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Lot 3065

(13) FRANKLIN 1ST-EDITION LEATHER-BOUND LIBRARY SHELF BOOKS

Estimate: $200 - $400
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 13) Library shelf books: various literature subjects, all with gilt-embossed leather binding, raised spine bands, gilt page ends, published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, all stated limited first editions, published exclusively for the First Edition Society, including: (1) "Full Disclosure," by William Safire, copyright 1977, 535 pages; (1)  "Proteus," by Morris West, copyright 1979, 305 pages; (1) "The Human Factor," by Graham Greene, copyright 1978, 306 pages; (1) "History: A Novel," by Elsa Morante, copyright 1977, 630 pages; (1) "Evidence of Love," by Shirley Ann Grau, copyright 1977, 243 pages; (1) "The Walnut Door," by John Hersey, copyright 1977, 227 pages; (1) "The Bold and Magnificent Dream," by Bruce Catton and William B. Catton, copyright 1978, 643 pages; (1) "Selected Poems: 1923-1975," by Robert Penn Warren, copyright 1976, 294 pages; (1) "The Snow Leopard," by Peter Matthiessen, copyright 1978, 348 pages; (1) "The Honorable Schoolboy," by John le Carre, copyright 1977, 546 pages; (1) "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century," by Barbara W. Tuchman, copyright 1978, 735 pages; (1) "Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917," by Harrison E. Salisbury, copyright 1977, 763 pages; together with (1) "Grimm's Fairy Tales," published by Canterbury Classics, San Diego, copyright 2010, 652 pages; largest: approx 9.5"h, 7"w, 2"d, 30lbs total 

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