BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

by Carl Van Doren, Marjorie Torre Chanslor

$475 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

First edition

NY: Viking, 1938. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. The 1939 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and presentation copy from author Van Doren to his daughter's step mother-in-law, Marjorie Torre Chanslor, illustrator and writer of children's books, and two mystery novels for adults published under the name Torrey Bevans. Marjorie's first husband was Thomas Murray Bevans, whose son Thomas Torre Bevans - by

• Binding: Hardcover

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