Easton Press Masterpieces of American Literature (complete set in 53 volumes)
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Title: Easton Press Masterpieces of American Literature (complete set in 53 volumes)
Publication: Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1970s-1980s
Description: Hardcover. 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. Very good.
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.
This set, even with noted flaws, is still gift-quality, and can be proudly displayed, read, and enjoyed by its next owner.
A full list of titles follows:
1. American Indian Legends
2. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
3. Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe
4. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes
5. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
6. Billy Budd and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
7. Call of the Wild by Jack London
8. Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau
9. Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
10. Daisy Miller by Henry James
11. Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
12. Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New York by Washington Irving
13. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
14. House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
16. Jungle by Upton Sinclair
17. Lewis and Clark: Journals of the Expedition – 2 Vol Set
18. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
19. Literary Writings of Abraham Lincoln
20. Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
21. Maggie by Stephan Crane
22. Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
23. Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington
24. Notorious Jumping Frog & Other Stories - Mark Twain
25. Old Creole Days by George Washington Cable
26. Omoo by Herman Melville
27. Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
28. Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
29. Poems of Emily Dickinson
30. Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
31. Poems of Longfellow
32. Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. Poems of William Cullen Bryant
34. Poor Richard’s Almanacks by Benjamin Franklin
35. Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
36. Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
37. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
38. Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (Rip Van Winkle and other stories) by Washington Irving
39. Stories of O. Henry
40. Tales of Soldiers & Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
41. Tales of the Gold Rush by Bret Harte
42. Turn of the Screw by Henry James
43. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
44. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
45. Typee by Herman Melville
46. Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
47. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
48. The Virginian by Owen Wister
49. Washington Square by Henry James
50. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
51. White Fang by Jack London
52. Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan by Louis Untermeyer
53. Writings of Thomas Jefferson.
Seller ID: 13734
Subject: American literature
