Description

Hardcover, full genuine dark brown leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 676 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 by David Frampton. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1951. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine.