Auction: June 22, 2014

Lot #601: Easton Press "Greatest Books Ever Written" Book Assortment

Eighty-two out of one hundred books with satin moire end papers, 22k gold decoration on edges, covers and spines, full leather bindings, archival papers and satin ribbon bookmarks including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle, The Aeneid by Virgil, Aesop’s Fables by Aesop, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Analects of Confucius by Confucius, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Billy Budd by Herman Melville, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Browning – Collected Poems by Robert Browning, Candide by Voltaire, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Cherry Orchard/Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine of Hippo, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, Emily Dickinson – Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, History of Early Rome by Livy, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, Iliad by Homer, Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, John Keats - Collected Poems by John Keats, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant, Odyssey by Homer, Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Paradise Lost by John Milton, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Politics by Aristotle, The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, The Republic by Plato, Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, Silas Marner by George Eliot, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Tales from the Arabian Nights by Richard Burton, Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, The Talisman by Walter Scott, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, Walden by Henry David Thoreau, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and William Butler Yeats – Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats