Description

Hardcover, full genuine dark green leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations. 261 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 Alan E. Cober. First edition thus. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1938 and 1943 respectively. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new with a minute scratch to gilt along top edge of bulked sheets. Fine.