Resultados de búsqueda: bridge san luis rey de wilder

John Anthony Miller Studio, 2011. A restored facsimile dust jacket for the 1st edition published by Charles Boni in 1927 -The jacket was restored by artist John Anthony Miller and archival ink and special paper were used. Jacket comes trimmed and enclosed in a Mylar jacket protector, ready to put on the book. As in all our facsimile dust jackets, the verso of the jacket has an affixed label, stating such, signed by the artist-restorer John Anthony Miller..

NY:: Criterion Books,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. B008N0FDAQ . Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. First edition thus. INSCRIBED by the author in 1962. Small glue mark on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear with a few small chips, upper corner of front flap and lower corner of rear flap is clipped) dust jacket. .

NY, LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, 1962, 1962. SIGNED BY CHARLOT (ILLUSTRATOR); #40/1500; SLIPCASE FIRST EDITION THUS FINE. Signed by Author(s). F.

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1929. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very good +. Rockwell Kent. 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.

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, Boni, 1929, first American illustrated edition, a bright fine copy in a glassine dust-wrapper with some chipping in a near fine slip-case. 1/1,100 copies SIGNED by the author and artist. PULITZER PRIZE winner. 

Longman's Green & Co, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Signed. 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.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927 1st ed/6th printing Dec 1927, long inscription on the first title page in author's handwriting and signed by Author and Biller Houser to a Helen Lord, in the inscription gives a hint to who these people were, they were fellow teachers at an all male prep school named The Lawerenceville School in NJ, were Mr Wilder taught FRENCH, and had close ties to Princeton. BOOK: is very clean and the sections(signatures) are still very well bound,but the webbing between them is showing at some places, still very secure and held together tightly,other than that appears to be better than the Good+ I rate it.. included is a 9th printing,with its dustjacket which has chips and darken spine,maybe use it to protect the good one.

London: Longmans, Green, 1929. First edition thus with the Leighton woodcuts. Book about fine, dust jacket with soil and faded spine, but complete. First edition thus with the Leighton woodcuts. 8vo. ix, 140p. Illustrated by Clare Leighton with 16 lovely tipped-in woodcuts. Red cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt facsimile of Wilder's signature on the upper cover. Signed and dated by Clare Leighton January 30, 1930. And with an ALs laid in to Mrs. Elmhurst (?), dated New York City. Nov. 15: "Forgive the delay in answering your letter. It was belatedly forwarded to me out here - My agents are The Redfern Gallery, 27 Old Bond St. They have a fairly representative set of my work, at all prices. It's nice to hear of ones admirers. I hope you will find something you really like. Yours truly, Clare Leighton

NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. The true first trade edition with the title page printed in green and black. Books shows a bit of shelf wear to bottom edge. Fitted with a later state dustwrapper (published in 1928) that maintains the $2.50 price but has a list of four books on the back panel that were published by Boni in that year). The book is tight and clean and the dustwrapper shows well in mylar. Signed by the author on a bookplate that is laid in . . . . AUTHOR-SIGNED Bookplate. First American Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+ (later state). Illus. by Amy Drevenstedt.

New York:: Albert and Charles Boni,, 1929.. First illustrated edition; No. 807 of 1100 copies, signed by Wilder and Kent.. publisher's illustrated cloth with leather label.. Slightly cocked; cloth a little browned; some chipping to leather label. A very good copy.. Small folio,. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. This copy is inscribed by Thornton Wilder to actress Ruth [Gordon] on the front free endpaper in 1933.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First. hardcover. fine. 8vo, re-bound in full green morocco with a cloth inset from the original pictorial cover. N.Y.: A.&C. Boni, 1927. First Edition .<br/><br/> Presentation copy, " For John, with all my best, Thornton/ Davis, April 1928" . Fine copy of this Pulitzer Prize novel.<br/><br/>

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Boards with some overall uniform light soiling and edgewear, thus very good or a bit better in good only dustwrapper with amateur tape repair to the inside of the jacket, toning and moderate edgewear. Housed in an older worn drop front custom case. Inscribed by the author: "For Dick - With all the best wishes of Thornton Wilder." Wilder's best-known novel, a carefully interwoven story of a priest's attempt to find divine providence in the collapse of an 18th century Peruvian bridge. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The first edition is uncommon inscribed.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good +. Illustrated cloth with lettering and detail stamped in green and black on spine; illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed and dated (March 1929) on the title-page, from Wilder to Ashton L. Carr. Boards faintly rubbed; very light scuffing at spine tips and corners. Dust jacket sunned along spine and edges; some light chipping and creasing along edges; closed tear on rear panel. In custom chemise and slipcase. The Bradley Martin copy, with his bookplate.

New York: A. & C. Boni, 1927. First American Edition; preceded by the English edition and a "preliminary" issue of the American edition with a slightly different title page. Very good in a chipped dust jacket. Signed by Wilder on the title page. Laid into this copy is an excellent two page holograph letter, signed by Wilder, New Haven, Sept. 23, 1940, to Miss Tully regarding the editing of some later material, “...In talking to my friends I often use foolish out-of-date slang indicating by the voice that it is intentionally naive and to them in writing I keep up the same vein. But the same expressions read by those who do not know me looks like some out-of-the world fogey who does not know that times have changed...”

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition of the author's masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Rufus H. Hathaway with all the regard of Thornton Wilder Tornoto March 1929." Near fine in a good jacket reinforced to the verso. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Housed in a custom chemise jacket with red morocco spine label.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1927. First British Edition. Hardcover. 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. 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.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition of the author's masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Milton J. Lesser with the regard of Thornton Wilder New Haven March 1930." Also laid in is a signed handwritten letter to the recipient from Wilder. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. A superior example of the dust jacket, which is prone to wear.

London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1927. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a scarce, close to Fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the head of the slightly darkened spine. 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."

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. The book is slightly cocked. The dustwrapper has mild chipping to the spine tips and the upper front corner. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. First Trade Edition, with title page printed in green and black. Preceded by the "preliminary issue" of 21 copies and the London edition by a few days. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Winner of Wilder's first of three Pulitzer Prizes, this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to "Dr. Samuel Rosenfeld/with the regards of/Thornton Wilder" and dated "New Hope, Penn./July 1948."

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Edition. Wilder's second and best-known novel, centered around the inter-related histories of five people who plunge to their deaths in 18th century Peru, when an Inca rope bridge breaks. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1928, ranked as No.37 on The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list, and basis for four film adaptations between 1929-2004. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Wilder to Henry Luce, whom he first met as a classmate at Yale. The men had a close but complicated lifelong friendship. Wilder introduced Luce to his first wife, Lila Ross Hotz, while they all attended Yale; Henry and Lila married in 1923, and had two children together. It was Amos Parker Wilder - a journalist, diplomat, and Thornton's father - who pulled Luce aside during his senior year and told him: "Harry, don't. Don't go into journalism. It will turn you into a cynic. It will turn your wine into vinegar. You will lose your soul" (Morrow, Lance. "Lost Souls:… Leer más