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Lot 3091

A Large Group of Illustrated Classics from The Franklin Library

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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, [1979-1984]; (50) volumes; all 8vo; quarter leather over gilt-decorated cloth-covered boards, spines gilt-lettered and decorated, with marbled endpapers, ribbon bookmark, and all edges gilt. Includes titles such as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; Louisa May Alcott's Little Women; Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities; Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; and Jack London's The Call of the Wild, among many others; all illustrated; no duplicates.

Largest 9 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.; Smallest 8 x 6 in.

Private Collection, High Point, North Carolina

Most with only light wear; one with some leaves creased, one with corners bumped, and one with marks to lower board; rare foxing to page edges; all very good or better.