Author: WILDER, Thornton
Title: Our Town
Description: Avon, CT, Limited Editions Club, 1974. First Limited Edition. hardcover. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11-3/4") bound in full brown corduroy with an oval leather spine label; 132 pages. With an introduction by Brooks Atkinson and a note by the author. Illustrated by Robert J. Lee with 4 double-page color plates,3 full-page monochrome plates, and 18 marginal sketches printed in a rosy terra-cotta. One of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist and by the author, the only limited edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play and certainly the easiest and least expensive way to obtain a signed copy. This copy is directly from the publisher's Connecticut office and is not numbered but is essentially untouched since publication. Ill.: Robert J. Lee. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase, as new After reading this play, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Wilder comparing OUR TOWN to Homer's ODYSSEY and Shakespeare's HAMLET, stating: "That an American of the present day can create with such delicacy and detachment touches the soul like a miracle.

Keywords: Limited Editions Club, Illustrated Books, High Spot, Drama, Signed, Modern Firsts, Thornton Wilder, Theater, Pulitzer Prize, Modern First Editions, Plays, Film Robert J. Lee Signed Illustrated Books Pulitzer Prize Literature: American


See more books from our catalog: Limited Editions Club