The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (HQ287)

Published 1927: First UK Edition / Hardcover / Good Condition

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the cover and spine. 140 very clean and bright pages, some dried speckled moulding on the endpapers edges, previous owners signature on the first page. Boards slightly rubbed, stained and faded with time consistent with age but remain firm and intact. A very scarce first UK edition.(HQ287)

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American author Thornton Wilder’s second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim.

It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that led up to their being on the bridge.

Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.

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