Guard of Honor, James Gould Cozzens. Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1978. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 575pp., illustrated by Charles McVickers. Full grey blue leather with gilt titles to banded spine and gilt design front and rear; all edges gilt; moire endpapers with matching ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints; printed on archival paper. Limited edition of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. A beautiful copy in mint condition.
James Gould Cozzens was one of America’s most famous writers after the Second World War. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel GUARD OF HONOR balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days to a racial incident on a U.S. Air Force training base in Florida in 1942.
The Franklin Library Pulitzer Prize Series was a limited edition series of the 53 Pulitzer Prizes awarded to Novels from the first in 1918 through 1979. The series was published from 1975 to 1980. They are highly sought after as collectibles. Several additional titles are available in this series; please inquire.
