Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge Of San Luis Rey. Albert and Charles, 1928.
Price: US$4.84 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 16th printing. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Thornton Niven Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$5.83 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1928. 15th printing. 235 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Cracking to front hinge. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean, with light sunning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$6.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Has 235 pages in a tight binding. Only very light edgewear to the cover which is soiled. Is illustrated with ten plates reminiscent of silhouettes.
Seller: Loyal Oak Books, Norton, OH, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton; Drevenstedt, Amy. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles, NY, 1928.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: Very good with bumped spine ends Good with some chips and short tears in edges. Former price sticker on front panel
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. ALBERT & CHARLES BONI 1928 MAR, NEW YORK, 1928.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The cover is somewhat worn, the spine is faded, front hinge is loose, fore edges are yellowed, and very slight foxing. DATE PUBLISHED: 1928 MAR EDITION: 12TH PRTG 235
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$11.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No DJ
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$12.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards with fair amount of rubbing and very light soiling. Spine tanned. Internally a VG+ copy; 8vo; 235 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: West Coast Bookseller, Moorpark, CA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 235p.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$16.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good inside with light handling. Boards have bumped corners and spine ends. Light staining, primarily to spine. See pictures for further description.
Seller: Dean's Books, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (12th ptg.) Slightly smaller, gray cloth with gilt design and illustration of mansion on front, light creases at spine top, tiny black spot at back left, illustration of Peru coast and sail ships with peach background inside covers and adjacent end papers, 235 stiff pages, light brown edge of stain at top of early pages. Good.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridges of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1928. Albert & Charles Boni. Decorative grey cloth with green lettering and designs on front and spine. Near Fine condition. Pages are neat and clean. Previous owner's name on blank page. 235pp. Decorative front and end papers.
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$20.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good inside and out for this age. Some random staining to boards and slight wear. Name plate glued inside front cover. See pictures for further details, description.
Seller: Dean's Books, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No d-j. Bookplate on inside cover. Top and bottom edges have a couple of marks. Spine slightly cocked.
Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 14th printing (1928). Gray cloth, pictorial endpapers illus. Jacket edge-worn, missing small pieces at head of spine and front panel.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 8 in. Gray cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers have a couple of very faint spots, mild wear to corners and spine ends. Binding tight. Gift message on 2nd blank. Text unnarked. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine fourteenth printing hardcover, 1928. Tasteful bookplate inside front cover. No writing or marks, binding tight. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. M00975
Seller: The Groaning Board, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, Inc., New York, NY, 1928.
Price: US$29.92 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 130 mm X 208 mm. 235 pages. Ex-library book. A newspaper clip of an articlle about the book has been glued on the free end paper. Fourteenth printing May 1928.
Seller: Librairie Le Nord, Hearst, ON, Canada
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$30.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Albert & Charles Boni, NEW YORK, 1928.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 17th printing. Pulitzer Prize winner for 1928, printed about a year after the first printing. In lightly soiled light gray boards stamped in green, with all flaws covered in a fine facsimile dust jacket ; illustrated map endpapers. Contents clean and unmarked.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$35.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eleventh Printing. Light Grey Cloth Covers with Green Lettering to Spine and Green Decoration with Title to front cover; covers are lightly to moderately soiled with a couple of darker soiled spots; lower edge of front cover and corners are lightly bumped; spine is soiled; Decorative endpapers with map of Ecuador; book interior is clean and tight; 12mo; 235 pages; illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt
Seller: Charing Cross Road Booksellers, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on that bridge. A friar who has witnessed the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of answer to the question of why each had to die. Thornton Niven Wilder (1897¿1975) won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize (the 1st of his 3 awards) for this, his second novel. The 1st edition of this novel was strikingly illustrated in the Art Deco style B&W by Amy Drevenstedt (1886-?). Hardcover has pale slate cloth boards with navy lettering & designs embossed into front & spine, but no DJ. Spine is sunburnt with tear at head. Book has square corners w/o wear. Interior is complete with binding broken p30, occasional smudges, but has no markings indicating ownership or study. This copy has sat on shelf with spine exposed to sunlight for most of it's existence. Copyright 1927. This copy printed by copyright holder in 1928. The printing history has the initial printing in November, 6 printings in December, 2 more in January with 2 more in February! This copy is from 11th printing in February, 1928 thus printed within the 1st 3 months of release. This is what a blockbuster's print-run series looks like. No ISBN, LCCN nor MSR.
