[Rarebooks] FS: My most looked at but not purchased book at the California Book Fair, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $2000,      Now $1500

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. Preceded by the "preliminary issue" of 21 copies and 
the London edition by just 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 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 a Near Fine dustwrapper from a later printing. (#014708)    
     $1,500.00

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