The Bridge of San Luis Rey. London: Longmans, Green, 1927. First Edition. Pp139. Publisher’s navy cloth with titles in gilt on spine and facsimile signature of author in gilt on front board, in original dust jacket designed by Rockwell Kent. Head of jacket spine with a little loss otherwise a nice bright copy.

First British and true First Edition, preceding the American edition by several days.

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.