[Signed] [First Edition] Heaven's My Destination Wilder, Thornton [Used - Near Fine] [Hardcover]

Octavo, vi, [2], 304pp, [2]. Gray cloth with title in black on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page and publisher's "M-I" code. Solid text block, faint toning to cloth along edges, a near fine example. Bookplate of Ingle Barr on the front pastedown. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, chipping to top edge, short closed tear along rear panel, a near fine example. (Martine, 257) Inscribed on the title page: "Ingle Barr - some passages of an autobiography by Thornton Wilder." Inscribed to Ingle Barr, the noted California book collector. Barr corresponded directly with Thornton Wilder and assembled an important library of presentation copies from leading twentieth-century authors. Her collection was sold by Sotheby Parke Bernet in 1973. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an American playwright and novelist renowned for exploring universal themes of human connection and resilience. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for drama with Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), and one for fiction with The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927).