THE EIGHTH DAY by WILDER, Thornton - 1967

NY: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 435. One of 500 copies printed on special paper, specially bound and signed by the author. This is copy # 2, with the bookplate of Cass Canfield, a publisher's greeting card (signed "Evan" and "Cass" laid in and a nice inscription on the title page by the author: "For Cass (in red) who has followed and encouraged this work from the beginning - with a long admiration and indebtedness and friendship. Ever devotedly Thornton New York, March 21, 1967" A fine copy in publisher's box. Inscribed from the author to his editor at Harper. Canfield was interested in the young author, who, at the time, was under contract with Boni and Liveright. It was Canfield who brought him to Harper. Evan (Thompson) was Cass's valued associate at Harper. Other than an inscribed copy to Wilder's wife, this is probably the most valued association copy one could get of Wilder's last novel. A novel which begins as a murder mystery and ends a long meditation on the meaning of life.