E-074: Coward-Mccann. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Coward, McCann, New York. 1928. 149 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. #309 of a limited edtion of 750 copies. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in blue cloth with white titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. “It is a discouraging business to be an author at sixteen years of age, ” wrote Thornton Wilder at the ripe old age of thirty-one. “Such an author is all aspiration and no fulfillment. He is drunk on an imaginary kinship with the writers he most admires, and yet his poor overblotted notebooks show nothing to prove to others, or to himself, that the claim is justified. ” Precocious teenagers—and he includes his younger self among them—eagerly assemble the basics (“especially the title”) of a long book, or they spend hours “adjusting the tables of contents of works they have neither the perseverance nor the ability to execute. ” E-074; 6.8 X 5.0 X 0.9 inches; 149 pages; Signed by Author .

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Bookseller: Last Exit Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 56851
Title: The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays
Author: Wilder, Thornton
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Coward-Mccann
Place of Publication: E-074
Date Published: 1928

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