Description: Each book is 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 and sewn pages for strength and durability. The 85 book set is a fine selection of single book/volume sets from the Signed First Editions (8), The Collector’s Library of Famous Editions (5), the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written (42), The Library of Great Lives (11), other Collections (18) and Reference (2) books. See Collection subtitles followed by titles below. (7) Signed (S) First Editions (additional signed book in Library of the Presidents). (S) Blown Away by A. (S) Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould. (S) In the Company of Writers A Life in Publishing by Charles Scribner. (S) Tell Me More by Larry King. (S) The American Family by Dan Quayle & Diana Medved. (S) The Leveling Wind by George F. (S) Windfall by William Buckley Jr. (42) The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. A Journal of the Plague Year. Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. Moby Dick by Herman Melville. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Short Stories by Oscar Wilde. The Aeneid by Virgil. The Alhambra by Washington Irving. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. The Confessions of St. The Decameron by Boccaccio. The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin. The Divine Comedy by Dante. The Poems by John Donne. The Poems of John Keats. The Poems of Robert Browning. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. The Red and the Black by Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal). The Republic by Plato. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer. The Tales of Guy de Maupassant. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. The Tragedies, The Comedies, The Histories by William Shakespeare. Three Plays by Henry Ibsen. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. Two Plays for Puritans by George Bernard Shaw. Walden by Henry David Thoreau. (2) Books that Changed the World. Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre. The Social Contract and Discourses by Jean Jacques Rousseau. (2) Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Kampus by James Gunn. The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe. (5) The Collectors Library of Famous Editions. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Tess of the DUbervilles by Thomas Hardy. The Man of Property by John Galsworthy. (11) The Library of Great Lives. Alexander Graham Bell The Man Who Contracted Space by Catherine MacKenzie. A Study in Power John D. Rockefeller by Allan Nevins. In Pursuit of Reason, The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Noble E. Caruso, The Man of Naples and the Voice of Gold by T. Christopher Columbus Mariner by Samuel Eliot Morison. Einstein His Life and Times by Philipp Frank. Leonardo the Florentine by Rachael Annand Taylor. Peter the Great by Henri Troyat. Winston Churchill by Henry Pelling. (2) Great Books of the 20th Century. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. (3) The Library of the Presidents. A Puritan in Babylon, Biography of Calvin Coolidge by William Allen White. (S) A Time to Heal, The Autobiography of Gerald Ford. Lyndon Johnson and His Times by Robert Dallek. (10) Miscellaneous Collector’s Editions. Mammals by Burt and Grossenholder (Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides). Nuremberg Diary by G. The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton (Nautical Library Collection). The Last Days of Socrates Plato (Greek Classics). The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving (Masterpieces of American Literature). What the Trout Said by Datus C. Proper (Library of Fly-Fishing Classics). The Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations. Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. The item “Easton Press Leather Book Collection Lot Ltd, 1st, Signed Ed.’s 86 pieces” is in sale since Friday, January 10, 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.
- Year Printed: 1980
- Modified Item: Yes
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Topic: Literature
- Binding: Leather
- California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
- Region: North America
- Author: Various
- Subject: Literature & Fiction
- Original/Facsimile: Original
- Language: English
- Modification Description: (5) Signed First Editions
- Signed: Yes
- Publisher: Easton Press
- Place of Publication: Norwalk, Connecticut
- Special Attributes: 1st Edition
