FRANKLIN LIBRARY 49 GREATEST LEATHER BOOK COLLECTION Start Price USD 1,650.00 Current Price USD 1,650.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 05, 2008 End Time Thursday, October 09, 2008 Location Fort Lauderdale, FL See more about ' FRANKLIN LIBRARY 49 GREATEST LEATHER BOOK COLLECTION' Description THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY   You are bidding on a set of Franklin Library Leather Bound Books. Many Pulitzer Prize winning books.  My late husband purchased  this collection from 1980 to 1984 directly from the Franklin Mint / Franklin Library.  These books were bound in genuine leather with 22k gold accents from 1980-1984.  It is rare to find a collection of these fine all leather bound books.  The books were originally written in the 1700's, 1800's to early 1900's.  Write me for any details about a specific book or dates. Most books are artist illustrated. All Books are in like new, fine mint condition never read except to look for names and dates for this listing. With the exception of the Shakespeare which has a minute amount of abrasion mark on the binder.   All have Moire endleaves; 22K gold gilt edges (all); and ribbon place-holders.  Permanent satin ribbon markers, and beautiful marbled endpapers. As of 2000, the Franklin Library is no longer. Books from this collection are now out of print and highly collectible. THERE ARE NO MARK INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF THE BOOKS, NO BOOKPLATES, NO WARPING, NO SPINE FADING, NO WATER DAMAGE, AND NO ISSUES AT ALL.   All books are tight clean unread copies of Franklin Library finest and rarest set of full leather bound books.  Most of these books sell for between $50 and $150 dollars each as their are some very rare books in this lot.  Each book will be bubble paper packed and the entire lot will be shipped in multiple boxes shipped via Priority Mail.  Let me know if you would like any specific photos and I will send them right off.  Shipping on this lot will be $100 shipped within the lower 48 states.  Bid with confidence from an ebayer with over 2,780  positive transaction.  This is truely a unique opportunity to own a very rare and out of print set of fine leather bound literary classics!!!!  Get these beautiful out of print leather collectables perfect for your library, that have been finely cared for over 27 years.  I CAN NOT SHIP THESE 49 BOOKS FOR $4, IF THE FLAT SHIPPING RATE OF $4 IS APPLIED, THE SALE WILL BE VOIDED.  THE COST FOR SHIPPING THIS LOT WILL BE $125 OR THE ACTUAL SHIPPING COST WHICHEVER IS LESS.Franklin Library Leather Bound Pulitzer Prize Book  Collection of 49 Novels     Moby Dick   - Herman Melville A Farewell to Arms  -  Ernest Hemingway William Shakespeare   -  Selected Plays The Three Musketeers  - Alexander Dumas The Red Badge of Courage  - Stephen Crane Crime and Punishment  -Fedor Dostoyevsky Stories - Rudyard Kipling The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenmore Cooper The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope Anna Karena - Leo Tolstoy Tess of D'Urberville - A Pure Woman - Thomas Hardey, Illustrations of Sir Hurbert von Herkomer, RA Fathers and Sons (Fathers & Children 1895) Ivan Turgeney Tom Jones (1972) Henry Fielding Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson My Antonia - Willa Cather Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brente 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Vernes Twenty Two intro: Kenneth McCormick Voltare - Candide Auto Biography of Benjamin Franklin Aesops Fables David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Tales of Edgar Allan Poe The Red Book of Animal Stories  - Andrew Lang Mutiny on the bounty - Mordoff and Hall 100 Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm Stories - Guy MDe Maupassant Pere Goriot - Honore De Balzac The Call of the Wild- Jack London Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift The Good Earth - Pear S. Buck Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery Tails from Arabian Nights - Burton Romantic Poet - From William Blake to Edgar A. Poe The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorn The Portrait of A Lady - Henry James Masterpieces of Drama (1928-1919) The Yearling - Marjorie Kunan Rawlings Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Two Years Before The Mast  - Richard Henry Dana The Red and The Black - Stendahl Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll Waverly or "Tis Sixty Years Since" - (1829) Sir Walter Scott   Place a Bid!