Easton Press:- Americana & American / British literature and modern novels. A collection of twelve leatherbound collector's books produced by the Easton Press for the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written editions. Comprising 1981 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain illustrated by Richard Sparks (spine discoloured & wear to gilt boards); 1981 Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau illus. Thomas W. Nason; 1980 The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler illus. Robert Ward Johnson; 1977 Moby Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville illus. Boardman Robinson; 1975 Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe; 1977 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck illus. Fletcher Martin; 1979 The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson; 1980 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad illus. Robert Shore; 1977 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman illus. Rockwell Kent; 1975 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne & 1979 The Sea Wolf by Jack London illus. Fletcher Martin; and 1977 Lord Jim, a Tale by Joseph Conrad illus. Lynd Ward. All bound in full decorative gilt leather, all edges gilded & with silk endpapers, some minor shelfwear, the occ. instance of light rubbing, odd spot internally, otherwise a smart & clean collection. Largest folio.
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