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Sale 118 Lot 627  

23 VOLS. FRANKLIN LIBRARY, VARIOUS TITLES, FOUR SIGNED BY AUTHORS. Leather-bound covers with gilt edges, sewn-in bookmarks, moire endpapers. Signed books include: "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike; "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk; "The Agony and The Ecstasy" by Irving Stone; "Advise and Consent" by Allen Drury. Three titles from "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" series including "The Poetry of Robert Frost"; "The Origin of the Species" by Charles Darwin; and "The Odyssey" by Homer. Three titles from "The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers" including "The Best of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; "The First Forty-Nine Stories" by Ernest Hemingway; and "Stories" by Guy de Maupassant; and others including first editions "Mary Me" by John Updike and "The Evidence of Love" by Shirley Ann Grau.
Most with bookplate
Estimate $200-300

Sold for $250


       
 

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