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Auction archive: Lot number 200

Thirty-four volumes from the Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$720
Auction archive: Lot number 200

Thirty-four volumes from the Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$720
Beschreibung:

Title: Thirty-four volumes from the Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series Author: ** Place: Norwalk, CT Publisher: Easton Press Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Thoreau, Henry David Walden, or Life in the Woods. [1981]. * Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection... [1991]. * The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. [1979]. * Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. [1979]. * Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. [1979]. * Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. [1975]. * Plato. Lysis, or Friendship: The Symposium Phaedrus. [1979]. * Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [1977]. * Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. [1978]. * Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. [1979]. * Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. [1979]. * Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling. [1979]. * Melville, Herman. Moby Dick; or, The Whale. [1977]. * The Essayes or Cousels Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon [1980]. * Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. [1978]. * Shaw, George Bernard. Two Plays for Puritans. [1979]. * Aesop's Fables: A New Version Written by Munro Leaf. [1979]. * Grimm's Fairy Tales. [1980]. * Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. [1980]. * Aristotle. Politics & Poetics. [1979]. * Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts & Epilog. Gilt decoration a bit sticky, some paper residue from packaging. 1979]. * The Confessions of St. Augustine. [1979]. * Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to that Which is to Come. [1979]. * Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. [1978]. * Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. [1977]. * Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer or, The Mistakes of a Night. [1978]. * Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. [1975]. * The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin [1976]. * Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers & Sons. [1977]. * The Analects of Confusius. [1976]. * Baudelaire, Charles. Flowers of Evil. [1977]. * Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. [1977]. * The Tales of Guy de Maupassant. Bookplate on half title. [1977]. * A Journal of the Plague Year, &c. [1978]. Together 34 octavo volumes, each bound in a different color of full leather, uniquely decorated in gilt, silk bookmark and endpapers, all edges gilt. Nice collection of this series, this lot is a great way to jump start your own collection of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, as designated by the Easton Press. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine, except for a few volumes with a very slightly used front hinge (a touch over-extended). Item number: 205518

Auction archive: Lot number 200
Auction:
Datum:
22 Oct 2009
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: Thirty-four volumes from the Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series Author: ** Place: Norwalk, CT Publisher: Easton Press Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Thoreau, Henry David Walden, or Life in the Woods. [1981]. * Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection... [1991]. * The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. [1979]. * Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. [1979]. * Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. [1979]. * Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. [1975]. * Plato. Lysis, or Friendship: The Symposium Phaedrus. [1979]. * Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [1977]. * Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. [1978]. * Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. [1979]. * Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. [1979]. * Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling. [1979]. * Melville, Herman. Moby Dick; or, The Whale. [1977]. * The Essayes or Cousels Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon [1980]. * Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. [1978]. * Shaw, George Bernard. Two Plays for Puritans. [1979]. * Aesop's Fables: A New Version Written by Munro Leaf. [1979]. * Grimm's Fairy Tales. [1980]. * Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. [1980]. * Aristotle. Politics & Poetics. [1979]. * Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts & Epilog. Gilt decoration a bit sticky, some paper residue from packaging. 1979]. * The Confessions of St. Augustine. [1979]. * Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to that Which is to Come. [1979]. * Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. [1978]. * Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. [1977]. * Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer or, The Mistakes of a Night. [1978]. * Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. [1975]. * The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin [1976]. * Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers & Sons. [1977]. * The Analects of Confusius. [1976]. * Baudelaire, Charles. Flowers of Evil. [1977]. * Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. [1977]. * The Tales of Guy de Maupassant. Bookplate on half title. [1977]. * A Journal of the Plague Year, &c. [1978]. Together 34 octavo volumes, each bound in a different color of full leather, uniquely decorated in gilt, silk bookmark and endpapers, all edges gilt. Nice collection of this series, this lot is a great way to jump start your own collection of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, as designated by the Easton Press. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine, except for a few volumes with a very slightly used front hinge (a touch over-extended). Item number: 205518

Auction archive: Lot number 200
Auction:
Datum:
22 Oct 2009
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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