Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition and Limited Edition, signed by author Leon Uris on the second free endpaper. Octavo, 566 pp. + 1 + 5 pp Reference Maps; also several illustrations executed with distinctive style by Reinord Von Whitt-Pritchette for this true first edition. See scans. As New; immaculate and pristine. See scans. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the true First Edition of Uris' novel of a Palestine refugee family and its pilgrimage. Full rich caramel top grain leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, richly marbled endpapers, and a caramel satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is Franklin's own laid bond. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New, and never read; has been protectively archived since arrival. Page-marker ribbon has in fact never been moved. Please review scans. With "A Special Message for the First Edition" by Uris prefacing the novel. Please see all scans. Relatively uncommon as both true First Edition and signed edition; most Franklin special edition titles were one or the other. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. l-frnkln5

Leon Uris