Description

Hardcover, full genuine light brown leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 179 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 with woodcuts by Clare Leighton . First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1928. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and internally unmarked copy. Slight loss to gilt stamping at lower fore-edge corner of rear cover, else fine. Very good+.