Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1975-1979; 8vo; illustrated; finely bound in gilt-decorated leather with moire endpapers, satin ribbon bookmarks, and all edges gilt; all but one a Pulitzer Prize-winning title. Includes the following (11) limited editions: Margaret Mitchell's
Gone with the Wind; John Steinbeck's
The Grapes of Wrath; Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird; Edith Wharton's
The Age of Innocence; Pearl S. Buck's
The Good Earth; Robert Penn Warren's
All the King's Men; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's
The Yearling; Thornton Wilder's
The Bridge of San Luis Rey; William Styron's
The Confessions of Nat Turner;
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter; and Kurt Vonnegut's
Jailbird (first edition). The Lot also includes The Easton Press's The Library of the Presidents edition of
Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President by Marquis James.
Largest 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; Smallest 8 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.
Occasional light wear to boards, slight separation from text block, wear to gilt page edges, discoloration to endpapers, and minor spot to interior; one spine slightly sunned;
Gone with the Wind with some slightly heavier wear to boards. All books in very good or near fine condition.
