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Franklin Library Books
The Franklin Library was the publishing division of The Franklin Mint. The Franklin Library published its first book in 1973, and closed its doors for good in 2000, after losing the competitive battle with The Easton Press for the popular market for finely-bound leather books. Today, the lavishly- produced leather books issued by the Franklin Library are highly sought after in the collectibles market. Please peruse the available titles below. All titles are decorated Buckram with ribbed leather spines; all edges gilt; satin ribbon markers; marbled endpapers. Unless otherwise described, all titles are in VG+ condition or better. All except two volumes have "The Heirloom Library" bookplate with subscriber's name.Titles offered for $10.00 each:
1) Chekhov, Anton. Greatest Plays. Trans. by Elisaveta Fen. Illus. by Stan Hunter. (1974) 8 vo., 274 pp. Grey/Black. SOLD 2) De Balzac, Honore. Pere Goriot. Illus. by Albert Lynch. (1980) 12 mo., 376 pp. Blue/Blue. 3) De Montaigne, Michel. Twenty-Nine Essays. Trans. by Donald Frame. Illus. by Carol Wald. (1982) 8 vo., 482 pp. Brown/Brown. SOLD 4) Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. Illus. by Herbert Tauss. (1981) 8 vo., 536 pp. Green/Green. 5) Ibsen, Henrik. Four Plays. Trans. by Eva Le Gallienne. Illus. by Tony Eubanks. Includes: A Doll's House; Ghosts; The Wild Duck; and, Hedda Gabler. (1979) 8 vo. 403 pp. Green/Green. SOLD 6) Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Trans. by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Illus. by Gonzalo Fonseca. (1981) 8 vo., 724 pp. Brown/Brown. 7) Stendhal. The Red and the Black. Trans. by Charles Tergie. Illus. by Jean Paul Quint. (1981) 8 vo., 496 pp. Grey/Grey. 8) Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. Illus. by the author. (1981) 8 vo., 679 pp. Blue/Blue. 9) Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Illus. from the 1885 First Edition by Edward Windsor Kemble. (1979) Sm. 8 vo., 410 pp. Green/Green. SOLD 10) Voltaire. Candide. Trans. by Tobias Smollet. Illus. by Antoni Clave. (1979) 8 vo. 154 pp. Green/Black.Titles offered for $15.00 each:
11) Aristotle. Rhetoric and On Poetics. Trans. by W. Rhys Roberts and Ingram Bywater. 16 illus. from the 1759 edition of Cesare Ripa's works. (1981) Sm. 8 vo., 244 pp. Brown/Brown. 12) Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Trans. by G.H. McWilliam. Illus. with woodcuts by Jose Narro. (1981) 8 vo., 749 pp. Grey/Black. SOLD 13) Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Preface by Charlotte Bronte. Illus. by Alan Reingold. (1979) 8 vo., 401 pp. Blue/Blue. 14) Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Illus. by F.W. Pailthorpe. (1979) 8 vo., 526 pp. Red/Red. 15) Dostoevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. Trans. by Jessie Coulson. Illus. by Robert and Corrine Borja. (1982) 8 vo., 492 pp. Grey/Grey. 16) Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Illus. by Thomas Rowlandson. (1980) 8 vo., 738 pp. Rust/Rust. 17) Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Trans. by Francis Steegmuller. Illus. by Malcolm Liepke. Sm. 8 vo., 423 pp. Blue/Blue. 18) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust: Parts One and Two. Trans. by George Madison Priest. Illus. by Engelbert Siebertz. (1981) 8 vo., 415 pp. Wine/Wine. SOLD 19) Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. Illus. by Ben Wohlberg. (1980) 8 vo., 418 pp. Brown/Brown. 20) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Illus. by Chris Duke. (1979) 8 vo., 291 pp. Crimson/Burgundy. 21) James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Illus. by Mitchell Hooks. (1981) 8 vo., 418 pp. Blue/Blue. 22) Plato. Selected Dialogues. Trans. by Benjamin Jowett. Frontispiece "The Death of Socrates" by Jacques Louis David. (1983). 8 vo., 379 pp. Green/Green. 