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Franklin Library, 1977-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x1. Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front, back and spine. All edges gold. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Fine binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. For more than 30 years, the Franklin Library has been the standard for finely bound, profusely gilt classic leather bindings. <br> "Writing at the height of his powers, John Hersey has created a taut, dazzling novel of suspense and revelation, in which we watch, mesmerized, the fateful convergence of two lives. A young woman, having fled from her suddenly unbearable 'college kid' self, and from the place, even the lover, that were part of it, comes alone to a strange city, anxiously waiting for something new and important to begin. A man, breezy, ponytailed, beautiful, stranded by the passing of the sixties whose excitements had nurtured and consumed him, now lavishes his whole self on… Read More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Limited First Edition. Leather Bound. pp. 227. 8vo. Bound in full lovely textured tan leather over boards, featuring elaborate gilt lettering, rules and ornamentation to the spine and boards; three raised bands to spine, four compartments, textured dark-brown silk moire endpapers, like silk ribbon-marker, all edges gilt. Illustrated with charming full-page black-and-white plates. Entirely without blemish to the extremities, and contents. Appears unread; as new. A most handsome presentation. Not to be mistaken for earlier, more common printings, by the Franklin Library which are not bound in leather. "This limited first edition of The Walnut Door by John Hersey has been privately printed exclusivley for members of The First Edition Society."