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GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD,
GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, 20 VOL. Various Sizes Leather bound with gilt trim, including: Sir Francis Bacon, ""Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, New Atlantis"; Charles Darwin, "The Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection"; Henry Fielding, "The History of Tom Jones, Vol. I"; Henry Fielding, "The History of Tom Jones, Vol. II"; Galen, "Hippocrates Writings"; Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"; Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, "Faust"; Homer, "The Iliad"; Homer, "The Odyssey"; Herman Mellville, Moby-Dick"; Michel de Montaigne, "Essays, Book Two"; Gilbert Murray, Translator, "The Complete Plays of Aeschylus"; Plutarch, "The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, vol. I"; Edward B. Pusey, Translator, "The Confessions of Saint Augustine"; Francois Rabelais, "The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel, vol I"; Francois Rabelais, "The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel, vol II"; "The Plays of Sophocles"; P. Cornelius Tacitus, "The Anals and Histories"; Thucydides, "The History of the Peloponnesian War"; Virgil, "The Aeneid";
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FRANKLIN LIBRARY 100 GREATEST BOOKS
FRANKLIN LIBRARY 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIMES, 60 VOL. Various Sizes 60 vol. Each leather bound with gilt edging, including, Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams", 1982; "The Confessions of Saint Augustine", 1976; Aristophanes, "Five Comedies", 1982 (2 copies); Sir Francis Bcon, "Essays Advancement of Learning New Atlantis", 1982;Charles Baudelaire, "The Flowers of Evil", 1977; William Blake, "Songs of Innocence and of Experience", 1980; Geovanni Boccaccio, "The Decameron", 1970; Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights", 1975; John Bunyan, "The Pilgrim's Progress", 1976; Joseph Conrad, "Lord Jim", 1977; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote de La Mancha", 1976; Charles Darwin, "The Origin of Species", 1975; Daniel Defoe, "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders", 1978; Charles Dickens "David Copperfield", 1976; Feodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment", 1975; George Elliot, "The Mill on the Floss", 1982; Euripides, "1976; William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury", 1976; Henry Fielding, "Tom Jones, 1979; Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", 1978; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust", 1979; Pere Gotiot, "Balzac", 1977; Thomas Hardy, "The Return of the Native", 1978; Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms", 1975; Henrik Ibsen, "Six Plays", 1977; Henry James, The Ambassadors", 1980; Henry James, "Nine Tales", 1977 (2 copies); Franz Kafka, "The Trial", 1977; D.H. Lawrence, "Women in Love", 1979; Thomas Mann, "Five Stories", 1977; Herman Melville; "Moby-Dick", 1974; John Stewart Mill, "Political Writings", 1982; Moliere, "Seven Plays", 1980; Blaise Pascal, "Notes from the Editors", 1979; Patronius, "Satyricon", 1980; Plutarch, "Twelve Illustrious Lives", 1981; Edgar Allan Poe, "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe", 1974; Marcel Proust, "Swann's Way, 1982 (2 copies); Francois Rabelais, "Gargantua and Pantagruel", 1978; Jean Racine, "Six Tragedies", 1982 (2 copies); Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Political Writings, ", 1982; William Shakespeare, "Six Histories", 1981; William Shakespeare, "Tragedies",1975; Bernard Shaw, "Three Plays", 1979; "The Tragedies of Sophocles", 1981; Laurence Sterne, "The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", 1980; Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island", 1975; Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels", 1974 (2 copies); William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair, "1977; Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1976 (2 copies); Loe Tolstoy, "War and Peace", 1981; Ivan Turgenev, "Fathers and Sons", 1981; Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", 1975; Emile Zola, "Nana", 1981.
