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Thornton Niven Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1929.
Price: US$6.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1929. 235 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Corners are dogeared in places. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 265 S.; 19cm Zustand: Leineneinband ohne Schutzumschlag, Namenseintrag auf Titelseite (Albert ??ilwe) --- Inhalt: Die Brücke von San Luis Rey (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) war Thornton Wilders zweiter Roman. Das 1927 erstmals erschienene Werk gewann 1928 den Pulitzer-Preis; das Magazin Time zählt den Roman zu den besten 100 englischsprachigen Romanen, die zwischen 1923 und 2005 veröffentlicht wurden. Der Roman wurde schon 1929, dann wieder 1944 und 2004 verfilmt. Das Werk erzählt die Geschichte von fünf Hauptfiguren, die beim Einsturz einer Hängebrücke in den Anden auf dem Weg zwischen Lima und Cusco 1714 den Tod finden. Der Roman folgt den Lebensläufen der Hauptfiguren und sucht nach einer Antwort auf die Frage, ob der Einsturz der Brücke und der Tod der Menschen im Zusammenhang mit ihrem Vorleben steht, ob also Zufall oder Schicksal ihren Untergang verursacht hat. [wikipedia] F1-7 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 300
Seller: Antiquariat Biebusch, Lilienthal, Germany
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1929.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition of which this is no. 63. Signed by both Thornton Wilder and the illustrator Rockwell Kent on the last page. Lacks the slipcase and the set of proofs (which came only with the first hundred copies)). Good. Boards with wear at corners and spine-ends. Small area of loss to cloth at head of spine. Previous owner bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Persistent foxing throughout - heavier on the first few pages. Binding is sound. 120 pages.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 120 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in light green cloth gilt text on brown spine label and illustrations on both covers. Housed in publisher's Good plus blue slipcase. Slipcase has mild edgewear and shelfwear and slight tearing to head edge of spine. Boards have sunning to both covers and spine. Textblock has light foxing to some pages and to edges. Signed by Thornton Wilder and Rockwell Kent on opposite of dedication page. RWO. 1371855. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1929.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Italian Brother Juniper, in Peru in 1714 converting heathens, witnesses the seemingly random deaths of five people in a bridge disaster and attempts to determine 'why THOSE five?' Published in 1927, the book was a best-seller, winning the Pulitzer prize in 1928 and first filmed in 1929, and is here offered by the original publisher in a limited edition, illustrated with seven nearly full page color lithographs by Rockwell Kent; number 117 of 1100 printed, SIGNED by Wilder and Kent on the last page. Hardcover in slipcase, as pictured; book shows some rubbing & spotting, minor tanning to endsheets; slipcase a bit rubbed & chipped. Size: Quarto
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1929.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition of 1,100 copies, of which this is no. 892. Signed by both Thornton Wilder and the illustrator Rockwell Kent at the back. Good. The leather title label on the spine is largely chipped off. Boards a bit toned at edges and on spine. Some browning/foxing to blank endpapers, contents clear and bright. Housed in a Good, quite sound slipcase, which is also numbered "892" at bottom of spine. 120 pages.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1929.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Sm 4to. Paper covered boards with wraparound Rockwell Kent illustration, and gilt lettering on vellum spine label. Gilt top stain. 123 pages. Limited/numbered signed: 674/1100. SIGNED by both Thornton Wilder and Rockwell Kent on the illustration facing the limitation page. No other names. Lacking the publisher's slip case. Collectable copy of the Limited, Signed edition issued in 1929.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$265.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Thornton Wilder and Rockwell Kent on the colophon. Limited edition, hand-numbered 89 of "nineteen hundred twenty-nine, eleven hundred copies". Illustrated in color. Pictorial yellow cloth binding with a leather spine label, and gilt tops. Label is chipped at the bottom. The edges and spine are lightly rubbed and fraying, with mild occasional wear. Bookplate on the ffep. Tight, crisp, and unmarked interior.