Seller: Bargain Finders of Colorado, Simla, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on that bridge. A friar who has witnessed the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of answer to the question of why each had to die. Thornton Niven Wilder (1897?1975) won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize (the 1st of his 3 awards) for this, his second novel. The 1st edition of this novel was strikingly illustrated in the Art Deco style B&W by Amy Drevenstedt (1886-?). Hardcover has pale slate cloth boards with navy lettering & designs embossed into front & spine, but no DJ. Spine is sunburnt with tear at head. Book has square corners w/o wear. Interior is complete with occasional smudges, but has no markings within text, POS on front paste-down. This copy has sat on shelf with spine exposed to sunlight for most of it's existence. Copyright 1927. This copy printed by copyright holder in May, 1928. The printing history has the initial printing in November, 6 printings in December, 2 more in January with 2 more in February! This copy is from 14th printing in May, 1928 thus printed within the 1st 6 months of release. This is what a blockbuster's print-run series looks like. No ISBN, LCCN nor MSR.
Seller: Bargain Finders of Colorado, Simla, CO, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge od San Luis rey7. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$48.98 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 235 Pages, Text Clean, Book Tight, Dust Jacket is in a New Acid Free Mylar Protector, "VERY SCARCE IN A DUST JACKET", Condition of Book and Dust Jacket Fine/Fine.
Seller: Utah Book and Magazine, Salt Lake City Utah, UT, U.S.A.
WILDER, THORNTON. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. ALBERT & CHARLES BONI, NY, 1928.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: two chips & closed tear to the unclipped (2.50) dj. clean, unmarked copy.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Albert & Charles Boni, Inc., New York, 1928.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, fifteenth printing. Very Good without a dustjacket. Light brown hardcover binding with green decoration and black titles, decorated brown endpapers showing map of Ecuador and Peru and three sailing ships. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Black and white highly stylized frontispiece. 9 additional full-page plates. Thick paper. 235 pp. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1928. Scarce in dustjacket. The basis for the 1929 film starring Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Henry Walthall, Michael Vavitch, Emily Fitzroy, and Jane Winton, directed by Charles J. Brabin, and the 1944 film staring Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff, Francis Lederer, Alla Nazimova, Louis Calhern, and Blanche Yurka, directed by Rowland V. Lee. A tiny footbridge breaks, hurtling five people to their deaths in eighteenth-century Peru. Brother Juniper, who witnesses their deaths, searches for meaning. Considered one of the great short novels of the twentieth century. Spine darkened and bumped, bottom slightly frayed. Several signatures weak with spine showing, apparently a common problem with this book. Includes new FACSIMILE dust jacket. Very good in new dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. THE CABALA; By Thornton Niven Wilder. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, gray cloth with black lettering and black stamped delineation of St. Peter's basilica on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with stylized (woodblock?) depiction of St. Peter's & bridge, publisher's gray page tops, 230 pages. Thornton Niven Wilder (1897 - 1975) was an American playwright and prominent novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes-for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth - plus a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day. Author's debut novel, THE CABALA, was first published in 1926. Though this is a later printing, to have the author's SIGNATURE in his first novel is Very Special. Also, given its early date, to have so bright, clean, and nearly complete a pictorial dust jacket is remarkable. The dj has some wear and light soil plus chipping mainly along its spine.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert& Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$109.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by author. Acceptable to good condition. Previous owner has inscribed and attached a newspaper clipping. Part of cloth cover is stripped on the bottom; appears to possibly be tape removed. Spine and cover discolored and faded from age and shelf-wear. Upper text block darkened. Pages have slight yellow cast from age. Ask for pictures.Hardcover
Seller: San Marco Bookstore, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert and Charles Boni Inc., New York, 1928.
