Lot 398
Lot 398
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder, 1927

Price Realised USD 3,500
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder, 1927

Price Realised USD 3,500
Price Realised USD 3,500
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder, 1927
WILDER, Thornton (1897-1975). The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

A fine, bright copy of the first American edition. Winner of Wilder's first of three Pulitzer Prizes, named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century and by Time Magazine as one of its 100 Best English-language novels from 1923-2005.

Octavo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket (very minor rubbing and edgewear, tiny nick to spine panel, stray pencil mark to rear panel); custom box.
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