- 2 Frassetto Way - Lincoln Park, NJ 07035
May Uncurated and the Estate of Adman Ron Travisano
Lot 319:
Description
47 Franklin Library leather bound books. Titles including: Homer – The Odyssey, Henry James – The Portrait of a Lady, Henry Fielding – The History of Tom Jones A Foundling, Pearl S. Buck – The Good Earth, Rudyard Kipling – Stories, Tennessee Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Anton Chekhov – Greatest Plays, Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain, Moliere – Comedies, Plato – Selected Dialogues, Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Feodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment, Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy, Herman Melville – Moby-Dick, Edgar Allan Poe – Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Defoe – The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter, Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary, Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Brothers Grimm – One Hundred Fairy Tales, John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath, The Confessions of Saint Augustine, Stephen Crane – The Red Badge of Courage, Aesop’s Fables, Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre, William Shakespeare – Selected Plays, John Milton – Paradise Lost, Willa Cather – My Antonia, Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice, Thornton Wilder – Our Town / The Skin of Our Teeth, Charles Dickens – David Copperfield, Romantic Poets, Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence, Eudora Welty – The Optimist’s Daughter, Jack London – The Call of the Wild, Richard Henry Dana – Two Years Before the Mast, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Virgil – The Aeneid, William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair, Anthony Trollope – Barchester Towers, William Faulkner – The Reivers, Robert Frost – Poems, Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote de la Mancha. Most with unused original bookplates. Various dates, 1979-1987. Minor wear to gilt decoration on covers and spines, Huckleberry Finn wear and losses to front cover; some evidence of mold.
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