The Unmade Bed

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bernard Fuchs. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. First English Language Edition (the French first edition was issued in 1977). With the scarce accompanying eight-fold publisher's pamphlet (see scans). Octavo, 280 pp., illustrated throughout with sophistication by Bernard Fuchs. This First Edition of the translation from Sagan's French is by Abigail Israel. As New; immaculate. Franklin's lavish leather binding of Sagan's very French traipse of erotica, a woman in temporary-ish lust with a guy in ardent spiritual love because that's what he - as a "kamikaze lover" - does; a "tale of an obsessive love". Full rich maroon leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, moire endpapers of a truly beautiful - but rather un-nameable color, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon in that same otherworldy color. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is 60-pound Eggshell Wove Cream; text set in 11-point Bembo type, The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless, and protectively archived since arrival; page-marker has in fact never been moved. Please review scans. With Sagan's "A Special Message to the members of The First Edition Society" prefacing the novel (with laser printed signature), and the seldom-retained eightfold "Notes from the Editors" which arrived with original shipments of the piece (see scans). Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. l-frnkln2