1970s Vintage Franklin Library Collection Limited Edition Books - Set of 70 Books from 'The 100 Greatest Books of All Time collection.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne is fully leather bound with beautiful covers and contains gorgeous and rich silk moire endpapers, raised spine hubs, sewn-in ribbon marker; high-quality paper, sewn pages for strength and durability. Accented in 22k gold.
All other books are Imitation Leather, books have silver decorations on the spine and covers as well as edges, raised spine hubs, sewn pages for strength and durability. Books are unread. Clean and bright interior text pages. A beautiful set.
Books include: (3 have water damage at top, titles are marked **)
A Bell For Adano - John Hersey - 1986
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -1980
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - 1980
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope - 1982
Candide - Voltaire - 1979
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer - 1981
Collected Poems - Marianne Moore - 1984
Comedies - Moliere - 1985
** Crime and Punishment - Feodor Dostoevsky - 1982
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - 1980
Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - 1981
Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri - 1983
Don Quixote de La Mancha - Cervantes - 1979
Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1985
Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen - 1993
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev - 1984
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1981
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - 1991
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift - 1979
In Memoriam and Other Poems - Alfred Lord Tennyson - 1984
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott - 1992
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 1981
John Brown's Body - Stephen Vincent Benet - 1986
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman - 1979
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad - 1980
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 1979
Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann - 1981
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville - 1979
Paradise Lost - John Milton - 1979
Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac - 1980
Plays - Anton Chekhov - 1979
Plays - Henrik Ibsen - 1983
Poems - John Keats - 1993
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 1980
Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy - 1980
Rhetoric on Poetics - Aristotle - 1981
**Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - 1979
Romantic Poets - William Blake to Edgar Allan Poe - 1982
Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1979
Selected Dialogues - Plato - 1983
Selected Essays - Michel de Montaigne - 1982
Selected Lives - Plutarch - 1982
Selected Plays - William Shakespeare - 1981
Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner - 1979
Stories - Guy de Maupassant - 1983
Tales From The Arabian Nights - Sir Richard F. Burton - 1980
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe - 1979
Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener - 1986
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - 1991
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - 1979
The Aeneid - Virgil -1982
The Ambassadors - Henry James -1983
The Annals of Tacitus - - Alfred John Church - 1982
The Confessions of Saint Augustine - Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1982
The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais -1982
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1992
The Iliad - Homer - 1979
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - 1981
The Odyssey - Homer - 1979
** The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James - 1984
The Red and the Black - Stendhal - 1981
The Red Book of Animal Stories - 1983
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding - 1980
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1984
Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne - 1981
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - 1978
Ulysses - James Joyce - 1979
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 1981
Walden - Henry D. Thoreau - 1983
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 1979