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WILDER, Thornton Niven. The bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green & co, London, 1927.
Price: US$7.63 + shipping
Description: Reprint, 1929. No inscriptions or annotations; binding tight; dust jacket worn and browned, with loss to spine & short tears; dj not price-clipped Used - Good. VG hardback in Poor dustjacket
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Wilder, Thornton. BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. , 1927.
Price: US$11.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1927. Longmans, Green and Co. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, blue boards. Mild foxing. 8x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge Of San Luis Bay. Longmans, Green And Co Ltd, 1927.
Price: US$22.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Third impression. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Previous owner name to ffep. DJ with some edge wear, tears and sunned spine.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
WILDER, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green,, 1927.
Price: US$27.06 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 140 pages, a near fine hbk, publisher's blue cloth with gold gilt lettering. Former owner's name on ffep.
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom
Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Longmans, Green & Co., LONDON, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wilder's acclaimed second novel, winner of 1928 Pulitzer. Story of interrelated people who die after collapse of rope bridge in Peru and the events which led them there, told from perspective of a friar who seeks a cosmic answer to their deaths. Moderate foxing to front and rear free endpapers. Former owner's name to front free endpaper. Bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. Light sunning to spine and extremities. Minor bumps to all four corners. Light soiling to foot and fore edge of text block. Light age-tanning to extremities of text block.
Seller: The Sensible Magpie, Creswell, OR, U.S.A.
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green & Co Ltd., 1927.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Marked and worn boards have bumped corners and are culing a little at the edges, page edges tanned, foxing, owner's inscription, penil marks and a Times Book Club label inside the rear boards. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.
Seller: High Street Books, New Mills, United Kingdom
WILDER, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, London, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition. Hardcover. This edition precedes the American edition. A very good copy in blue cloth boards with some light bumping to the corners, some toning to the endpapers and a former owner signature to the front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Still a pleasing copy of this Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
WILDER, Thornton. The bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green, 1927.
Price: US$54.52 + shipping
Description: 1st UK edition, in blue cloth with gilt. Internally VG, with clean text in firm binding; cloth on spine a little discoloured, with wear & tiny loss at head, & worn gilt Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1927.
Price: US$56.44 + shipping
Description: A very smart, first edition copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey', by renowned author Thornton Wilder. This novel tells the story of a fictional bridge collapse in Peru, between Cuzco and Lima, in 1714. Several people die in this accident, and a Franciscan friar who witnesses this tragedy just before he was about to cross the bridge himself contemplates the meaning of this events and seeks to discover a greater meaning behind it.This work won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 after worldwide acclaim.Renowned author Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an American playwright and novelist who won three Pulitzer Prizes over the course of his lifetime, one for this work, one for his playOur Town, and one for his playThe Skin of Our Teeth. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Spine is slightly faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$59.34 + shipping
Description: 4to.; VII-140 pp. Primera edición Encuadernación original en tela estampada.
Seller: Hesperia Libros, Zaragoza, Spain
WILDER, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green and Company, London, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing. Very good with some light fading on the boards, endpapers are browned, in a very good dustwrapper with loss of paper at the spine ends, light wear at the corners, a little age-toning.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, London, 1927.
Price: US$497.41 + shipping
Description: Pp. viii+142(last blank, colophon), the title page printed in blue & black; small demy 8vo; dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt, boards lightly rubbed and with a few small edge bruises, the spine slightly faded, gilt lettering dulled; top edges blue; book label of David Levine, Sydney, plus bookplate of W. H. Smith & Son's Circulating Library on the upper pastedown, hinges starting, free endpapers lightly offset, a few leaves faintly creased, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., London, 1927. First edition, preceding the American edition by a few days. *Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and the basis for several film and theatre adaptations. Loosely inserted is a flyer for a talk by Thornton Wilder, 'An American in Britain' on Monday, 29th September [1941] in The Victoria Halls. Printed on yellow paper, the flyer is signed by Wilder on the reverse: 'Regards of Thornton Wilder, [Helensborough?] Sept. 1941'. Wilder went to England in September 1941 to attend the 17th Congress of International PEN. He addressed the opening session on September 11.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longman's Green & Co, 1927.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Laid in is an approximate 3"x5" slip of paper inscribed ("Best wishes of"), SIGNED by Thorton Wilder, and followed by "Washington D.C. April 1948". The slip has a horizontal crease above the inscription and is in very good/near fine condition. The volume has light offsetting on the endpapers from the pastedowns and pages 13 & 15 have 3/8" jagged tears on the top edge (possibly a page cutting glitch, because the tear on page 15 does not go through on the verso, page 16). The unclipped dust jacket is missing 3/8" on the spine crown, has a sunned spine, a 1/8" chip on the top of the front panel, and shallow chips on the corners and spine tail. The jacket, sleeved in mylar, is also rubbed and age toned on the flap tops. This is the true first of this pulitzer prize novel, as it precedes the US edition.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green and Company, London, 1927.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing; British edition precedes the American. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Light bumping to bottom inner corner of pages and boards. Dust jacket is lightly edge worn with shallow loss at the base of the spine; toning to spine panel. A very presentable copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, rarely seen in such nice condition.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green & Co Ltd, 1927.
