Robert Penn Warren - Selected Poems 1923-1975. Signed, Limited Edition, Franklin Leatherbound, with "Notes From the Editors" Laid-in. 1981

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. As New; immaculate; see scans and description. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Signed, Limited Edition. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on the third free end paper. First Edition Thus. Includes the rather scarce 22-page "Notes from the Editors", which accompanied this edition in its original shipment. Octavo, 298 pp., mood-capturing small - and original - woodcut illustrations by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese at the title pages of the book's eight sections of poetry. Full rich very deep mottled green-black leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, silver-gray moire endpapers, with matching satin page-marker ribbon. As New, and quite flawless. Franklin's as-always lavish binding, in a limited signed edition of Robert Penn Warren's timeless collection. The paper is 60-pound Franklin Library Special White, typeface is 10-point Baskerville. Gilt is 22 karat. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. Fine; bright, tight and a visual treat. With the author's 'A Special Message to Subscribers from Robert Penn Warren', written in 1981 in Fairfield, CT for this limited edition, and, of course, the separate 'Notes from the Editors' (itself in Near Fine), a very desirable - and pristine - example. See scans. LFR5