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Franklin Library Books: "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" Limited Edition Leather Bound Gilded Books [MULTIPLE TITLES] Famous Literature
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Highlights
The Franklin Library's "100 Greatest Books of All Time" was a popular collection published from 1974-1982, featuring classic literature bound in full leather with gilt accents and silk endpapers, including major works by Dickens, Twain, Shakespeare, Dante, and Tolstoy, known for their aesthetic appeal and accompanying editor's notes, making them collectible editions.
These books feature raised spine bands, gold accents, gold gilded pages, high quality paper, and sewn-in silk ribbon bookmarks.
All books here are from "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" Limited Edition Series 1974-1982, featuring the highest quality of materials, and are in mint condition, appearing to never have been used or read, unless otherwise stated in the condition notes below.
Some volumes have the accompanying "Notes from the Editors" with them and some do not - see the complete list of titles below for details.
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Bundle Discounts available: for each additional volume over 1 purchased, receive $5 off - issued as a partial refund after checkout!
Complete List of Titles Available:
Author: Adams, Henry | Title: The Education of Henry Adams | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Aeschylus | Title: Oresteia | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Red | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Andersen, Hans Christian | Title: Fairy Tales | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $49.99 | Binding Color: Red | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Aristophanes | Title: Five Comedies | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Bacon, Sir Francis | Title: Bacon's Essays, Selected Writings | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Gray | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Baudelaire, Charles | Title: The Flowers of Evil | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni | Title: The Decameron | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Bronte, Charlotte | Title: Jane Eyre | Editor Notes: No | Price: $49.99 | Binding Color: Navy Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey | Title: Canterbury Tales | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Confucius | Title: The Analects of Confucius | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $34.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Cooper, James Fenimore | Title: The Last of the Mohicans | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Green | Condition Notes: Faint rubbing to gilding on text block
Author: Crane, Stephen | Title: The Red Badge of Courage | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Darwin, Charles | Title: The Origin of Species | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Defoe, Daniel | Title: Moll Flanders | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Forest Green | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Defoe, Daniel | Title: Robinson Crusoe | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Descartes, Rene | Title: Philosophical Works | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: Faint shelf wear to boards
Author: Dickens, Charles | Title: Great Expectations | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $39.99 | Binding Color: Navy Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Donne, John | Title: Poems | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Red | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Eliot, George | Title: The Mill on the Floss | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Gray | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Title: Essays | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Faulkner, William | Title: The Sound and the Fury | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Teal | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Fielding, Henry | Title: Tom Jones | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Green | Condition Notes: Faint mustiness and some rubbing to gilding on the text block
Author: Franklin, Benjamin | Title: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Freud, Sigmund | Title: Basic Works | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: Some pages are stiff due to past moisture exposure, and musty odor is present. Price reduced accordingly.
Author: Frost, Robert | Title: The Poetry of Robert Frost | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Goethe | Title: Faust | Editor Notes: No | Price: $45.00 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: Gilding on textblock rubbed off in some areas
Author: Grimm, The Brothers | Title: Favorite Household Tales | Editor Notes: No | Price: $39.99 | Binding Color: Red | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Hamilton Jay & Madison, Alexander John & James | Title: The Federalist | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Navy Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Hemingway, Ernest | Title: A Farewell to Arms | Editor Notes: No | Price: $39.99 | Binding Color: Red w/ Gilt Rose | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Ibsen, Henrik | Title: Plays | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: James, Henry | Title: The Ambassadors | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Keats, John | Title: Poems of John Keats | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Lawrence, D. H. | Title: Women in Love | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Navy Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Machiavelli | Title: The Prince | Editor Notes: No | Price: $39.99 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Mill, John Stuart | Title: Political Writings | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Navy Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Moliere | Title: Plays | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Montaigne, Michel De | Title: Essays | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: O'Neill, Eugene | Title: Plays | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Green | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Pascal, Blaise | Title: Pensees | Editor Notes: No | Price: $34.99 | Binding Color: Navy Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Petronius | Title: Satyricon | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Navy Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Plutarch | Title: Twelve Illustrious Lives | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan | Title: Tales of Edgar Allan Poe | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Red | Condition Notes: Binding has some shelf wear
Author: Proust, Marcel | Title: Swan's Way | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Rabelais | Title: Gargantua and Pantagruel | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Red | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Racine, Jean | Title: Six Tragedies | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Green | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Rousseau, Jean Jacques | Title: Political Writings | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Shaw, Bernard | Title: Plays | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Red | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Stendhal | Title: The Red and the Black | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Red | Condition Notes: Editor's notes book has shelf wear to it, main volume is like new/mint
Author: Sterne, Laurence | Title: Tristram Shandy | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Green | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis | Title: Treasure Island | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $34.99 | Binding Color: Navy Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Swift, Jonathan | Title: Gulliver's Travels | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace | Title: Vanity Fair | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Green | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Turgenev, Ivan | Title: Fathers and Sons | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Virgil | Title: The Aeneid of Virgil | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Black | Condition Notes: Shelf rubbing to boards
Author: Whitman, Walt | Title: Leaves of Grass | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Brown | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Wordsworth & Coleridge | Title: Lyrical Ballads | Editor Notes: Yes | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Green | Condition Notes: None / Mint
Author: Zola, Emile | Title: Nana | Editor Notes: No | Price: $29.99 | Binding Color: Navy Blue | Condition Notes: None / Mint
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Beautiful book in fabulous condition.
Some scuffs, but the interior looks amazing :)
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Very nice volume for my collection
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