The Franklin Library The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Start Price USD 2,800.00 Current Price USD 2,800.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 08, 2008 End Time Monday, December 08, 2008 Location Crest Hill, Illinois See more about 'The Franklin Library' Description These beautiful Limited Edition books feature premium hand-cut leather boards with a distinct cover design in ornate 22-karat gold gild.  The spine is hubbed with raised horizontal ridges formed in the leather.  There are silk moire endpapers with a sewn in matching bookmark. The pages are gold gilded to protect against dust and moisture and the paper used is acid neutral to last generations without discoloring.  These beautiful books would make a fine addition to any collectors bookshelf.  There are 49 out of 100, none have been read they are bookshelf held only.  Most have little booklets inside them from the writters themselves.  Thank you for looking. BaldDawn  Titles are as follows: Abraham Lincoln- His Speeches and Writings- 1979 An American Tragedy- Theodore Dreiser-1981 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain-1983 Dusk of Dawn-W.E.B. DuBuois-1980 Collected Poems of Marianne Moore-1981 Poems-Edwin Arlington Robinson-1979 1919-John Dos Passos-1978 Billy Budd Sailor the Piazza Tales-Herman Melville-1982 The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens-1982 Typee-1979 William James-Psychology-1983 The Deerslayer-James Feinmore Cooper-1983 The Frontier in American History-Fredrick Jackson Turner-1977 The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald-1980 Letters From an American Farmer-H. Hector St. John DeCrevrecoeur-1982 Stories-Stephen Crane-1982 Selected Tales-Nathaniel Hawthorne-1982 The Collected Stories of Kathrine Anne Porter-1981 The Flowering of New England-Van Wyck Brooks-1979 Eugene O'Neill-Plays-1979 Mont Saint Michel and Charters-Henry Adams-1978 John Brown's Body-Stephen Vincent Benet-1976 The First Fourty-Nine Stories-Earnest Hemingway-1978 Poems and Essays- Edgar Allan Poe-1980 The Education of Henry Adams-Henry Adams-1980 Plays-Lillian Hellman-1978 The Complete Stories-Flannery O'Connor-1983 Admiral of the Ocean-Samuel Eliot Morison-1978 Interpretations and Forecasts-Lewis Mumford-1981 Two Years Before the Mast-Richard Henry Dana-1977 The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon Gent-Washington Irving-1983 Collected Poems-E.E. Cummings-1977 Selected Writings-Thomas Paine-1979 The Journals of Lewis and Clark-1982 The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck-1980 The Oregon Trail-Francis Parkman-1983 The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton-1977 The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson-1982 Pragmatism-William James-1982 Poems-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-1984 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers-Henry David Thoreau-1983 Walden-Henry David Thoreau-1981 Poems-Hart Crane- The Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane-1976 Up From Slavery-Booker T. Washington-1977 Winesburg Ohio-Sherwood Anderson-1976 Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov-1981 Collected Plays- Arthur Miller-1981 Look Homeward Angel-Thomas Wolfe-1977 Place a Bid!