Thornton Wilder. Stated first American edition. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1935. First printing, with "M-I" code on copyright page indicating December 1935 publication. Unclipped dust jacket (in a mylar wrapper) is in Very Good condition. Jacket has foxing and chipping on spine and edges. Publishers original price $2.50 still intact on inside flap. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition. No writing or markings found in the book, 304 pp.
Wilder’s fourth book is a comedic picaresque novel about a modern-day Don Quixote. The story follows George Marvin Brush, a traveling textbook salesman with unshakable moral convictions, often described as a modern-day Don Quixote. This was Wilders fourth novel, following his Pulitzer Prizewinning "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (1927) and preceding his acclaimed play "Our Town" (1938), which would win him a second Pulitzer.
Critic Edmund Wilson called the novel, Wilder's "finest to date." Perhaps most notably, Heaven's My Destination shows Wilder exploring the minimalist, action-based style he would later put to great effect in "Our Town."
