Wilder, Thornton. (1897-1975) . "Our Town" - First Edition. New York: Coward McCann. 1938. First.
Hardcover in dustjacket. 8vo. 128 pp. Original brown cloth, blue paper labels to spine and front cover, illustrated endpapers. Cloth slightly sunned on edges, internally fine. Jacket slightly clipped but still showing full price ($2.00), extremities a little chipped and worn. Overall a near fine, nicely preserved copy of Wilder's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning work about an American town.
Lauded by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", Our Town tells the story of the fictional New England small town Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913. The play's style is meta-theatrical: the setting is a theatre, the main character is a stage manager, and the use of sets and props is minimal. It was first performed at McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey, on 22 January 1938, and opened on Broadway on 4 February. Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the same year.
Wilder, Thornton. (1897-1975) . "Our Town" - First Edition. New York: Coward McCann. 1938. First.
Hardcover in dustjacket. 8vo. 128 pp. Original brown cloth, blue paper labels to spine and front cover, illustrated endpapers. Cloth slightly sunned on edges, internally fine. Jacket slightly clipped but still showing full price ($2.00), extremities a little chipped and worn. Overall a near fine, nicely preserved copy of Wilder's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning work about an American town.
Lauded by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", Our Town tells the story of the fictional New England small town Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913. The play's style is meta-theatrical: the setting is a theatre, the main character is a stage manager, and the use of sets and props is minimal. It was first performed at McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey, on 22 January 1938, and opened on Broadway on 4 February. Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the same year.