Description

Hardcover, full genuine dark red leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 542 pages. Includes Selected Bibliography and Index. All edges gilt. Illustrated with black and white photographs and sketch maps. 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.” First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1957. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and attractive copy. Like new..