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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by Robert J. Lee. Hardcover. Limited edition #203 of 2200 copies. 118pp. SIGNED by Wilder and illustrator Robert J. Lee on the colophon. Brown corduroy with applied morocco spine label, corduroy shows fingerprints and has mild rubbed spot top of spine. Spine sunned a bit. In very good slipcase that has light fading to edges.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Lee illustrated edition limited #484/2000 signed by Wilder and Lee, demy 4to (11.25 x 8.25 inches), pp. (1-6), 7-118, (2), 4 double page color plates including the title page after paintings by Robert J. Lee. Original brown corduroy with gilt lettered brown lettering piece in original title printed red-brown boards slipcase. Fine clean bright copy in near fine slipcase with small minor scuff. Sheets and palates clean, unmarked, complete. H10923 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. Our Town. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1974.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Editions Club New York 1974, 1974. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Robert J. Lee with four double-page color plates, three full-page monochrome plates, and eighteen marginal sketches. Limited to 2000 numbered copies signed by Lee. Also signed by the author Thorton Wilder. Intro. by Brooks Atkinson, note by the author. Bound in full brown corduroy, leather title label. With original Monthly Letter from the Club laid in. Book is in near fine condition, with the original glassine wrapper and a fine slipcase. The great American play of a turn of the century town in New Hampshire where all its citizens fail to realize they are alive when they are alive with its stage manager and its star Emily. who returns to earth for one day after her early death to see one day in her town one day of happiness. She returns as a phantom spirit who can not be seen by our towns people. Basis for the great film starring William Holden with music by Aaron Copland for orchestra now classic.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
WILDER, Thornton. OUR TOWN. Limited Editions Club, Avon, CT, 1974.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 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. Copy #720 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. Very mild sunning to the spine. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town. Limited Editions Club, Avon, CT, 1974.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 132 pages. 30 x 21.5 cm. Introduction by Brooks Atkinson, and a note by the author. Illustrated by Robert J. Lee's illustrations, four double page paintings: one for the title spread, one for each of the three Acts, plus three page monochromes, 18 marginal sketches printed in a rosy terra-cotta. Designed by Adrian Wilson, printed by Meriden Gravure Co. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Wilder and Lee. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 481. Bright, very fresh copy. Tan corduroy, spine bears an oval leather label stamped in gilt. Fine in fine dark salmon slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
WILDER, Thornton. OUR TOWN. Limited Editions Club, Avon, CT, 1974.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: 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. 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." Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase, as new
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.