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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Blue paper over boards with plain blue dust jacket all in very good condition. 1928-1st edition. Limited edition #308 of 775, of which 750 are for sale, SIGNED by author Thornton Wilder on limited edition page. Black & white tissue protected photo illustration frontispiece of Thornton Wilder by Doris Ulmann. Book is in very good condition, never read as many or most of the pages are still uncut. The dust jacket spine is slightly sun faded. 149 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Slightly oversized hardcover, with bright pictorial cloth over boards. Cloth has acquired a yellowish tone from age, with spine darker than the boards. Title page dated 1929, copyright page 1927. 120 pages plus colophon which states that there were 1100 copies printed, of which this is number 1083. Facing the colophon is a color lithograph of a llama in the mountains, signed by both Thornton Wilder and Rockwell Kent. The Bridge was both a bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1928. The illustrations here are relatively early work by Kent. Please email with questions or to request photos. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, July 1928, 1ST BRITISH Edition, Third Impression STATED, Same yr. as 1st but few months Later, NF-/GOOD, Brown & White Decorated DJ with light FoX wear & Tiny small Chips Extremities, 8vo., Blue Cloth Titled on Spine in Gilt, Interior nice tight Clean, Light FoX, Wear, Small Piece from Top of Spine & Top of BAck DustJacket, The book was published the same year as the first edition. 1928 on Title Pg & Copyright pg, Comes from a smoke-free home, Publishers Blue Dye top edges Pages. Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. Signed limited edition of The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder. (illustratore). Limited Edition. Octavo, viii, 246pp, [2]. Navy blue cloth, title stamped in silver on the spine. Stated "First Edition" with "M-W" production code on copyright page. Solid text block, rubbing along head of spine, some fraying to the edges of cloth. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.75 retail price on front flap, light wear to corners and edges, faint shelf wear to rear panel. A very good example. Limitation page reads: "Seven hundred and fifty copies of the first edition of The Ides of March have been signed by the author for distribution to friends of the House." This copy is numbered 411 and signed by Thornton Wilder. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an American playwright and novelist renowned for exploring universal themes of human connection and resilience. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for drama with Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), and one for fiction with The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927). His work often delves into existential questions, blending realism with philosophical reflection. Wilder also wrote novels like The Cabala (1926) and The Ides of March (1948), alongside numerous plays. His works remain celebrated for their innovative narrative techniques and timeless exploration of the human condition. Signed.

Decorative Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wheat/Red/Glit Embossed Boards. Spine Darkened, Slight Soiling. Inscribed On Title Page, "For John With The Best Wishes Of His Friend, Thornton Wilder, University Of Chicago; Dec 1931 " Stated 3Rd Printing. Owner's Bookplate.

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. Signed first American edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. This copy is inscribed to a lifelong friend of Wilder, with two additional ALS laid-in. (illustratore). First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 235pp, [1]. Mauve cloth, title in black on front cover and spine. Yellow topstain, illustrated endpapers. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, light wear along edges, a near fine example. Previous ownership inscription to front flyleaf, dated 1927. Complete with frontispiece and 8 plates by Amy Drevenstedt. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, sunned spine, light wear to corners. Closed tears to front panel and spine reinforced with archival tissue repair on verso. An attractive example. (Bruccoli & Clark III, 363) (Martine 9, 146) (Edelstein A2b) Signed by Thornton Wilder on the verso of the frontispiece. Inscription reads: "To Miss Margaret Dunbar / with all the regard of an old friend and co-worker. Thornton / Berkeley Jan 1930." Includes two handwritten letters from Wilder, corresponding with the recipient of this copy, Miss Margaret Dunbar. One letter, dated March 24, 1969, was written to Dunbar as Wilder traveled by ship from Genoa to Curacao. Wilder describes hopes for the remainder of his career, stating "Alas, I haven't yet written that beguiling book for children that I've long dreamed of doing; and I'd like to do one more (and better) farce-comedy that would give sheer pleasure." The second letter, dated February 27, 1972, is addressed to "Mrs. Dunbar," offering