The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 1980

VERY GOOD condition --- Tight binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Minor scratches/fading to textblock gilded page edges. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any questions? Please ask.


This text was featured in the Franklin Library series: "The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers". In addition to 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey', are 'The Cabala' and 'The Woman of Andros'. Published as a Limited Edition in 1980, bound in handsome Forest Green leather, and beautifully illustrated by Dennis Luzak, the book is 1st Edition thus.

All Franklin Library genuine full-leather editions feature:

* Full genuine leather binding.
* 22k. gold lettering and stampings on the spine and covers.
* Attached silk page marker.
* High quality paper.
* Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding.
* Gold gilded page edges on all three sides.
* Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look.

Included with the book is an insert of Notes from the Editors published by The Franklin Library.

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" 'Gertrude Stein once said,' mused Thornton Wilder a few years before his death, 'that writing is merely telling what you know. Well, that telling is as difficult an exercise in technique as it is in honesty: but it should emerge as immediately, as spontaneously, as undeliberately as possible.' The brilliant simplicity and virtousity of his work, especially of the three contained in this volume—'The Cabala', 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey', and 'The Woman of Andros—are ample proof that Wilder succeeded admirably in telling what he knew, in conveying his epic vision of humankind. . . .

. . . 'The Cabala', The Bridge of San Luis Rey', and 'The Woman of Andros', presents the exceptional insights into human nature and the remarkable control of prose that are Thornton Wilder's hallmarks."


The above text was taken from the introduction of Notes from the Editors for this work.