Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
New York: Coward McCann, 1938.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Thornton Wilder on title page in ink, inscribed to British barrister and book collector Ingle Barr. 128 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with blue title labels on upper board and spine. Near Fine with typical toning to cloth along edges, small ding to front board's top edge and corresponding area on dust jacket's front panel, spine sunned. Vintage booksellers' tickets to rear flap and paste down. The playwright's most enduring work and winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this beloved play about the fictional small American town Grover's Corner has become a staple for all sizes and scales of dramatic productions in the English language. Additionally, it served as the basis for a 1940 film with an original music score composed by Aaron Copland.
Price: $9,000