Offered is an fine ensemble of collectible Franklin Library books; includes 16 author signed (S) books limited and 1st ed. S, 42 classic books. The collection is fully leather bound with beautiful covers and contain gorgeous and rich silk moire endpapers; 4 quarter leather (QL) bound hardcovers are the exception. Unattached tissue inserts guard the signatures within signed books. The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Comedies by William Shakespeare. Essays by Michel Montaigne. Tales of All Countries and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope. The Aeneid of Virgil. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire. The Tragedies of Sophocles. The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Tragedies by William Shakespeare. Walden by Henry David Thoreau. The Collected Stories of the Worlds Greatest Writers. Candide and Zadig by Voltaire. Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift. Peasants and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov. Stories from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature. Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison. Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg. A Mencken Chrestomathy by H. Four Plays by Eugene O’Neill. Interpretations and Forecasts by Lewis Mumford. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. Plays by Thornton Wilder. Selected Plays by Tennessee Williams. Selected Plays by Henry James. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber. 1919 by John Dos Passos. The Great Books of the Western World. Annals and Histories by Tacitus. (S) A God in Ruins by Leon Uris. (S) A World of Love by Joseph P. (S) Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler. (S) Five Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre. (S) Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates. (S) Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike. (S) In Search of History by Theodore H. (S) Justine by Lawrence Durrell. (S) Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike. (S) Rogers Version by John Updike. (S) The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow. (S) The Last Angry Man by Gerald Green. (S) The Road to Wellville by T. (S) The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West. (S) The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw. (S) Unto the Sons by Gay Talese. A Coat of Varnish by C. Kalki by Gore Vidal. The Alcestiad by Thornton Wilder. The Life I Really Lived by Jessamyn West. Miscellaneous Franklin Library Collections. John Brodys Body by Stephen Vincent Benet (Pulitzer Prize Classics). Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. (QL) Rhetoric and On Poetics – Aristotle. (QL) Selected Lives Plutarch. (QL) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. (QL) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. The item “1980s Leather Book Lot, Signed, Ltd. & First Ed. Franklin Library 58 pcs” is in sale since Saturday, March 28, 2020. 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: Classics
- Binding: Leather
- California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
- Region: North America
- Author: Various
- Subject: Literature & Fiction
- Original/Facsimile: Original
- Language: English
- Modification Description: 12 signed books
- Signed: Yes
- Publisher: Franklin Library
- Place of Publication: Franklin, PA
- Special Attributes: Signed