Description

Hardcover, full genuine black leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 766 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, “privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics.” Contains an extensive bibliography. Illustrated with nineteenth-century drawings by Walton Taber. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956. No previous ownership marks. Very minor signs of wear to elaborate gilt stamping, else near fine. A clean, tight, sound copy, still handsome and with a wonderful shelf appearance. Very good+