Franklin Library, The: Classics (set of 28 titles)
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. Limited Edition. Full leather binding in royal colors of reds, golds, greens, blacks, browns, etc. Gold stamping with gold detail; gold on the text block edges. 8vo, set of 28 issues from The Franklin Library collection. Full leather, ribbon page marker, and gold text block edging on each. Author signatures by: Joyce Carol Oates, Bruce Catton, John Fowles, John Cheever, and John Kenneth Galbraith. All books exhibit very good. Exceptions: The Ambassadors by Henry James (1980) [note: this copy exhibits some foxing on the back cover with waving pages towards the back], in addition some of the titles have color fading on the end papers. Item #183
List of titles in this set include (years indicate Franklin Library publishing date): War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk (1978), Full Disclosure by William Safire (1977), Them by Joyce Carol Oates SIGNED (1979), Faust by Johann Wolfgang con Goethe (1979), A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton SIGNED (1977), The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles SIGNED (1979), The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever SIGNED (1978), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ed. by John Bigelow (1979), Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever by William Saroyan (1976), Oresteia by Aeschylus (1980), Selected Letters of William Faulkner ed. by Joseph Blotner (1976), The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (1978), W.H. Auden: Collected Poems ed. by Edward Mendelson (1976), Honore de Balzac by Pere Goriot (1977), The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith SIGNED (1978), Marry Me: A Romance by John Updike (1976), Proteus by Morris West (1979), The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre (1977), The Ambassadors by Henry James (1980), The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (1987), The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel DeFoe (1978), The Bold and Magnificent Dream by Brice and William B. Catton (1978), The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe (1974), Stories by Guy de Maupassant (1980), Five Stories by Thomas Mann (1977), Walden: or Life in the Woods by Henry D. Thoreau (1976), Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake (1980), and Getting Up and Going Home by Robert Anderson.
Price: $1,800.00