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13734 — Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1980. Hardcover. Very good. 53 volumes illustrated. In the publisher's full leather in various sizes and colors. Silk endpapers all edges gilt silk ribbons etc. Please read carefully: Overall a very good set with some notable condition issues. This particular set sat in a bookcase undisturbed for decades. Some of the volumes perhaps 1/4 of them were exposed to sun for part of the day and thus show fading to the spine. Many volumes have varying levels of scuffing/spotting to the gilt edges see worst examples in images provided. Nearly all of the volumes have the previous owner's bookplate usually attached to a front blank page though sometimes on the endpapers. We noted one volume which shows a dampstain to the front endpapers though the exterior and interior are not visibly affected. Many volumes are quite fresh and lovely and they all look terrific on the shelf. Issued serially over several years the set is difficult to find complete. Unlike some of the larger sets done by Easton Press and Franklin Library this one will only require one smallish bookcase to display. An excellent sampling of American novels poetry and even some non-fiction Lewis and Clark's Journals writings of Lincoln and Jefferson etc. Please note that overseas postage will be costly perhaps prohibitively so. <br /> <br /> This set even with noted flaws is still gift-quality and can be proudly displayed read and enjoyed by its next owner. <br /> <br /> A full list of titles follows: <br /> <br /> 1. American Indian Legends <br /> 2. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser <br /> 3. Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe<br /> 4. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes <br /> 5. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace<br /> 6. Billy Budd and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville<br /> 7. Call of the Wild by Jack London<br /> 8. Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau<br /> 9. Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe <br /> 10. Daisy Miller by Henry James<br /> 11. Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper<br /> 12. Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New York by Washington Irving <br /> 13. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton <br /> 14. House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne <br /> 15. Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain<br /> 16. Jungle by Upton Sinclair <br /> 17. Lewis and Clark: Journals of the Expedition – 2 Vol Set <br /> 18. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain<br /> 19. Literary Writings of Abraham Lincoln <br /> 20. Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy<br /> 21. Maggie by Stephan Crane<br /> 22. Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale<br /> 23. Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington<br /> 24. Notorious Jumping Frog & Other Stories - Mark Twain<br /> 25. Old Creole Days by George Washington Cable<br /> 26. Omoo by Herman Melville<br /> 27. Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman <br /> 28. Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper <br /> 29. Poems of Emily Dickinson <br /> 30. Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier<br /> 31. Poems of Longfellow <br /> 32. Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson <br /> 33. Poems of William Cullen Bryant <br /> 34. Poor Richard’s Almanacks by Benjamin Franklin<br /> 35. Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper<br /> 36. Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain<br /> 37. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser <br /> 38. Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Rip Van Winkle and other stories by Washington Irving <br /> 39. Stories of O. Henry<br /> 40. Tales of Soldiers & Civilians by Ambrose Bierce<br /> 41. Tales of the Gold Rush by Bret Harte<br /> 42. Turn of the Screw by Henry James<br /> 43. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne <br /> 44. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana <br /> 45. Typee by Herman Melville <br /> 46. Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris<br /> 47. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington<br /> 48. The Virginian by Owen Wister<br /> 49. Washington Square by Henry James<br /> 50. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau <br /> 51. White Fang by Jack London<br /> 52. Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan by Louis Untermeyer <br /> 53. Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Easton Press hardcover