Description:

1980s. Philadelphia. All books are in Fine, Unread condition. All are special luxury edition volumes of the Franklin Libraries Pulitzer Prize Classics. 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 Authors
  • Medium:
  • Leather Bound Book Set
  • Circa:
  • 1980s
  • Notes:
  • The following volumes are in this set, with the year that it won the Puliutzer beside it; 1. PAUL REVERE AND THE WORLD HE LIVED IN – Esther Forbes – 1942. 2. HUMBOLDT'S GIFT – Saul Bellow – 1975. 3. THE GUNS OF AUGUST – Barbara Tuchman – 1962. 4. OUR TOWN/THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH – Thornton Wilder – 1942. 5. A STILLNESS AT APPOMATTOX – Bruce Caton – 1953. 6. THE GOOD EARTH – Pearl S. Buck – 1947. 7. COLLECTED POEMS – Marianne Moore – 1952. 8. THE REIVERS – William Faulkner – 1963. 9. PROFILES IN COURAGE – John F. Kennedy – 1957. 10. THREE PLAYS – Robert Sherwood – 1936, 1939 and 1941. 11. THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS – Henry Adams – 1919. 12. THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS – Charles Lindbergh – 1954. 13. THE GRAPES OF WRATH – John Steinbeck – 1940.
  • Condition:
  • Fine, Unread

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