World Famous Classics 9 Vol : Sherlock Holmes, Tale Of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Edgar Allan Poe , Shakespeare

by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Shakespeare, Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne Publisher : World Publishing Year : 1946 Edition : First, Thus Pages : 3064 Condition : Very Good Binding : Hardcover Price : Not For Sale

Item Description :

World Publishing, 1946-1952. FIRST EDITION, thus. Nine matching volumes. Overall very good condition, interior appears to have been unread in all volumes, though consistent page aging, some spines have fading of gilt and slight spine chips, larger on “The Way of All Flesh.” Charlotte Ross and other illustrators. Tan cloth boards w/green faux leather spine & gold type & design. Very nice 9 volume set of all time classics. Best authors in the game. All books copyrighted from 1946-1952. Books appear to have never been read. Bindings have never been opened. Set includes: 1. The Book of Sherlock Holmes – Doyle (1950, 320 pages); 2. Nana – Zola (1946, 468 pages); 3. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens (1946, 349 pages); 4. Jane Eyre – Bronte (1946, 504 pages); 5. Two Years Before The Mast : a Personal Narrative of Life at Sea – Narrative of little more than two years spent as a common sailor, before the mast, in the American merchant service. It is such a vivid, unbiased, first hand report of life at sea in the 1830s that it instantly leaped into popularity as the best American sea story every written - and this popularity it has never lost. Dana Alexander, illustrator (1946, 415 pages).; 6. Selected Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1952, 257 pages); 7. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Verne, spine casing separated (1946, 375 pages); 8. Selected Plays of Shakespeare, small spine chip (1952, 473 pages); 9. The Way of All Flesh – Butler (1952, 371 pages.) 3064 pages total.



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