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(21) EASTON PRESS & OTHER
(21) EASTON PRESS & OTHER LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS(lot of 21) Books published by Easton Press and other fine publishers, some signed first editions (SFE), leather binding, gilt page ends, many appear unread, titles: (1) Paradise Lost, Milton; (1) Robinson Crusoe, Defoe; (1) The Thantos, Percy (SFE); (1) William Shakespeare; (1) Pere Guriot, Balzac: (2 Vol.) On War, Clausewitz; (1) Cycles of American History, Scheslinger, (SFE); (1) Tom Jones, Field; (1) Tales of Arabian Nights, Burton; (1) What Mad Universe, Brown; (1) Greek Tragedies; (1) Kingdom of the Wicked, Burgess (SFE); (1) Battle for the American, Parkman;
(1) Depths of Glory, Stone; (1) Crusade in Europe, Eisenhower; (1) Overlord, Hastings; (1) Son of the Morning Star, Connell; The Counter Life, Roth (SFE); (1) Gateway, Pohl; (1) From Manassas to Appomattox, Longstreet; 47lbs total
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(12) LIKE NEW EASTON PRESS
(12) LIKE NEW EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS(lot of 12) Books published by The Easton Press, leather bound, gilt page ends, gilt lettering at spines with many having raised spine bands, fabric end sheets many with interior illustrations, all appear as unread or close to unread, all in excellent condition, titles include:
"On the Origin of Species," "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," "The Sea Wolf," "Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout," "The Confessions of Saint Augustine," "Two Plays," "Aesop's Fables," "Tristram Shandy," "The Portrait of a Lady," "Tom Jones," "Plato," "Poems of Yeats," largest: approx 10.25"h, 7"w, 1.75"d; 30.5lbs total
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GROUP OF LEATHER EASTON PRESS BOOKS
GROUP OF LEATHER EASTON PRESS BOOKS (56 VOLUMES) 56 Volumes to include Last of the Mohicans, Of Mice and Men, The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, Divine Comedy, Doctor Zhivago, Brothers Karamazov, Two Plays (Moliere), Aesop's Fables, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Sons & Lovers, The Aeneid, Three Musketerrs, Candide, Tom Jones, Huckleberry Finn, Treasure Island, Little Women, On The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, Brave New World, Fathers and Sons, Scarlet Letter, Two Plays (Chekov) Paradise Lost, The Prince, The Red Badge of Courage, Goethe, She Stoops to Conquer, Oedipus the King, Essays (Emerson), Oresteia, The Birs & The Frogs, The Iliad of Homer (Pope), Don Quixote, Walden, Berlin Diary, End of a Berlin Diary, Leaves of Grass, Tale of Two Cities, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Politics & Poetics, Jungle Books, Pride and Prejudice, The Republic, Great Expectations, Cancer Ward, Sea Wolf, David Copperfield, The Red and the Black, The Mill on the Floss, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Shakespeare- Comedies, tragedies, and Histories. Condition: All excellent, most apparently unread, most/all with former owner's Easton Press bookplate
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LOT OF 4 EASTON PRESS LITERARY
LOT OF 4 EASTON PRESS LITERARY CLASSICSLot of 4 Easton Press Literary Classics. Fully bound in genuine leather. 22k gold deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine. Printed on acid-neutral paper. Sewn Pages. Gilded Page Ends. Satin Ribbon Page Marker. Lot includes: The History of Tom Jones by A. Foundling, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, Green Mansions by W.H Hudson and Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.
