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Sun, Jul 20, 2025 11:00AM EDT
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Lot 3064

(12) FRANKLIN, EASTON PRESS, & OXFORD LEATHER-BOUND LIBRARY SHELF BOOKS

Estimate: $150 - $350
Starting Bid
$100

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$100 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$50,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000

(lot of 12) Books: literature and history, each with leather bindings, gilt-embossed lettering and gilt page ends, including: (6) published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, (one) "David Copperfield," by Charles Dickens, copyright 1980, 803 pages, (one) "Henrik Ibsen: Four Plays," translated by Eva Le Gallienne, copyright 1979, 403 pages, (one) "Barchester Towers," by Anthony Trollope, copyright 1982, 534 pages, (one) "Romantic Poets: William Blake to Edgar Allen Poe," edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, copyright 1982, 461 pages, (one) "Michel De Montaigne: Twenty-Nine Essays," selected by Mortimer J. Adler, copyright 1982, 482 pages, (one) "The Confessions of Saint Augustine," translated by Edward B. Pusey, from "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" collection, copyright 1976, 395 pages, (5) published by Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, a total of three from "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" collection, comprising: (one) "Moby Dick," by Henry Melville, copyright 1977, 615 pages, (one) "The Stranger," by Albert Camus, copyright 1993, (one) "Great Expectations," by Charles Dickens, copyright 1979, 457 pages, together with two from "The Library of the Presidents" collection, accompanied by pamphlet of Collector's Notes, comprising: (one) "Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President," by Marquis James, copyright 1964, 627 pages, (one) "Washington: An Abridgement in One Volume (by Richard Harwell) of the Seven-Volume George Washington," by Douglas Southall Freeman, copyright 1968, 780 pages, (1) "Wuthering Heights," by Emily Bronte, published by The Oxford University Press, from "The Oxford Library of The World's Great Books" collection, copyright 1983, 395 pages, largest: approx 9 5/8"h, 7.5"w, 1.5"d, 29.5lbs total 

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