Description

Hardcover, full genuine black leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 530 pages. Index. 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.” Editor’s preface by Henry Cabot Lodge. Illustrated with portraits of the leading figures of the day. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography in 1919. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, handsome copy with two minute spot to gilt on top edge, else like new. Near fine.