Description
Hardcover, full genuine black leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 400 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.” First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1962. No previous ownership marks. A clean, unmarked and attractive copy. Fine.