Summer's Lease (The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society Series)

287, [1] pp. 8vo. Full leather - blue with red-orange accents, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-page color frontispiece by Ed Collins. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece that appear only in the limited edition. A novel set in Italy, by the British author of the Rumpole novels. It was adapted as a mini-series in 1989. "The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks. But when the idyll turns sour, Molly Pargeter begins to wonder about their mysterious absentee landlord."