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“The World’s Popular Classics”, Art-Type Edition, 34 Volumes - $2,500 (Fairfield, CT)
330 Reef Road near Fairfield
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Seriously! 80-year-old books? THESE ARE AMAZING AND QUITE RARE! Feel the history in your hands, enjoy reading the classics WITH the classic editions. Nothing speaks of sophistication, education, class, character like a bookshelf full of antique books. Elevate your home, library, or bookshelf with this unique collection. Individual volumes can be sold. Individual pages can be sold. Individual plates (drawing images) can be sold. The whole collection could be used for an amazing art project. Although it'd be a shame to break these apart.
Bring a bit of old-world beauty and class to your bookshelves with this 34-volume collection of classics. Beautifully leather-bound spines with attractive lettering and lovely spine patina. Yellowing pages are a joy to read. Individual plates (pictures, images) typically sell between $20.00 and $25.00 each. Individual volumes sell for $200 to $500. Most often small sets are found containing 5 to 20 volumes. This set of 34 volumes represents a rare find.
Hardcover: Pages: clean, ivory, tight, front is tanned. Cover: tan textured boards, variously colored back strips, gilt titles to black spine blocks; modest shelf wear. Books vary in size but are all approximately 8.25” (21 cm) tall, 5.75” (14.6 cm) deep, and range from 1” (2 cm) to 1.75” (4.5 cm) wide.
Books Inc. was established in 1938 by Lewis Mulford Adams, who was earlier president of the printer J. J. Little; Ives Company (1916-1931), established the Kingsport (Tennessee) Press (1923) and Colonial Press, Inc. (1931). Books, Inc. was a purveyor of inexpensive, copyright-free hardcover reprint books from the late 1930s onward. The World’s Popular Classics a reprint series from the latter half of the 20th century. Reprints appear through the 1970s although most likely the series was mostly printed in the 1940s and 1950s.
1. Aristotle Selections Translated by F. H. Peters, M.A.
2. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
3. Candide by Voltaire
4. Cicero’s Orations Literally Translated with Explanatory Notes by C. D. Younge M. A.
5. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
6. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
7. Homer’s Odyssey Translated by Alexander Pope with Valuable Notes and Commentaries
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
9. Jean Valjean An Adaptation of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
10. Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
11. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
12. Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
13. Masterpieces of Mystery by Edgar Allan Poe
14. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
15. Nana by Emile Zola
16. Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
17. Plato’s The Republic Translated into English By Benjamin Jowett, M.A.
18. Price and Prejudice by Jane Austen
19. Sapho by Alphonse Daudet
20. Selections From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
21. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
22. Short Stories of de Maupassant
23. Silas Marner The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot
24. The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, Samuel Clemens
25. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Samuel Clemens
26. The Fables of Aesop Based on the Texts of L ’Estrange and Croxall
27. The House of the Seven Gables A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28. The Hatchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
29. The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
30. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
31. The Sketch Book by Washington Irving
32. The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson, A.M.
33. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
34. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte