Description:

1980s. Philadelphia. All books in Fine, unread condition and are rare and limited special luxury edition volumes of the Collected Stories of the World’s Greatest Writers. All volumes bound in full leather, gold/silver embossed title on the spine and design on the cover. The papers have gilt edges. Satin Moire end papers with hubbed spines. Satin book marker is sewn in. All volumes have long-lasting, high-quality acid-neutral paper, smyth-sewn pages for strength and durability with beautiful illustrations.

    Provenance:
  • Acquired from a Virginia estate
  • Artist Name:
  • Various
  • Medium:
  • Leather Bound Book Set
  • Circa:
  • 1980s
  • Notes:
  • The following volumes are in this set; 1. Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories by John Updike. 2. Seven Tales by Henry James. 3. Three Stories by Thorton Wilder. 4. Guys and Dolls by Damon Runyan. 5. California Stories by Bret Harte. 6. Collected Short Stories by Carson McCullers. 7. Stories by Booth Tarkington. 8. The Best Short Stories by Theodore Dreiser. 9. The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 10. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Four Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett. 11. Selected Stories by O’Henry. 12. Girl of the Streets Stories by Stephen Crane. 13. Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris. 14. Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote. 15. Laughing to Keep from Crying and 25 Jesse Semple Stories by Langston Hughes. 16. Thirteen O’clock, Stories of Several Worlds by Stephen Vincent Benet. 17. One Basket by Edna Ferber.
  • Condition:
  • Fine, Unread

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