23) Plutarch. Selected Lives. The Dryden Translation with illus. specially prepared for an English edition in 1676. (1982) 8 vo., 462 pp. Rust/Rust. SOLD 24) Rabelais, Francois. The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Trans. by John M. Cohen. With illus. by Frank C. Pape. (1982) 8 vo., 715 pp. A minor ripple to first few pages; some wear to gilt on foredges; still VG to VG+. Red/Red. 25) Saint Augustine. Confessions. Trans. by Edward Bouverie Pusey. Illus. by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. (1982) 8 vo., 312 pp. SOLD 26) Shakespeare, William. Selected Plays. Illus. by Henry Fuseli. Plays included: Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; and The Tempest. (1981) 8 vo., 655 pp. Some fading of spine, still a handsome volume. Red/Red. SOLD 27) Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. Illus. by Thomas Morten. (1979) 8 vo., 337 pp. Rust/Brown. 28) Tacitus. The Annals. Trans. of Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. Illus. from etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. (1982) 8 vo., 375 pp. Blue/Blue. 29) Virgil. The Aeneid. The translation of John Dryden. Illus. by Johann Gruninger. (1982) Narrow 8 vo., 425 pp. Grey/Grey.A Few More Uncommon Titles:
30) Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. Trans. by John Ciardi. With illus. from the engravings of Gustave Dore. (1983) 8 vo., 689 pp. Green/Black. $40.00 31) Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. In contemporary verse by J.U. Nicolson. Illus. with the woodcuts of William Caxton. (1981) 8 vo., 618 pp. Green/Green. $20.00 32) De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Trans. by J. M. Cohen. Illus. by Jose and Luis Jiminez y Aranda. (1979) 8 vo.,625 pp. Scratch in gilt on foredges. Brown/Brown. SOLD 33) Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Illus. with the colour woodcuts of Pierre Falke. (1979) 8 vo., 355 pp. Brown/Brown. SOLD 34) Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Intro. by Robert Penn Warren. Illus. by Kenneth Francis Dewey. (1979) Sm. 8 vo., 362 pp. Blue/Blue. $20.00 35) Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Illus. by Bruce Dean. (1982) Narrow 8 vo., 195 pp. Red/Red. $30.00 36) Greek Tragedies. The Great Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Illus. by Quentin Fiore. (1982) 8 vo., 360 pp. Green/Green. $25.00 37) Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Illus. by Bernard Fuchs. (1979) 8 vo., 307 pp. Rust/Rust. $20.00 38) Homer. The Iliad. In Contemporary Verse by Robert Fitzgerald. Illus. by W.T. Mars. (1979) 8 vo., 665 pp. Brown/Brown. $30.00 39) Homer. The Odyssey. In Contemporary Verse by Robert Fitzgerald. Illus. by W.T. Mars. (1979) 8 vo., 503 pp. Brown/Brown. $20.00 40) Joyce, James. Ulysses. Illus. by Kenneth Francis Dewey. (1979) 8 vo., 750 pp. Rust/Rust. $25.00 41) Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. With a portfolio of 19th century whaling prints. (1979) 8 vo., 527 pp. Blue/Black. $20.00 42) Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Illus. from the engravings of Gustave Dore. (1979) 8 vo., 338 pp. Green/Green. SOLD 43) Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way. Trans. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Illus. by Malcolm Liepke. (1983) 8 vo., 486 pp. Red/Burgundy. $25.00 44) Romantic Poets: William Blake to Edgar Allan Poe. Edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson. Illus. by Eugene Karlin. (1982) 8 vo., 461 pp. Rust/Rust. SOLD 45) Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman. Illus. after Harry Furniss. (1981) Red/Red. $25.00 46) Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Trans. by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Illus. from paintings by James Tissot. (1980) 8 vo., 771 pp. Blue/Blue. $20.00 47) Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Illus. with photos of Whitman's America. (1979) 8 vo., 536 pp. Green/Green. SOLD 48) Yeats. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats. The Definitive Edition, with the author's final revisions. Colour woodcut illus. by Jack Yeats. (1979) 8 vo., 522 pp. Brown/Brown. $35.00