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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.
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.
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.