The Long Christmas Dinner, & Other Plays In One Act

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1931. First Edition. Near fine in red cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/8 by 6 1/4 inches with the cloth on the spine slightly faded and what appears to be old tape stains on the first and last free end pages which… Read more about this item

Signed by author. #353 of 525 limited edition, first edition, hardcover. Lacks glassine jacket and slipcase. Boards show modest uniform shelf wear. Interior has pencil note from prior book seller otherwise no other markings. Rear past down is foxed. Many pages are uncut. Binding tight, pages white. At least very good or better. A very nice copy. Please see scans… Read more about this item

New York/New Haven: Coward-McCann/Yale University Press, 1931. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good only dustwrapper with edgewear and tears. Only 5,900 copies printed. These one-act plays represent Wilder's first attempt at a colloquial style and his first successful work for the theatre. This copy is wonderfully INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author with a quote… Read more about this item

New York / New Haven: Coward-McCann / Yale University, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Bookplate of a Grolier Club member on the front pastedown. Pages lightly toned, light wear and toning to the spine and board edges, a very good or better copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Wilder on a tipped-in slip (presumably by the original… Read more about this item

New York / New Haven: Coward-McCann / Yale University, 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto with unopened pages. Near fine with toning to the spine in very good slipcase a touch toned and with sizable ink stain at the bottom but otherwise quite sound. One of 500 Signed and numbered copies: this is copy 231. … Read more about this item

NY: Coward-McCann, 1931, 1931. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., publisher's original stamped brown cloth binding, with the original DJ, DJ not price clipped. Inscribed on the front blank endleaf "For Martin & Mrs. Seluitze (?) 1931 with all the best of their friend Thornton - University of Chicago March 1932." Spine slightly sunned otherwise VG, DJ… Read more about this item

New York: Yale University Press / Coward McCann. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1931. Hardcover. #240 of 500 copies signed by Wilder. Former owners inscription plus program of 1962 . Sm 4to., 122 pp., Glassine dust jacket in cardboard slipcase .

NY: Coward - McCann, Inc.. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Rust cloth titled in silver gilt. Stated first printing, November 1931. Inscribed to the ffep by Wilder. Cloth lightly sunned to spine. The DJ in mylar is chipped to edges, lightly rubbed with small hole mid spine. ; Large 8vo 9"… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1964. Softcover. Very Good. First Harper Colophon Books edition. Introduction by John Gassner. Trade paperback. xx, 113pp. Pen marginalia on a few pages, light foxing on topedge, about very good.

New York/New Haven: Coward-McCann/Yale University Press. Good+ in Poor dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [book is shelfworn, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine; the jacket is a real mess, in three pieces (held together, albeit not very well, by a new mylar jacket cover) with extensive chipping, most of the spine missing, etc.]. INSCRIBED by… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931. 8vo., [x], [1]-122 pp., title-page printed in red and black. Original red cloth with lettering in silver to backstrip, top-edge red, original silver, black , and red dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is only partially intact with some of the upper and lower cover torn away, top-edge of the upper board has… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1931. 8vo., [x], [1]-122 pp., title-page printed in red and black. Original red cloth with lettering in silver to backstrip, top-edge red, original silver, black , and red dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is only partially intact with some of the upper and lower cover torn away. Inscribed by the author to Isabel Hoffman. § First edition. A… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 122; orig. terracotta cloth, spine lettered in silver; spine slightly discolored, page margins browning; good and sound, or better. Enhanced by a presentation on the title-p. "For Mrs. Adams with the devoted regards of Thornton Wilder, New Haven, June 1938."

New York: Coward-McCann, 1931. First Trade Edition. First printing. Large octavo (24.5cm.); original cloth in silver decorative dust jacket, red topstain; [8],122pp. Wear to jacket extremities with short closed tears and shallow chips, old tape repair to verso not visible to exterior. About Very Good and sound.

New Haven / New York: Yale University Press / Coward-McCann , 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Decorative paper over boards, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; 8vo; pp. [9], 122. Number 225 from a limited edition of 525 copies (25 HC), signed by Wilder on the limitation page. Spine just a bit tanned; two tiny specks of… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, 1931. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, trade edition. Slight soiling on boards, about fine in very good or better Arthur Hawkins-designed dustwrapper with a couple of shallow chips and short tears, and a crease on the front flap. A nice example of the fragile jacket.

NY/New Haven: Coward-McCann / Yale University, 1931. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, #38/525 copies, Numbered and SIGNED by Wilder on a leaf tipped onto the copyright page, bound in faux-vellum spine, flowered paper covered boards. Mild foxing to a few pages, otherwise clean. A one act play whose action spans 90 years in the home of one… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. 113pp. Edges lightly foxed, light offsetting on the endleaves, a bit of fading on the cover, very good in a spine-toned, about very good dust jacket foxed on the lower panel.

New York:: Coward-McCann,, 1931.. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.. 1" tear to the bottom of the title page; a little sunned at the edges of the cloth and text; in a jacket with a few small chips and light use. . Tall 8vo,.

NY: Coward - McCann, 1931. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Coward - McCann, 1931, first printing. 8vo., 122pp. Red cloth with gilt spine titles, 2-color title page. Very good in good minus dust jacket with several chips and two old internal repairs. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.