Franklin Library leather edition of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," a Limited edition, one of the 100 GREATEST MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE series, Illustrated by Henry Pincus, published in 1983. Bound in brown leather, the book has ivory moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for 'minor' specs on top gilt. Edgar Lee Masters, who lived from 1868 – 1950, was a Kansas-born lawyer in Chicago, who entered literature as an avocation. He was catapulted into fame with the publication of Spoon River, free-verse epitaphs revealing the secret lives of the persons buried in a Midwestern cemetery: Nicholas Bindle, Amada Baker. Justice Arnett, Andy the Night-Watch, Williard Fluke, Silas Dement, Ida Chicken, Doc Hill, Fiddler Jones, Judge Selah Lively, Lucinda Matlock, Emily Sparks, The Village Atheist, Yee Bow, and Others. 304 pages. I offer Combined shipping.