Seller: The BOOKtique, Lake Oswego, OR, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY [Rockwell Kent]. Albert & Charles Boni: New York, 1929.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Color illus. by Rockwell Kent, 10.5 x 7", pict green cloth, 120pp. Covers have light soiling and spotting, spine sunned, minor scuffing to leather spine label else good to very good condition. LIMITED TO 1100 COPIES, THIS IS NUMBER 328 AND SIGNED BY BOTH THORNTON WILDER AND ROCKWELL KENT. SCARCE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, original decorative cloth, glassine dust jacket, and slipcase, 120, [3] pp, illustrated title-page and 6 near full page color lithographs by Kent. Number 825 of the limited edition of 1000 signed by Wilder and Kent on the lithographic plate facing the limitation page. Foxing to covers and text block edges, slight spine lean, glassine torn and chipped, slipcase with mild foxing and wear.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1929.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, signed by Wilder and Kent, limited no. 571/1100, has very slight skew to spine, very slight bumps to spine ends and corners with boards at spine ends starting to peek through, light sunning to spine, and some rubbing to covers with slight soiling, otherwise a solid Good+ copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
WILDER, THORNTON.. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1929.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: This is copy #599/1100, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR. Housed in acustom slipcase with only minor wear. 120pp. This was Wilder's second novel, after "The Cabala" in 1926. The book was first published in 1927, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Literature for the book in 1928 (the first of three he would win). Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was an American painter, printmaker, book illustrator, writer, adventurer. Size: Imperial Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, NY, 1929.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Textblock very clean, unmarked and tight; Signed by Thornton Wilder and Rockwell Kent on the full-color lithograph at the rear, facing the limitation page; The boards are lightly edge-rubbed and minimally sunned; The spine is sunned to a light brown with the leather spine title complete and bright; This is copy 516 of 1100 and is protected by the original clear, five-mil mylar jacket. Lacks the slipcase. 123p. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1929.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10.75" x 7.5" SIGNED by author and illustrator. Limited Edition number 580 of 929. Wilder's classic tale-- on July 20, 1714, "the finest bridge in all Peru" collapses and five people die. Signed by Wilder and Kent on the full-color lithograph at the rear, facing the limitation page; Light discoloration to spine. Light foxing to back cover. Includes slipcase. Textblock clean, unmarked and tight.
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton Niven. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1929.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Kent, Rockwell. No. 606 of 1100 copies, signed by Wilder and Kent. Illustrated with 7 colour lithographs including title-page by Rockwell Kent. 120 pp. Printed on Vidalon, designed and made at the Pynson Press. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Wilder's classic tale of five random individuals who meet their deaths together in 18th century Peru; a splendid example of bookmaking by Elmer Adler's Pynson Press. It also was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis for 3 movie versions, in 1929, 1944 and 2004. Original specially designed decorated pictorial cloth designed by Kent, leather spine label, t.e.g. In blue paper slipcase Illustrated with 7 colour lithographs including title-page by Rockwell Kent. 120 pp. Printed on Vidalon, designed and made at the Pynson Press. 1 vols. Tall 8vo No. 606 of 1100 copies, signed by Wilder and Kent.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some tanning to the clith and spine, else.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed on Vidalon watermarked paper; book designed & made by the Pynson Printers, under the direction of Elmer Adler; hand-set in Baskerville type cast at the Village Foundry of F. W. Goudy, and bound in a specially designed fabric. 7 1/2 inches x 10 7/8 in., half-title; Rockwell Kent designed title-page printed in colors; dedication; contents. 120 pp. + numbered colophon page + color-printed signed page; five color illustrations, and a color title-page and the final, color-printed signed page, designed by Rockwell Kent, numbered colophon page with Kent design, and other decorations. Bound in Rockwell Kent designed color-printed cloth over boards, with a mounted leather title label, with gilt titling, on the spine, top-edge gilt; in the publisher's dark blue-gray paper-covered slipcase, with the inked number at base of spine. The spine shows some age-related tanning, as do the hinges and the edges. Light rubbing to the leather label; the slipcase is fair, showing wear to the paper, a one-inch chip to the upper edge, and general wear.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 1100 copies signed by both Wilder and Kent, this being copy no. 170; small folio, pp. 120, [3]; illustrated title-p. and 6 near full-p. color lithographs by Kent; original pictorial cloth also by Kent, leather label on spine lettered in gilt, publisher's slipcase; spine slightly discolored, slipcase a little soiled, else about fine throughout.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 120 pp. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Small folio, publisher's illustrated cloth with leather label. First illustrated edition; No. 807 of 1100 copies, signed by Wilder and Kent. Slightly cocked; cloth a little browned; some chipping to leather label. A very good copy. This copy is inscribed by Thornton Wilder to actress Ruth [Gordon] on the front free endpaper in 1933.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.