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  First Edition of Thornton Wilder's The Merchant of Yonkers; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication

  WILDER, Thornton.

  The Merchant of Yonkers.

  New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939.

  First edition, inscribed by Wilder in the year of publication, the year after he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Our Town. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Julie, coeur d'or with the lasting regard of Thornton, New York April 1939." Also laid into is a ten line note signed Wilder. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Donald McKay. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

  Price: $2,800.00     Item Number: 137443

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