WILDER, Thornton.

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The Angel That Troubled The Waters and Other Plays. First trade edition, inscribed by the author, "For Jack Thompson, with the best wishes of Thornton Wilder, Feb 1930, Grosse Point". Thompson's engraved bookplate is on the front pastedown. This is number 1,694 of 2,000 trade copies issued signed by the publisher, collecting 16 of Wilder's experimental "three-minute plays".This copy was acquired from the collection of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections.

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