Sale 2462 - 19th & 20th Century Literature, November 24, 2017

293 c   WHITMAN, WALT. Passage to India. 8vo, original pale-green glazed printed wrappers, recased with wrappers stabilized and backed on paper, light edgewear, small chip to backstrip foot, fore-edges uncut, ownership inscription dated 22 July 1894 inked to front wrapper (few other indications, one partly effaced), partly unopened; penciled note at end; preserved in cloth chemise and 1 / 4 morocco slipcase. Washington, D.C.: Printed for Whitman by J.S. Redfield, 1871 [2,500/3,500] first edition , first printing , first issue , retaining the scarce fragile wrappers . Later issues and/or printings were combined with Leaves of Grass. Neither ABPC nor Rare Book Hub trace any copies at auction since 1980. A remarkably well-preserved example. Myerson A5.1.a. 294 c   WILDER, THORNTON. Our Town. 8vo, publisher’s olive cloth with blue and white paper labels to spine and front cover, faded to brown at extremities and spine; dust jacket, spine panel tanned with rubbing to tips just touching two letters and small hole at center, price-clipped. first edition . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. NewYork: Coward McCann, (1938) [250/350] 293