The bridge of saint luis rey5/13/2023 ![]() The bridge of love is the only link between the land of the living and the land of the dead.' (Quote taken from the inside front cover) ***A nice clean copy of the first paperback edition of this famous Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Why were they victims of this accident? Had these five, different in age, sex and outlook obtained complete fulfilment and so passed on? Discovering their biographies among the papers of an old monk, burnt for his attempt to solve the plan of life by unravelling these problems, the author leaves the question open. ***'Five people perished when the finest bridge in Peru broke on a summer's day in 1748. 178 pages plus an eight-page publisher's catalogue at the back of the book. Internally also very good with a neat contemporary ownership name and date in fountain-pen ink to the inside front cover. Edges of page block quite clean without any foxing. Light reading creases to the spine which is also slightly rolled from reading. Extremities of covers just slightly rubbed, mainly to the edges of the spine. ***Very good in green printed card covers. ![]() The book was originally published in hardback in the USA by Albert & Charles Boni, and by Longmans Green & Co. ![]() First printing of the Albatross Modern Continental Library paperback edition - published as No. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. ![]()
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