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79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND
79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS80 leather bound books - 79 Easton Press and 1 Harvard Classics. 77 Easton Press The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written: Louisa May Alcott Little Women, Victor Hugo Les Miserables, Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, Leo Tolstoy War & Peace, Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo, Jack London The Sea-Wolf, Henry James The Portrait of a Lady, Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book, Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac, Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin, Charles Dickens David Copperfield, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust, George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and Candida, John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Confucius The Analects of Confucius, Herman Melville Billy Budd and Benito Cereno, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary, Bram Stoker Dracula, Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy, Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote, Henry David Thoreau Walden, Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Guy de Maupassant The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot Silas Marner, Herman Melville Moby Dick, Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, George Orwell Animal Farm, Aesop Aesop's Fables, Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer, Robert Browning The Poems of Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, H.G. Wells The Time Machine, Homer The Iliad, St. Augustine The Confessions of St. Augustine, Henry Fielding Tom Jones, John Milton Paradise Lost, Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, James Fenimore Copper The Last of the Mohicans, Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage, Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, Richard F. Burton The Arabian Knights, Thomas Paine Rights of Man, Sir Walter Scott The Talisman, Machiavelli The Prince, Sophocles Oedipus the King, Joseph Conrad Lord Jim, Livy History of Early Rome, John Boccaccio The Decameron, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Emily Dickinson Poems of Emily Dickinson, Virgil Aeneid, Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, Walter Scott Ivanhoe, Homer The Odyssey, Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh, Nathaniel Hawthorn The Scarlet Letter, Grimm's Fairytales, Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers; 1 Easton Press Greatest Books Ever Written: Herman Melville Moby Dick; 1 Easton Press Millenium Edition Harvard Classics Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and English Traits; 1 Harvard Classics The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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(3) LOT OF WALKING CANE
(3) LOT OF WALKING CANE STICKDESCRIPTION: (3) A grouping of three canes. 1. Brass duck head cigar smuggling cane wood stick hollowed out with inlays of brass. Unscrews into three pieces. 2. A handcrafted walnut wood cane made from an antique brass doorknob. Knob originally curated from an old plantation house built in 1856. White oak wood is from the Mobile Bay Delta. Cane has brass plaque mounting "Handcrafted Original Tom Jones" 3. A black metal collapsible cane with dark wood handle.  CIRCA:20th Ct. ORIGIN: USA DIMENSIONS: (Duck) H: 35.25" (Doorknob) H: 33.5 (Metal) H: 36"  CONDITION: Great condition. See lot description for details on item condition. More detailed condition requests can be obtained via email (info@akibaantiques.com) or SMS (305) 333-4134. Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Akiba Antiques shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
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THREE SOUVENIR DECKS.Three Souvenir
THREE SOUVENIR DECKS.Three Souvenir Decks. Includes Golden West Southern Pacific, Van Noy Interstate: ca. 1910. 52 + J + Map Card + Bklt+ OB. Near mint. Hoch. SR16, White Pass & Youkan Route, USPC, Cincinnati: ca. 1910, 52 +J + 2EC + Map Card + OB, near mint. Hoch. SR31 and Rocky Mountain, Tom Jones, Denver: ca. 1899, 52 + J + EC + OB, near mint. Hoch. S59.
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TWO ANTIQUE SOUVENIR DECKS.Two
TWO ANTIQUE SOUVENIR DECKS.Two Antique Souvenir Decks. Includes Paris Exposition, USPC, Denver: Tom Jones, 1901. 52 + J (corner clipped) + OB (Compliments of Krohn Bros.). Mint, with oval photo scenes from the Paris Exposition. Hoch. SX17; and St. Louis World’s Fair, St. Louis: Samuel Cupples Envelope Co., 1904. 52 + J + EC + OB. Excellent. Oval photo scenes from the fair on each card. Hoch. SX21.
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FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER
FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER COLLECTOR'S EDITION BOOKSFranklin Library Leather Collector's Edition of 26 Books, all having gilt edging, marble end papers and silk ribbon, comprising the following: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott; Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana; A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway; The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; Don Quixote De La Mancha by Cervantes; Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev; Twenty-Two Years; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope; Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; Guy de Maupassant Selected Stories; Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy; The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; Pere Goriot by Honore' de Balzac; Tom Jones by Henry Fielding; Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad; The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper; The Red and the Black by Stendhal; Romantic Poets William Blake to Edgar Allan Poe; My Antonia by Willa Cather. Books do not appear to have seen usage. No marks or blemishes. Books will be shipped Media Mail.
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(10) VOLS., 19TH C. LIT., FINE
(10) VOLS., 19TH C. LIT., FINE LEATHER BINDINGS Includes: Cervantes. Don Quixote. Gibbings./Lippincott, 1895, illus. by Frank Brangwyn, in 4 vols., 7"h x 4.5"w; William Cullen Bryant. The Odyssey of Homer. Houghton Mifflin, 1899, 2 vols., 8"h x 5"w; Fielding. The History of Tom Jones. James Cochrane, 1831, illus. by George Cruikshank, 2 vols., binding stamped "TOUT BINDER", 7"h x 4.5"w; and, Dickens. Dombey and Son. Chapman & Hall, 1899, illus. by H. K. Browne, 2 vols., 9"h x 6"w