- 2 Frassetto Way - Lincoln Park, NJ 07035
June Uncurated: Art, Design & Collectibles
Lot 225:
Description
24 volumes of classic literature, primarily published by The Franklin Library. Largest book 2 1/2" H x 6 1/4" W x 9 1/2" L.
One book in the collection, Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace, is part of The Christian Library series published by Barbour Publishing. The included titles are: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman; Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana; The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace; Tales of Edgar Allan Poe; A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams; The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Ulysses by James Joyce; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain; The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty; Moby-Dick by Herman Melville; The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper; The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck; Poems by Robert Frost; The Call of the Wild by Jack London; Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow; The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams; The Reivers by William Faulkner; The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; and The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. Title pages confirm the publisher for several items as The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania.
Condition report:
Clean spines and bright gilt decorations. The gilded page edges are well-preserved across the collection.
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