(lot of 10) Books: The Franklin Library, all limited first editions, leather binding with gold tooling, gilt page ends, raised spine bands and sewn-in bookmarks, including: (1) "Creek Mary's Blood," by Dee Brown, copyright 1980, 398 pages, (1) 'The Ghost Writer," by Philip Roth, copyright 1979, 159 pages, (1) "Getting Up and Going Home," by Robert Anderson, copyright 1978, 257 pages, (1) "The Alcestiad," by Thornton Wilder, copyright 1977, 170 pages, (1) "Bread Upon the Waters," by Irwin Shaw, copyright 1981, 491 pages, (1) "Selected Letters of James Thurber," copyright 1981, 237 pages, (1) "A Coat of Varnish," by C.P. Snow, copyright 1979, 346 pages, (1) "The Spectator Bird," by Wallace Stegner, copyright 1976, 267 pages, (1) "Dublin's Lives," by Bernard Malamud, copyright 1979, 449 pages, (1) "A God Against the Gods," by Allen Drury, copyright 1976, 407 pages, largest: approx 9.25"h, 6.5"w, 1.75"d, 18.5lbs total **Provenance: A local Austin family's Durham, United Kingdom heirloom collection**

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