Franklin Library leather edition of Isabel Allende's "The Infinite Plan," a Limited edition, Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden, Frontispiece by Melanie Marder Parks, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION series, personally signed by ISABEL ALLENDE, published in 1993.  Bound in hunter green leather, the book has marbled paper end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, gold gilt on three edges---in FINE condition---SHRINK WRAPPED. [Photos are from a personal copy.]  Isabel Angélica Allende Llona, who was born in1942, is a Chilean writer. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." Her novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events. In a 'special message' to subscribers, Allende wrote:  "In 1987, I came to the U.S. on a hectic lecturing tour and ended up in Northern California. . .I had some curiosity for a white American lawyer with a silk tie who spoke English like a Mexican worker and had a tattoo on his left hand.  I moved into his house, stayed, got used to monogamy and eventually we got married. The story of the West is an epic tale of violence, greed, lust and hope.  California is a region of wild beauty, abrupt sea-shores, mountains where the snow never melts, forest of ancient redwoods high as Gothic bell-towers. It is larger than most European nations, a country by itself, with thirty million people---white, black, yellow and red---who speak several languages and practice all the major religions. . .One day I heard my husband talking about his experience with racism as a white boy in the Mexican ghetto of East Los Angeles and the whole book became clear to me. . .it is fiction and includes a Vietnam veteran, a bohemian jeweler, a Chinese accountant, a frustrated Irish actor and so many others. . . Gregory Reeves told me of his earliest memory: a boy of four, himself, urinating on a hilltop at sunset, the horizon stained red and amber by the last rays of the sun; at his back were the sharp peaks of the hills, and below, a plain stretched farther than the eye could see. The warm liquid flowed and he prolonged the pleasure, playing with a stream, tracing a topaz-colored circle in the dust. "Writing this book was an act of lust, a wonderful writing orgy that lasted four years. . .I am really sorry it is over." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letter and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom. 382 pages.  I offer combined shipping.