Description

Hardcover, full genuine (moss) green leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 452 pages. Bibliography and 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 paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller and Charles Bodmer. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1948. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and as new copy. As new.