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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1981. Limited Edition. Like New. SIGNED on a special bound-in page by James Dickey. The book is tight and square with sharp corners. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or marks. Color illustrations by Barron Storey. Features premium hand-cut full leather boards with a distinct cover design in ornate 22-karat gold gild, hubbed spine, silk moire endpapers, and a sewn-in satin bookmark. The page edges are gold gilded and pristine. Includes a new introduction by James Dickey and Notes from the Editor pamphlet.Deliverance tells the story of four mild, middle-class men from suburban Atlanta who embark on a canoe trip, snaking down a remote Georgia river that will soon disappear beneath a dam. In the woods they find boiling rapids and two sinister mountain men. Before the novel is over, the carnage is nearly complete: three men have been crudely buried, one has been raped, and the survivors have had the bark peeled from their modern sensibilities.