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Lot 261
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$2,210
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Lot Description
[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. A group of 70 titles, comprising:
Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness (1969); Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year... (1968); Prescott, William Hickling. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella (1967); Wilde, Oscar. The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde (1968); Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness (1969); Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery (1970); Verne, Jules. From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon (1970); Yeats W.B. The Poems of W.B. Yeats (1970). Russian Folk Tales (1970); Twain, Mark. The Notorious Jumping Frog & Other Stories (1970); Addison and Steele. The Spectator (1970); Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men (1970); Giles, Lionel. The Analects of Confucius (1970); Camus, Albert. The Stranger (1971); Pascal, Blaise. Les Pensees (1971); Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man (1971); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1971); Conrad, Joseph. Three Tales of the Sea (1972); Tolstoy, Leo. Childhood Boyhood Youth (1972); Cicero, Orations and Essays (1972); Casanova, Giacomo. The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova (1972); The Book of the Dead (1972); Twain, Mark. Roughing It (1972); White, Gilbert. The Natural History of Selborne (1972); The Panchalantra (1972); Kipling, Rudyard. Tales of East and West (1973); Wordsworth, William. The Poems of Wordsworth (1973); Blake, William. The Poems of William Blake (1973); Chekov, Anton. The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov (1973); Irish Folk Tales (1973); Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles (1974); Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World (1974); Gilgamesh (1974); Twain, Mark. Pudd'nhead Wilson (1974); Weems, Mason L. The Life of Washington (1974); Tennyson, Alfred Lord. The Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1974); Wilder, Thornton. Our Town (1974); Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth (1975); Kafka, Franz. The Trial (1975); Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1975); Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat (1975); Sophocles. Antigone (1975); Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto (1975). Bligh, William. A Voyage to the South Seas (1975); Valdes, Fernando Gonzales. The Conquest and Settlement of the Island of Boriquen or Puerto Rico (1975). Conrad, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands (1975); Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers (1975); Dickens, Charles. American Notes (1975); Arnold, Edwin. The Light of Asia (1976); Defoe, Daniel. Roxana the Fortunate Mistress (1976); Pater, Walter. The Renaissance (1976); Cabell, James B. Jurgen (1976); Gogol, Nikolai. The Overcoat and the Government Inspector (1976); Turgenev, Ivan. The Torrents of Spring (1976); The Sermon on the Mount (1977); Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf (1977); Hugo, Victor. The Battle of Waterloo (1977); The Book of the Prophet Isaiah (1979); Villon, Francois. The Lyrical Poems of Francois Villon (1979); Graves, Robert. Poems (1980); Carson, Rachel L. The Sea Around Us (1980); Cowley, Malcom. Exile's Return (1981); Grimmelshausen, Johann Jakob Christoffel von. The Adventures of Simplicissimus (1981); Homer. The Odyssey of Homer (1981).
Together, 70 volumes, all published in New York by The Limited Editions Club, all in original bindings, most in slip cases or boxes with original glassine, condition generally very good to near-fine.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.



