Good As Gold

Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1982. The signed, limited edition (Franklin Library also issued the First Edition, that one unsigned, in 1979). Here, signed by Heller on the third free endpaper within, with tissue guard. With the quite scarce accompanying twenty-one page "Notes From the Editors" commentary laid in. Hearty octavo, 520 pp. As New; immaculate and pristine. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the Signed, Limited Edition of Heller's tale of Bruce Gold, an ambitious but fearful, conventional but iconoclastic, intellectual but misadventurous professor who becomes America's first Jewish Secretary of State. Full rich caramel top grain leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, moire endpapers of a truly beautiful Old Gold color, and a matching Old Gold satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is 60-pound Franklin Library "1854" Cream; text set in 11-point Aster type. 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 Heller's "A Special Message to Subscribers" 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-frnkln2