The Last Angry Man. Signed, Limited Edition by Green, Gerald - 1978

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. Full-Leather. A deluxe Franklin Library signed edition of the hefty 1956 novel by Gerald Green (1922-2006). The story is set in the world of Dr. Sam Abelman, a physician. This work was made into a 1959 movie starring Paul Muni. Signed by author on a leaf near front of volume. Includes illustrations by Fred W. Thomas. Franklin Library booklet about this work is laid in. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Brown silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With a hint of sunning to edges of moire endpapers and a faint scratch to gilding on textblock fore-edge, else a clean, tightly-bound, bright copy.… Read More

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fred W. Thomas. New, and pristine. See scans and description. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed, Limited Edition, with the relatively scarce 22 pp. ''Notes From the Editors" laid-in. Signed by Gerald Green on the third free end paper, with tissue guard. First Edition Thus."The Last Angry Man"; octavo, 701 pp., illustrations by Fred W. Thomas; full, rich, brown leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, russet moire endpapers, brown satin page-marker ribbon. New; pristine. Franklin's as-always lavish binding, in a limited signed 1981 edition of the 1956 Green novel about a crusty, dedicated neighborhood doctor who becomes the subject of a television documentary by a struggling producer. The novel was the basis for the 1959 film of the same name, which was nominated for 2 Academy Awards and starred Paul… Read More