Exodus - Franklin Library Signed, Limited, Leather Bound Edition

As New; pristine. See description and scans. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977. Signed, limited edition. First Thus. Signed by Leon Uris in blue ink on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. Includes the rather scarce accompanying twenty-two page "Notes From the Editors" commentary, laid in. Illustrations by Harlan Krakovitz, who created the dust jacket image on the original first edition. Octavo, 718 +2 pp. As New; immaculate and pristine. See scans. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the Signed, Limited Edition of Uris' 1958 runaway best selling novel about the founding of the State of Israel. Artist Harlan Krakovitz's illustrations are original for this edition. Binding is rich pale olive buffalo hide, finished in Niger Goat Grain, decorated and imprinted in red and gilt; spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, wine moire endpapers, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is of 70-pound Smooth White stock; text is set in Electra typeface. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless, and protectively archived since arrival; page-marker has in fact never been moved. With the author's newly-contributed "A Special Message to Subscribers from Leon Uris" prefacing the novel, and the seldom-retained "Notes from the Editors", which arrived with original shipments of the piece. Please see all scans. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. l-frnkln3