Shaw, Irwin — Bread Upon the Waters
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1981. limited first edition. Leather bound. Evergreen leather/boards; gilt decoration all around with gilt lettering and 3 raised bands on spine; all edges gilt; silk moire end papers with matching satin place-holder ribbon. No dust jacket, as issued. 490 pp. with illustrations by Mark Bellerose. The limited first edition, published prior to the first trade edition by Delacorte Press. Includes a message to members of The First Edition Society, special to this edition. Fine. Unread, tight, clean copy but with faint fading to edges of end papers, as is common with these editions.