The Coming Fury. Signed, Limited Edition, Franklin Leatherbound, with "Notes From the Editors" Laid-in. 1980

Bruce Catton

Edité par The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1980

Near Fine - very. See scans and description. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Signed, Limited Edition. Signed by Bruce Catton in green ink on the third free end paper. First Edition Thus. Includes the rather scarce 22-page "Notes from the Editors", which accompanied this edition in its original shipment, itself pristine. Octavo, 563 pp., chapter-top illustrations by Hal Just, and several maps and charts throughout. Full, rich, deep gray-green leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, gray moire endpapers, with matching satin page-marker ribbon. Very Near Fine, with one area of rubbing to the gilt of the fore edge, otherwise flawless throughout. Franklin's as-always lavish binding, in a limited signed edition of the 1961 first volume of Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy. The paper is 60-pound Franklin Library Eggshell Wove Cream, typeface is 10-point Baskerville. Gilt is 22 karat. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. Bright, tight and a visual treat. With the author's 'A Special Message to Subscribers from William B. Catton (son of the author)', written in 1980 in Middlebury, Vermont for this limited edition, and telling a rather moving 3-page story of the time he spent with his father as he wrote; and, of course, the separate 'Notes from the Editors', a very desirable example. See all scans. LFR5. N° de réf. du vendeur 62129

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Coming Fury. Signed, Limited Edition, ...
Éditeur : The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA
Date d'édition : 1980
Reliure : Hardcover
Illustrateur : Hal Just
Etat : Near Fine
Signé : Signed by Author(s)