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  • Don Quixote De La Mancha - Cervantes - The Franklin Library - Jose and Luis Jimenez Y Aranda Illustrations

    Miguel de Cervantes

    Hardcover (The Franklin Library, Jan. 1, 1979)
    This book is part of the Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature.

  • A Bell for Adano

    John Hersey, John Thompson

    Leather Bound (The Franklin Library, Jan. 1, 1978)
    Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed, limited edition. Signed by Hersey on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. Accompanied by the quite scarce accompanying twenty-two page "Notes From the Editors" commentary, laid in. Illustrations by Mitchell Hooks. Octavo, 291 pp. As New; immaculate and pristine. See scans. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the Signed, Limited Edition of Hersey's 1945 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the bonding of an American officer and the townspeople of Adano, in Italy, during World War II. Artist Mitchell Hooki echoes the mood in nice detail. Rich Forest topgrain leather binding, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, Old Gold moire endpapers, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is 60-pound Franklin Library Eggshell Wove; text set in 11-point Goudy Olde Style typeface. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless, and protectively archived since arrival; page-marker has in fact never been moved. With the author's newly-contibuted "A Special Message to Subscribers from John Hersey" prefacing the novel, and the seldom-retained "Notes from the Editors" which arrived with original shipments of the piece. Please see all scans. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. l-frnkln2

  • Rebecca

    Daphne Du Maurier, Hilary Mosberg

    Leather Bound (Franklin Library, March 15, 1988)
    This beautifully crafted classic mystery novel has gold-on-red boards, a ribbed spine, and gilt edges.

  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Hardcover (The Franklin Library, Jan. 1, 1980)
    Collectors Edition Brown coloured Leather spine with gilt lettering and gilt design on front, back and end of pages
    Z+

  • Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    Leather Bound (Franklin Library, Sept. 3, 1980)
    Part of The Franklin Library's collection of special edition printings of The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Black faux leather and gilt design with raised spine, gilt page edges and illustrations.

  • The Troll Garden: Obscure Destinies

    Willa Cather, Jim Campbell

    Leather Bound (Franklin Library, Jan. 1, 1981)
    None

  • Laughing Boy.

    Oliver La Farge

    Hardcover (Franklin Library, March 15, 1977)
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Novel in 1930. Bound in the publisher's original brown composition leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers.

  • David Copperfield by Charles; illustrated by Degen, Paul Dickens

    Paul Dickens Charles; illustrated by Degen

    Hardcover (Franklin Library, July 5, 1724)
    Vintage Book from the Franklin Mint Library

  • Ulysses

    Kenneth Francis Dewey, James Joyce

    Imitation Leather (The Franklin Library, )
    FRANKLIN LIBRARY HARDCOVER BOOK

  • David Copperfield

    Charles Dickens

    Leather Bound (Franklin Library, July 6, 1976)
    This limited edition of David Copperfield, Dickens' masterpiece, was published by Franklin Library in the series The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. It is bound in full leather with 22-carat gilding and decoration.

  • Swann's way

    Marcel Proust

    Leather Bound (Franklin Library, Aug. 16, 1982)
    The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and illustrated by Grau-Sala. Bound in the publisher's original brown composition leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers.

  • The Divine Comedy

    John Ciardi Dante Alighieri, Gustave Doré

    Hardcover (The Franklin Library, March 15, 1983)
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