The Merchant of Yonkers: A Farce in Four Acts

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); tan cloth-covered boards, with title labels on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 180pp. Light sunning to spine and board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, tanned, with 0.5" chip to lower spine panel, and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Very Good. Expanded from John Oxenford's A Day Well Spent (1935) and Johann Nestroy's He'll Have Himself a Good Time (1842), Wilder's adaptation continues Nestroy's drama and focuses on a New York businessman. [84211].