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Lot 3044

A Large Group of Easton Press's The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

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Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1975-1981]. Collector's Edition; (99) titles, all from "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" series; all 8vo or 4to, finely bound in gilt-decorated full genuine leather with moire endpapers, satin ribbon bookmark, and all edges gilt. Includes classics such as Louisa May Alcott's Little Women; Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities; Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; Herman Melville's Moby Dick; John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, among many others. Most illustrated; no duplicates.

Largest 12 x 8 5/8 in.

Private Collection, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

"The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" Series was added to after the original one hundred, making a total of (125) books in the series.

Frequent light wear to board or gilt page edges, occasional slight separation from text block, infrequent scuffing/marks, and several with slight bowing to boards or spine mildly cocked; rare wear to interiors with pages generally pristine; all volumes very good or better.