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Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
WILDER, THORNTON. 1897-1975.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Original cloth, pictorial endpapers; dust jacket. Slight lean, rubbing to extremities, jacket toned with edge-chips and a few nicks.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front blank, "For Mac / with my best / Thornton Wilder // Davis / November / 1927." A note laid in attests that Mac is Dr Mackenzie, the then-current headmaster of the Lawrenceville School, the New Jersey prep school where Wilder was a French teacher. Davis is one of the houses at Lawrenceville School.
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Original cloth, pictorial endpapers; dust jacket. Slight lean, rubbing to extremities, jacket toned with edge-chips and a few nicks.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front blank, "For Mac / with my best / Thornton Wilder // Davis / November / 1927." A note laid in attests that Mac is Dr Mackenzie, the then-current headmaster of the Lawrenceville School, the New Jersey prep school where Wilder was a French teacher. Davis is one of the houses at Lawrenceville School.
Estimate:
US$ 400 - 600
£260 - 400
€310 - 470
£260 - 400
€310 - 470
Auction Notices
- Note that the illustrations in this edition are by Amy Drevenstedt, not Rockwell Kent. This lot is offered without reserve.
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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