condolences for the passing of the original recipient. The recipient of this copy and letters, Miss Margaret Dunbar (d. 1972), was the head of the South Berkeley Branch Library, a member of the American Association of University Women, and a member of the Berkeley Zonta Club. (Berkeley Gazette, April 1948) Dunbar and Wilder maintained a friendship first formed in childhood, as they both lived near Berkeley, CA. (Sacramento Union, Sept. 1930) The English edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey preceded the first American edition by a few days. The true first impression (only 21 copies) has a title page printed in all black and is rarely seen on the market. (Edelstein A2a) Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an American playwright and novelist renowned for exploring universal themes of human connection and resilience. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for drama with Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), and one for fiction with this work, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927). Signed.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condizione: GOOD. FIRST ED. Signed & inscribed in pen on pre-title page by Thornton Wilder, "For Elena de Hellebranth and Bertha de Hellebranth with the regaqrd of Thornton Wilder, Atlantic City, NJ, March 15 1948." Also included is a autographed letter signed (ALS), handwritten on note paper, that was mailed to Miss Elena Hellbranth, envelope is postmarked New Haven, Conn; Apr. 20 1946. The autographed handwritten letter has the letterhead, "50 Deepwood Drive, Hamden 14. Connecticut," and the letter states, "April 20-1946, Dear Miss Hellebranth, Many thanks for thinking of me in reference to Ned Sheldon's death. All his friends , too, are writing one another in dismay and grief at his death. I remember with much pleasure the congenial evening at Miss Taylor's home and the drive home with yourself and your sister. Many thanks again for your expressive letter, Sincerely Yours, Thornton Wilder." ALSO included are newspaper clippings on "The Ides of March," some of which are, 1) NY Times, Feb. 18, 1948, announcing books that were published on that day, 2) NY Times full front page, section 2, March 25, 1962, written by Lewis Funke about Jerome Kilty's dramatization of Thornton Wilder's "Ides of March." Bertha de Hellebranth and her sister Elena were born into a cultured upper-class family in Budapest, Bertha in 1899, Elena in 1897. Their father was a lawyer and their mother a student of Franz Liszt's last living pupil. Both sisters showed artistic potential early, beginning to paint at four or five years of age. Their parents encouraged them, and had the means to send them to the best art schools of the time. They studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Budapest, at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumičre in Paris, and painted portraits of European nobility. As Patricia Fazekas points out, "Growing up in a family of privilege, they seemed to have unusual access to many illustrious people." So we should not be surprised to find among their subjects members of high society, such as Count Andrássy Gyula, the Russian-born Princess Baby Galitzine, and Admiral Horthy Miklós, the Regent. Later on, their subjects included American heiress Gladys Vanderbilt (Countess László Széchenyi), President Theodore Roosevelt's granddaughter Paulina Longworth and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. From the mid-thirties until World War II, Bertha and Elena divided their time between their home in Budapest and a home on the ocean at Ventnor, NJ (the next city over from Atlatnic City, NJ). In 1925, they showed their work at the Nemzeti Szalon in Budapest, and in 1926, they had a joint exhibition of their portraits in the US. Both exhibited their work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and most major museums and galleries in the US. Bertha also had exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both Bertha and Elena were Fellows of the Royal Society of Art (London), and garnered numerous prizes. Bertha was awarded First Prize by the National Academy of the American Water Color Society one year, and the Grand Prize of the Audubon Society. She was one of the founders of the now defunct World League of Hungarian Artists Abroad (Külföldi Magyar Képzomuvészek Világszövetsége), and received a Gold Medal from the Cleveland Árpád Akadémia in 1963. (Elena also received the Akadémia's gold medal in 1965.) Their work is found in museums and galleries too numerous to mention. Elena settled in Atlantic City, NJ. Neither she nor Bertha married. We do know that Bertha died at age 81, in December of 1980. Elena outlived her by eight years, dying in February 1988, at age 91. Much of their work from the 1920's through the 1940's was donated by their sister-in-law in her will to the American Hungarian Foundation in 2001. Museum exhibition records indicate that they continued to paint, sculpt and show their work throughout the 1950's and 60's and perhaps even longer," wrote Patricia Fazekas. But no samples of their later.