Offered is an extraordinary ensemble of highly collectible Franklin Library books; includes 37 author signed limited and first editions , 95 classic books, paired with 69 Editor’s Notes (3 pamphlet boxes). They are all fully leather bound with beautiful covers and contain gorgeous and rich silk moire endpapers. Unattached tissue inserts guard the signatures within the signed books. The Rector of Justin. Go Tell It on the Mountain. Other Voices, Other Room. A Book of Common Prayer. Drury, Allen Advise and Consent. The French Lieutenants Woman. The Last Angry Man. A Bell for Adano & The Wall. Birds of America & Group. Cry, the Beloved Country. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Lust for Life & The Agony and the Ecstasy. Lie Down in Darkness & The Confessions of Nat Turner. All the Kings Men. In Search of History. The Story of Henri Tod. The Red, White and Blue. Tough Guys Dont Dance. The Human Factor. Two by OHara. Early Autumn (1977). One of Ours (1977). Journey in the Dark (1978). Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe. Somerset Tales from the East and the West. Auchincloss, Louis The Winthrop Covenant. Grau, Shirley Ann Evidence of Love. Morante, Elsa – History. Safire, William Full Disclosure. Stegner, Wallace – The Spectator Bird (2 copies). Collected Stories of the Worlds Greatest Writers. In the Midst of Life & Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy. Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice. Balzac, Honore Pere Goriot (2 copies). Baudelaire, Charles Flowers of Evil. Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe. Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield. Faulkner, William Sound and the Fury. Fielding, Henry Tom Jones. Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary. Hardy, Thomas – The Return of the Native. Hemingway, Ernest Farewell to Arms. Joyce, James – Ulysses. Kafka, Franz The Trial. Mann, Thomas Stories (2 copies). Maupassant, Guy de Stories. Milton, John Paradise Lost. Poe, Edgar Allen – Tales of Edgar Allen Poe. Proust, Marcel Swanns Way. Racine, Jean Six Tragedies. Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel. Rousseau, Jean Jacques Political Writings. Shaw, Bernard Plays (2 copies). Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels. Sterne, Laurence Tristam Shandy. Thackeray, William Makepeace Vanity Fair. Thucydides The Peloponnesian War. Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace. Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Wordsworth and Coleridge Lyrical Ballads. Yeats, William Butler Selected Poems. Zola, Emile – Nana. Greatest Books of the 20th Century. Decline and Fall. Fine (55), near fine (60), very good (14), good (4); most books appear unread, light shelf wear. See last three example condition images, as described below. Near fine; gilt leaf edges effected by light nail scratches, a few with gently sunned spines. Very good; gilt leaf edges effected by light-moderate nail scratches, a couple with a rubbed extremity. Good; gilt leaf edges effected by either some gilt loss, rub or scratches. Bound in fine genuine leather with 22 karat gold decorations, all page edges gilded with 22 karat gold, raised spine hubs, sewn-in satin ribbon bookmarks, high quality paper, silk moire fabric endpapers, sewn pages for strength and durability. Pproximate weight: 445 pounds. The item “1970s Vintage Leather Book Collection, Signed Franklin Library Lot 136 Pieces” is in sale since Wednesday, April 17, 2019. This item is in the category “Books\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “lachambredambre” and is located in Crockett, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Modified Item: Yes
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Topic: World
- Binding: Leather
- California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
- Region: North America
- Author: Various
- Subject: Literature & Fiction
- Original/Facsimile: Original
- Modification Description: (37 of 133) books author signed on front free endpapers, protected by unattached tissue inserts.
- Language: English
- Signed: Yes
- Publisher: Franklin Library
- Place of Publication: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Special Attributes: 1st Edition