The Author's Annual 1929 [Thornton Wilder's copy]

New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1929. An edition of 500. 211 pp. 8vo. Marbled boards with peach colored cloth spine with lettering; bumped lower corner and some light rubbing near edges, some toning to pages but overall about near fine. Blue ink manuscript noting publisher's intention for this copy to go to Thornton Wilder on edition page. An edition of 500. 211 pp. 8vo. Thornton Wilder (b.1897 - d.1975) won the Pulitzer Prize for The Novel for his best-selling book, The Bridge of San Luis Rey in 1928. This annual acknowledges this in it's listings and was dedicated to him by the publisher's.