Price: US$737.54 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Description : 1/1 UK This book is number 37 in The Modern Library top 100 Novels of the 20th Century. Condition : An exceptionally clean textblock in excellent condition. Binding : Bound in full mid blue goatskin, gilt all edges. Handsewn endbands and light blue paper endpapers. Gold lettering to spine and upper board. Contained in a patterned paper slipcase. Size : 205mm x 150mm
Seller: Stephen Conway Booksellers, Halifax, United Kingdom
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1927.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. (Preceded the American edition by a few days.) vii, 140 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, slightly chipped at extremities and a little toned. An attractive copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$808.08 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in blue and black, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, neat pencilled name on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, upper board blocked with author's signature in gilt, gilt back, blue top, uncut, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip and with one short tear at corner. Precedes the US edition by a few days. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Longmans, Green & Company, 1927.
Price: US$1099.00 + shipping
Description: THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, Longmans, Green & Company, 1927, first edition, some foxing and/or off-setting to the end-papers and paste-downs, else just about fine in like dust-wrapper with some closed tears. Very nice. PULITZER PRIZE winner. Precedes the American edition. Along with THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, Boni, 1929, vg in wraps with decoration and covers by Rockwell Kent.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Longmans Green & Co. Ltd, London, 1927.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1927 Longmans, Green & Company TRUE FIRST EDITION, which preceded the US First Edition by a matter of days. A VG+/VG copy of this rare first made even more so by having a splendid **HANDWRITTEN SIGNED LETTER** by Mr. Wilder. The HB is very clean and tight with just some browning on the end pages. The unclipped DJ has a small piece missing from the upper spine end, not affecting the title. There are a few tiny other chips now in mylar and protected. A very strong copy and a wonderful combo! BONUS BOOK: A very early ex--library copy of "Our Town" which appears to be dated from April 5, 1938, two months after its Broadway premiere. Movie History Facts: Adapted for the screen three times: 1929 MGM Silent Film with Lili DAmita & Ernest Torrence (plus the legendary Lola Montes as a Spanish dancer) 1944 United Artists B&W Film with Lynn Bari & Akim Tamiroff 2004 New Line Cinema Color Film with Gabriel Byrne, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Bates, F. Murray Abraham, Geraldine Chaplin, and Emilie Dequenne ***Bren-Books specializes in rare and hard-to-find 1st Editions, many turned into film & TV, many signed!***
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
WILDER, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1927.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: Precedes the American edition by a few days. Winner of Wilder's first of three Pulitzer Prizes. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the the front endpaper: "For Mrs. Isaacs/with the affection/of one of her/boys/Thornton/Lawrenceville/November/1927." The recipient appears to be Edith Isaacs, editor of THEATRE ARTS magazine, whom Wilder befriended in the early 1920s while teaching at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. Isaacs offered much encouragement to Wilder, including recommending that he apply for a Guggenheim Fellowship in order to finish THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, for which he was declined. Briefest of wear to the spine tips of the book. Dustwrapper with a long closed tear along the front flap joint (neatly masked by the mylar protector), chips at the spine tips but not affecting the lettering, and general edgewear with the spine darkened. About Fine in a scarce, Very Good example of the dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
WILDER, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., London, 1927.
Price: US$4375.00 + shipping
Description: Precedes the American edition by a few days, of this winner of Wilder's first of three Pulitzer Prizes. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Mrs. Edward J. Pearson/with the regard of/Thornton Wilder/New York/Jan 16, 1931." Fine in a scarce, close to Fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the head of the slightly darkened spine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.