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Auction archive: Lot number 126

Collection of 118 volumes, mostly from the Franklin Library leather-bound ''Collected Stories of The World’s Greatest Writers'' series, plus 93 Franklin Library pamphlets

Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$3,000
Auction archive: Lot number 126

Collection of 118 volumes, mostly from the Franklin Library leather-bound ''Collected Stories of The World’s Greatest Writers'' series, plus 93 Franklin Library pamphlets

Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$3,000
Beschreibung:

Title: Collection of 118 volumes, mostly from the Franklin Library leather-bound ''Collected Stories of The World’s Greatest Writers'' series, plus 93 Franklin Library pamphlets Author: ** Place: Franklin Center, PA Publisher: Franklin Library, et al. Date: [Mostly 1970's-1990's] Description: Comprises: 101 Franklin Library books bound in full gilt-decorated morocco; 13 International Collectors Library bound in leatherette; The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotated, published by Greenwich House in full padded leather, quarto size; and 3 miscellaneous cloth-bound volumes by various publishers. * Plus, 93 “Notes from the Editors” Franklin Library pamphlets (that accompanied the books in this series). Together, 118 hardcover volumes and 93 wrapper-bound volumes. Classic authors by the Franklin Library include: Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen Ambrose Bierce, Boccaccio, Camus, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll Willa Cather, Cervantes, Chaucer, Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dumas, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene Zane Grey, The Brother Grimm, Dashiell Hammett, Hemingway, Henry James James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Melville, Nabokov, Orwell, Poe, Damon Runyon, Steinbeck, Stevenson, Swift, Dylan Thomas, Thurber, Tolstoy, Twain, Jules Verne, Voltaire, Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Wolfe, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Top edges a bit dusty, other occasional light wear; mostly in fine condition. Item number: 164586

Auction archive: Lot number 126
Auction:
Datum:
29 Sep 2005
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Collection of 118 volumes, mostly from the Franklin Library leather-bound ''Collected Stories of The World’s Greatest Writers'' series, plus 93 Franklin Library pamphlets Author: ** Place: Franklin Center, PA Publisher: Franklin Library, et al. Date: [Mostly 1970's-1990's] Description: Comprises: 101 Franklin Library books bound in full gilt-decorated morocco; 13 International Collectors Library bound in leatherette; The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotated, published by Greenwich House in full padded leather, quarto size; and 3 miscellaneous cloth-bound volumes by various publishers. * Plus, 93 “Notes from the Editors” Franklin Library pamphlets (that accompanied the books in this series). Together, 118 hardcover volumes and 93 wrapper-bound volumes. Classic authors by the Franklin Library include: Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen Ambrose Bierce, Boccaccio, Camus, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll Willa Cather, Cervantes, Chaucer, Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dumas, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene Zane Grey, The Brother Grimm, Dashiell Hammett, Hemingway, Henry James James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Melville, Nabokov, Orwell, Poe, Damon Runyon, Steinbeck, Stevenson, Swift, Dylan Thomas, Thurber, Tolstoy, Twain, Jules Verne, Voltaire, Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Wolfe, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Top edges a bit dusty, other occasional light wear; mostly in fine condition. Item number: 164586

Auction archive: Lot number 126
Auction:
Datum:
29 Sep 2005
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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