Description

Hardcover, full genuine deep forest green leather binding, gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 335 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.” Illustrated with woodcuts by Gary Kelley. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1945. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new.