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Seller: Ardis Books, Fareham, United KingdomArdis Books
AbeBooks seller since August 1, 2002
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 3,886.50
Quantity: 1 available
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1982 Reprint. 100 Very Good+ Leather Hardbacks. Some spines slightly marked. Some ribbons slightly marked. Gilt page edges a little foxed, visible when you splay the page edges slightly. A complete set of the hundred greatest books of all time. Limited Edition. Elaborate gold embossed decorations, raised spine bands, silk moire endpapers, all page edges gilt, and permanently bound-in ribbon page marker. Many have original publisher's notes pamphlet. Full list of titles is Melville, Herman Moby-Dick ;Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock;Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury Tales ;Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Horror and Suspense ;Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby ;Plato The Republic ;Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island Illustrated by N C Wyeth;Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Illustrated by Allan Mardon;Virgil The Aeneid ;Twain, Mark Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ;Shakespeare, William Six Tragedies ;Dostoevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment Illustrated by Thomas Phero;Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by John Tenniel;Darwin, Charles The Origin of Species Illustrated by Juan Carlos Barberis;Homer The Iliad Illustrated by Quentin Fiore;Eliot, T.S. Poems: 1909-1962 ;Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms Illustrated by Herbert Tauss;Chekhov, Anton Eight Plays ;Thoreau, Henry D Walden Illustrated by Ronald Keller;Cervantes Don Quixote De La Mancha ;Saint Augustine The Confessions Of Saint Augustine ;Homer The Odyssey Illustrated by Quentin Fiore;Dickens, Charles David Copperfield Illustrated by Phiz;Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury Illustrated by Allan Mardon;Bunyan, John The Pilgrim’s Progress ;Mann, Thomas Five Stories including Death in Venice Illustrated by Robert Borja;Voltaire Candide & Zadig ;Joyce, James Ulysses Illustrated by Alan E Cober;Euripides Nine Plays Illustrated by Quentin Fiore;Baudelaire, Charles The Flowers of Evil Illustrated by Eugene Karlin;Burton, Sir Richard F Tales From The Arabian Nights Illustrated by Quentin Fiore;Thackeray, William Makepeace Vanity Fair Illustrated by Thackeray, William Makepeace;Kafka, Franz The Trial Illustrated by Phero Thomas;Hamilton, Alexander Jay, John Madison, James The Federalist Illustrated by Birney Lettick ;Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe Illustrated by Paget, Walter;Balzac, Honore de Le Père Goriot Illustrated by Eugene Abot;Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim: A Tale Illustrated by H. Tom Hall ;Ibsen, Henrik; Eva Le Gallienne (transl) Six Plays ;Aristotle Politics ;James, Henry Nine Tales of Henry James Illustrated by Ben F. Wohlberg;Alighieri, Dante Translated by John Ciardi The Divine Comedy Illustrated by Gustave Dore;Dickens, Charles Great Expectations Illustrated by David Frampton;Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary Illustrated by Bill Greer;Freud, Sigmund The Basic Works of Sigmund Freud ;Shakespeare, William Eight Comedies ;Rabelais, Francois Gargantua and Pantagruel ;Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders Illustrated by David Palladini ;Hardy, Thomas The Return of the Native Illustrated by Roy Andersen;Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese;O’Neill, Eugene Four Plays Illustrated by Jerry Cosgrove;Paine, Thomas Political Writings Illustrated by Borja, Robert;Machiavelli, Niccolò The Prince Illustrated by Quentin Fiore;Donne, John Poems ;Franklin, Benjamin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton ;Stendhal The Red and the Black Illustrated by Mette Ivers;Lawrence, D H Women in Love Illustrated by Dennis Luzak;Fielding, Henry Tom Jones Illustrated by William Small;Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Faust Illustrated by Harry Clark ;Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage ;Shaw, Bernard Three Plays Illustrated by Paul Hogarth;Pascal, Blaise Pensees ;Frost, Robert The Poetry of Robert Frost Illustrated by Herbert Tauss;Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans Illustrated by N C Wyeth;Boccaccio, Giovanni The Decameron Illust.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The 100 Greatest Books of all time
- Author
- Various
- Publisher
- Franklin Library, United Kingdom
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Binding
- Hardback
- Edition
- Reprint.
Ardis Books
Fareham, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since August 1, 2002
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 5 to 10 business days | 14 to 45 business days |
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| First item | US$ 40.58 | US$ 40.58 |
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Store description
Small business selling rare and collectable books and memorabilia.
Specialty
Fine Books, First Edition Fiction, Folio Society Books, Easton Press Books, Antiquarian Books, Specialist Non-Fiction, Giles Cartoons, Limited EditionsSeller's business information
Ardis Systems Limited
Ardis Books, 3 Mill Street
Fareham, United Kingdom PO14 4AB
Terms of sale
Books may be returned within seven days of receipt for a full refund.
Robert Newbury, Ardis Books, 3 Mill Street, Titchfield, Fareham PO14 4AB.
Email:rnewbury@ardis.co.uk. Vat Number: 522214396. Company Number: 2355428.
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