[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Limited Pulitzer Prize winning Biography of Benjamin Franklin

[Charles Agvent]

Just now cataloged and not yet listed on the net:

VAN DOREN, Carl. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. New York: The Viking Press, 1938. 
First Edition. Three volumes housed in orignal glassine dustwrappers and 
a marbled paper slipcase. Copy #559 of 625 copies SIGNED by the author 
of this true first printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. 
Illustrated with plates including a facsimile of "Franklin's Last 
Speech." A 1939 owner inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise Fine, 
largely unopened, in worn glassines and a complete slipcase with the top 
edge partly detached. (#017148)        $250.00

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