Author: DRURY, Allen
Title: A God Against the Gods
Description: Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ted CoConis. Small 4to. Full brown calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt/salmon lettering and rules/decorations, publisher's thin card stock slipcase with gold foil label. 407pp. All edges gilt. Full-page color illustrations, genealogical chart, mustard moire silk endpapers, sewn-in mustard satin page marker. Fine/near fine. Pristine, tight first of this limited (unspecified) leatherbound edition of the 1976 historical novel set in ancient Egypt. Choice autograph addition: Tipped to blank leaf facing the title page is a unique frontispiece of sorts -- a fine 4¼" X 5¼" printed head-and-shoulders portrait of a young Drury in suit and tie, near the bottom of which he boldly signs in black fineline, adding "Cordially" above. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet laid in. .

Keywords: American Literature


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