Description
The signed first edition, first issue of The Cabala by Thornton Niven Wilder, his first novel.
Octavo, [6], 230pp, [4]. Publisher’s patterned cloth over boards with a red cloth spine. Title in black on the spine. Top edge dyed blue. Faint dampstain along bottom edge of text block with no impact to text. The first issue, with the uncorrected “doctors” (p. 186), “conversation” (p. 196), and “explaininn” (p. 202). In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on the front flap, sunning along the spine, closed tear along front hinge, chipping along spine, a scarce example of this jacket.
(Edelstein A1.)
Signed by Wilder on the front free endpaper: “For Miss H_ / with all the best / wishes of her friend / Thornton Wilder.”
