"TIME PASSES SO SLOWLY HERE THAT IT STANDS STILL, THAT'S WHAT'S THE TROUBLE"

WILDER, Thornton. The Long Christmas Dinner and Other One Act Plays. New Haven and New York: Yale University Press / Coward-McCann, 1931. Octavo, original half cream paper, patterned paper boards, uncut. $300.

Signed limited edition, number 525 of 525 copies signed by Thornton Wilder, of this collection of one-act plays.

The title play, which blends 90 years of one family's Christmas dinners into one scene, was made into an opera in 1963 with music by Paul Hindemith. Without original slipcase.

Fine condition.