Books: Group of Fifty-Six Leather Bound Volumes, 20th c., from the Oxford Library of the World's Greatest Books, with gilt stamped covers and spines,

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Jul 17, 2021

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  Books: Group of Fifty-Six Leather Bound Volumes, 20th c., from the Oxford Library of the World's Greatest Books, with gilt stamped covers and spines, and silk covered end papers, all edges gilt, together with "Who Was Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges, 1984, leather bound, and "Letters to Vicky," 2011, cloth bound, by the Folio Society London, all in pristine condition. (58 Pcs.)

  Condition

  List of titles and condition notes. 1. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition: 217 of 300 copies, 2011. Three Volumes. Condition: covers of the volumes were stuck together, so there is pulling and spotted loss to the leather. 2. The North American Indians, George Catlin, Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition: 50 of 400 copies, 2013. Two Volumes. 3. A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Poems, ed. by Michael Hendricks, Henry W. Simon, and (one still wrapped), The Easton Press, 1995, set of three. 4. William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, ed. by Charles Jasper Sisson, Harper & Row, Publishers, date?. Condition: good, with wear and splitting to gilt on corners 5. Æsop’s Fables, The Easton Press, copyright 1979. 6. The Postman, David Brin, The Easton Press, Signed Edition, 2019. 7. Rhetoric on Poetics, Aristotle. (still wrapped) 8. Politics Poetics, Aristotle. (still wrapped) 9. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, The Easton Press, copyright 1981. 10. John Adams: Party of One, James Grant, The Folio Society, 2008. Condition: slight wear to case, the book is very good. 11. Faust, Goethe, The Easton Press, copyright 1980. 12. The Poems of Robert Browning, The Easton Press. (still wrapped) 13. A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, David Copperfield (x2), & The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens, The Easton Press. (still wrapped) 14. Little Women, Little Men, & Jo’s Boys, Louisa May Alcott, The Easton Press, 2003. 15. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo, The Easton Press. (still wrapped). 16. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne, The Easton Press. (still wrapped). 17. The Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Dante, The Easton Press, 2001. 18. Washington: The Indispensable Man, James Thomas Flexner, The Easton Press. (still wrapped). 19. Disturbing the Universe, Freeman Dyson, The Easton Press, Signed Edition. (still wrapped). 20. Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly, The Easton Press, Signed Edition, 2019. 21. Short Stories, Anton Chekhov, The Easton Press, 1996. Condition: slight wear to embossing on spine. 22. Short Stories, Leo Tolstoy, The Easton Press, 1996. 23. The Odyssey, Homer, The Franklin Library, copyright 1984. Condition: slight scratching to gilt on pages. 24. American Sphinx: Thomas Jefferson, Joseph J. Ellis, The Easton Press. (still wrapped). 25. Walden, Henry David Thoreau, The Easton Press. (still wrapped). 26. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer, The Easton Press, Signed Edition, 2019. 27. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, The Easton Press, copyright 1997. 28. George Washington: The Forge of Experience 1732-1775, James Thomas Flexner, The Easton Press, 2003. 29. George Washington: Anguish and Farewell 1793-1799, James Thomas Flexner, The Easton Press, 203. (still wrapped). 30. Paine, David Freeman Hawke, The Easton Press. (still wrapped). 31. Who’s Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges, H. Pettus Randall, Randall Publishing Co., 1984. 32. The Ideals Treasury of Best Loved Poems, ed. by Patricia A. Pingry, The Easton Press. (still wrapped). 33. Eyes on the Prize, Juan Williams, The Easton Press, Signed Edition. (still wrapped). 34. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Easton Press. (still wrapped). 35. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Easton Press. (still wrapped). 36. The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Franklin Library, copyright 1985. 37. Leadership in Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Easton Press, Signed Edition, 2018. 38. Short Stories, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Easton Press, 1996. (still wrapped). 39. When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold S. Kushner, The Easton Press, Signed Edition, 2019. 40. Faust, Goethe. (still wrapped). 41. Less, Andrew Sean Greer, The Easton Press, Signed Edition. (still wrapped). 42. The Poetry of Robert Frost, ed. by Edward Connery Lathem, The Easton Press, 2005. 43. Letters to Vicky: The Correspondence Between Queen Victoria and Her Daughter Victoria, Empress of Germany, 1858-1901, ed. by Andrew Roberts, The Folio Society, 2011. Condition: slight wear to case, book is very good. 44. Butler’s Lives of the Saints, ed. by Herbert J. Thurston and Donald Attwater, The Easton Press, 1995. Four Volumes. __________________________________________________________________________ ALL PROPERTY IS SOLD "AS IS." NO STATEMENT REGARDING CONDITION OF ANY ITEM, WHETHER IT IS MADE ORALLY AT THE AUCTION OR ANY OTHER TIME, OR IN WRITING IN THE CATALOGUE OR ELSEWHERE, SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR ASSUMPTION OF LIABILITY.
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