Description

Hardcover, full genuine gark blue leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 688 pages. Index. 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 drawings by Bertram Greene and maps by Erwin Raisz. First edition thus. This title was published earlier by The Franklin Library (1978), with the present special edition being by far the scarcer. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1943. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and near like new copy. Fine,