Gods of War
John Toland, signed by author
$30.00

This first edition copy of Toland’s war novel is red leather over hard board with gold embossed patterns on the cover and spine, with gilt page edges on all sides. New, it has a hard board cover that has sharp edges/corners and a tight binding. Pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. There’s an introduction by the author that appears in no other edition. The book is hand signed by the author and features premium hand-cut full leather boards with a distinct cover design in ornate 22-karat gold gild. The spine is hubbed with raised horizontal ridges formed in the leather. There are marbled endpapers with a sewn in matching satin bookmark. The pages are gold gilded to protect against dust and moisture and the paper used is acid neutral to last generations without discoloring. 201 various classic First Editions by various authors were issued by the Franklin Library from 1983 until they ceased publishing in 2000. These books are highly collectible and are no longer available from the publisher.