Description

Hardcover, full genuine blue leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 356 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.” (Published in two earlier editions by the Franklin Library, this last edition was limited and though not rare is the most difficult of the three Franklin editions to locate in this condition.) Illustrated with several full page line drawings by Jill Karla Schwartz. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh pristine copy, unmarked and like new. As new.