Description

Hardcover, full genuine light brown leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 194 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 several full page color plates by John Collier. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy, as new.