Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1978
Leather. Condition: Fine. Illustrations by Mitchell Hooks. (illustrator). Signed Limited Edition. Green leather with gilt decorations, spine with four bands. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Bindings are very tight. A bit of off-setting (toning) above/around the loose tissue-guard on the signature. Signed by Hersey on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. 1945 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the bonding of an American officer and the townspeople of Adano, in Italy, during World War II.
Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
First Edition
1980, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Near fine, no dust jacket. 766pp. Brown leather decoratively stamped in gilt with spine in compartments. All edges gilt, moire endpapers, ribbon page marker, illustrations bibliography. Faint musty odor. Book about Charles Darwin. Edited by Jean Stone. Illustrations by Mitchell Hooks. Publisher series: First Edition Society. (Fiction).