Two by O'Hara

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. First Edition and Limited Edition. With included, separate "Notes from the Editors", which is now scarce. Octavo, 254 pp.; portrait illustrations executed with distinctive style by award-winning artist John Collier. Several photographs of O'Hara are included in the opening pages. As New; immaculate and pristine. See scans. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the First Edition of two previously unpublished O'Hara Pieces - The Man Who Could Not Lose, and Far From Heaven - the former being a skeletal novel written for Twentieth Century-Fox, the latter being a play now considered one of O'Hara's three best. Both selected by Matthew Bruccoli. Full rich charcoal top grain leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, moire endpapers of silver-gray, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is 60-pound Franklin Library Eggshell Cream; text set in 10-point Caledonia typeface. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New, and never read; has been protectively archived since arrival. Page-marker ribbon has in fact never been moved. Please review scans. With "A Special Message to the members of The First Edition Society", by Red Smith, prefacing the novel (with laser printed signature); and of course the scarce, separate "Notes from the Editors" (see scans). Please see all scans. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. l-frnkln3