Description: Franklin Library The World's Best Loved Books, Complete in 100 volumes The books are full leather and have that nice leather smell. No smoke or mildew. These books are in excellent condition overall with some wear. One book (pictured) has a stain on the front cover. Several have white paint residue on the bottom of the covers where they were put back on a shelf before the paint was dry at some point. There are a few bumped corners and some other minor wear as well. There are no bookplates in the books. This is a very difficult set to find assembled. I've dealt in Easton and Franklin books for many years and this is the first complete Best Loved Books set I have owned. They are rarely listed for sale at this reasonable of a price. The gold on the covers looks like new. The end pages show no fading. The gilt on the edge of the pages is in excellent overall condition overall with an occasional scratch here and there and some typical fading of the gilt in this set. The list of the books is as follows: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - 1978 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain - 1978 Aesop's Fables - Aesop - 1982 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - 1981 Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne - 1983 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - 1984 Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope - 1983 Best of Saki - H. H. Munro - 1985 The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk - 1980 Candide - Voltaire - 1980 Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling - 1978 Collected Poems - Edgar Allan Poe - 1983 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1978 The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper - 1985 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1980 Eight Tales - Joseph Conrad - 1985 Essays: First and Second - Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1985 Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen - 1977 Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev - 1983 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway - 1977 Four Plays - Henrik Ibsen - 1981 From Here to Eternity - James Jones - 1978 Giant - Edna Ferber - 1979 Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 1978 The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck - 1977 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 1980 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - 1977 Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - 1981 History of Tom Jones - Henry Fielding - 1978 House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1982 In Memoriam and Other Poems - Alfred Lord Tennyson - 1984 Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott - 1978 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 1980 The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper - 1981 Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain - 1982 Light in August - William Faulkner - 1979 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - 1980 Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad - 1981 Lorna Doone - Richard D. Blackmore - 1985 Lost Horizon - James Hilton - 1981 Lust for Life - Irving Stone - 1980 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 1979 Main Street - Sinclair Lewis - 1979 The Man of Property - John Galsworthy - 1985 Masque of the Red Death & Other Tales - Edgar Allan Poe - 1981 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - 1984 Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe - 1983 The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins - 1984 Mutiny on the Bounty - Nordhoff & Hall - 1978 Nana - Emile Zola - 1982 The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman - 1981 Paradise Lost - John Milton - 1984 Peasants and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov - 1977 Pere Goriot - Honore De Balzac - 1980 The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan - 1981 Plays - Eugene O'Neill - 1980 Plays - Anton Chekhov - 1979 Poems - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1981 Poems - William Shakespeare - 1980 Poems - John Keats - 1984 Portrait of a Lady - Henry James - 1983 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 1979 The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope - 1984 The Red and the Black - Stendhal - 1984 The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane - 1983 The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy - 1980 Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - 1985 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - translation Edward Fitzgerald - 1979 The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1985 The Sea Wolf - Jack London - 1980 Selected Poems - Walt Whitman - 1983 Selected Tales - Henry James - 1984 Seven Comedies - William Shakespeare - 1983 Silas Marner - George Eliot - 1982 Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser - 1982 Six Tragedies - William Shakespeare - 1982 Sixteen Stories - Bret Harte - 1985 Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. - Washington Irving - 1985 Snow White and Other Tales - The Brothers Grimm - 1978 Stories - Guy De Maupassant - 1981 Stories of Three Continents - Ernest Hemingway - 1979 Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss - 1985 Tales of Genji: The Uji Chapter - Murasaki Shikibu - 1983 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 1985 Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1984 Tales from the Arabian Nights - Sir Richard Burton - 1980 Tales from The East and West - W. Somerset Maugham - 1979 Three Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens - 1980 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - 1978 The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber - 1980 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1978 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - 1978 Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana - 1984 Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris - 1982 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 1979 The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith - 1984 Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau - 1983 The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum - 1979 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 1978 The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - 1981 The editors notes are included, but are in somewhat poor condition. Please see photos. We try to describe as accurately as possible so you will be satisfied with your purchase. PLEASE NOTE: The Brothers Karamazov is pictured but not included. The Poems of John Donne is not pictured but is included. All books are sent with insurance via USPS Media Mail.
Price: 4499 USD
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
End Time: 2024-12-03T18:00:58.000Z
Shipping Cost: 306.38 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Limited Edition, 100 Greatest Books of All Time
Author: various
Publisher: Franklin Library
Topic: Literature
Subject: Literature & Fiction