Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
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: 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 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$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.