1929 The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Illustrated edition. Illustrated with a tipped in frontispiece and fifteen tipped in woodcut plates. Collated complete. The author's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. The novel tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. Written by Thornton Niven Wilder, an American playwright and novelist who won three Pulitzer Prizes in his career. Illustrated by Clare Marie Veronica Leighton, an English–American artist, writer and illustrator, best known for her wood engravings.