[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED First Edition of early Pulitzer Prize Winner: THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY

[Charles Agvent]

One of MANY fine Thornton Wilder items in our inventory including 
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WILDER, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. New York: Albert & Charles 
Boni, 1927. First Edition. First Trade Edition, with title page printed 
in green and black. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Winner of Wilder's 
first of three Pulitzer Prizes, this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the 
author on the first blank "For Rufus H. Hathaway/with all the/regard 
of/Thornton Wilder" and dated "Toronto/March/1929." Hathaway, who died 
in 1933, was a former superintendent of the Canadian National Telegraph 
News Department as well as a serious collector and devoted student of 
Canadian literature. The dustwrapper is identical on the front panel to 
that of the first printing and has the same price but has different copy 
on the rear panel and both flaps as well as "4th Large Printing" printed 
on the spine. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper from a later printing. 
         $3,000.00

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