Price: US$111.60 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Nice copy of this classic novel that is included in the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century by both Time Magazine and Modern Library. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Unmarked, tight and square. This copy printed two months after the first. Map endpapers. Grey boards with green stamping and lettering. Price clipped jacket is the same as the first. One fairly small closed tear, moderate creasing and a small chip at bottom of rear panel. Jacket presents well and much better than normally seen. Hard to find. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
WilDER, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Fourteenth Printing. Octavo, original gray cloth over boards, decorated in blue, color illustrated dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, black and white frontispiece, this copy with publisher's wrap-around band advertizing Pulitzer Prize. Peru-set novel in which five people fall to their deaths when the titular bridge collapses, whereupon 'Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, searches into the lives of these victims for a revelation of God's intention in thus casting them at that moment into eternity;' winner of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize. Very Good, top cover corners bumped, in Very Good dust jacket, some chipping at top edge, chipping to top spine end of wrap-around band, darkening to spine, shelf wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
WILDER, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Fourteenth Printing. Octavo, original gray cloth over boards, decorated in blue, color illustrated dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, black and white frontispiece, this copy with publisher's wrap-around band advertizing Pulitzer Prize. Peru-set novel in which five people fall to their deaths when the titular bridge collapses, whereupon 'Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, searches into the lives of these victims for a revelation of God's intention in thus casting them at that moment into eternity;' winner of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize. Near Fine, a bit of foxing to spine cloth, in Very Good dust jacket, slight chipping to spine ends and flap corners, a couple small discolorations at rear panel, a couple small closed tears at top front panel, darkening to spine, shelf wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 17th printing. Titlepage with Boni imprint, but spine with Grosset & Dunlap imprint. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight rubbing and soiling. Signed by Thornton Wilder and dated in 1931.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni : New York, New York, 1928.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: This book is a first edition, 14th printing with dust jacket. Pulitzer winner. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.25" with 235 numbered pages. This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Minor sunning on head and tail on of spine. Minor staining to spine. Minor staining to all edges of textblock. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. Dust jacket is in good condition. Moderate chipping to both ends of spine. Minor chipping around all edges of jacket. Heavy sunning to spine. Original 2.50 price on front flap. The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N5-135).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: This book is a first edition, 14th printing with dust jacket. Pulitzer winner. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.25" with 235 numbered pages. This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping on both ends of spine. Minor scuffing and staining to all edges of textblock. Minor overbite to textblock. Dust jacket is in good condition. Minor chipping on both ends of spine. Moderate staining to both panels. Original 2.50 price on front flap. The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N5-134).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton.. The Bridge of San Luis Rey.. NY. Albert & Charles Boni. 1928., 1928.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Later Printing with "Thirteenth Printing, April, 1928" listed beneath the 1927 copyright date. In a later dustjacket as well. With 10 full-page plate illustrations by Amy Drevenstedt. Signed presentation in brown ink: "For Mrs. Burr: with all the best wishes of Thornton Wilder (underscored)" at the top of the title page. Title page ruled in green and printed in black and green. VG/VG- in finely woven beige cloth stamped brightly in green on the front panel and the spine. A very clean, tight, handsome copy throughout with some darkening to the spine.With pictorial endpapers depicting part of Ecuador and Peru and various sailing ships. In a later edition dustjacket (156th thousand) with the original price of $2.50 at the top of the inside front flap. With a very colorful and attractive front panel. Fading to the dustjacket spine and a fingernail-sized chip missing from the rop right corner of the dustjacket spine. Small v-shaped piece missing at the top of the rear panel. Later Printing with "Thirteenth Printing, April, 1928" listed beneath the 1927 copyright date. In a later dustjacket as well.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Listed as Eighth Printing on copyright page. Signed by Wilder on half-title page and typed, signed letter is laid in. Spine is mildly darkened. Slight wear to head and tail of spine. Black speck of a stain on front board. Previous owner's name written on first free end page. Jacket has a darkened spine. Gap in material in two locations on spine. Lightened material on two sections of spine. Two, small chips on top edge of front panel. Four, small chips on bottom edge of front panel. Two, small, closed tears on bottom edge of front panel. Three, small, closed tears on top edge of front panel. Two, tiny chips on head of spine. Small area of pencil marking on top edge of back panel. Several, tiny closed tears along top edge of back panel. Closed tear on bottom edge of back panel. Small chip on bottom edge of back panel. Light wear along back edge of spine, and back fore-edge. Otherwise both, book and jacket are in very good condition, and in a mylar wrapper.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Chicago Signed Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.