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Title of 8 Books Set: GROLIER CLASSICS - CLASSICS APPRECIATION SOCIETY CONDENSATIONS: ***Books? ?Contents? are itemized below ***Excerpt: ?Each Home Course Appreciation precedes its work AND the editor?s summaries of various omitted passages appear italicized and in brackets throughout the text.? Illustrated by: William Sharp - DELIGHTFULLY and LAVISHLY B&W Illustrated throughout all eight (8) volumes Publisher: Classics Appreciation Society - A Division of Grolier Incorporated Year of Publication: 1956 Size: 6 & 1/4" W & 9 & 1/4" H Quantity: Eight (8) Books Format: Hard Cover Dust Jacket: N/A Condition: OVERALL EXCELLENT+++ (***PLEASE NOTE that given the voluminous number of pages contained within all these books, we have not reviewed every single page individually, merely over-viewed the contents), with all volumes retaining bindings that are tightly intact and evincing no rubbing, lifting or tearing, and with covers evincing only the mildest of shelf/edge wear and surface handling. Noted condition factors specific to certain volumes are as follows: *Volume containing ?Moby Dick? et al - although there does not appear to be any writing or markings within any of the volumes, within this book there is a smattering of what seems to be ?from the publisher? and/or part of the ?Home Course Appreciation Notations? (as the underlining appears to be almost TOO NEAT and CLEAN to be ink applied post-publication), underlining to a handful of sentences and passages, but despite viewing through a magnifying glass we are unable to ascertain with 100% certainty if this is a ?from the publisher? condition or not (we are happy to furnish additional photos upon request to aid you in your bidding and purchasing decision). All pages are crisp, with a majority of same appearing to have never been handled and/or only very lovingly and gently so, however, being mentioned for purposes of accuracy (as the readability, collectibility and enjoyability of this set is in no way diminished by any of same) are the following condition factors unique to individual volumes and broken down as follows: *Volume containing ?Crime and Punishment? et al evinces a handful of teeny lower corner folds, ranging approximately from pages 400-442 *Volume containing ?Les Miserables? et al evinces slight spreading between the front Title Page and page opposite, as well as between the back ?Further Reading? page #571 and opposite page #570; also on upper outer edges, Title Page and page opposite along the lower margins are a couple of soil/foxing marks *Volume containing ?Moby Dick? et al evinces subtley nominal spreading between the front Title Page and page opposite, as well as between the back ?Further Reading? page #537 and opposite page #536; as well as a handful of teeny lower corner folds, ranging approximately from pages 524-536 *Volume containing ?History of Tom Jones? et al evinces a smidgen of teeny upper corner folds ranging approximately from pages 165-171, and some minor edge soiling/foxing ranging approximately from pages 312-359 *Volume containing ?Gulliver?s Travels? et al evinces a modest spreading between the back ?Further Reading? page #585 and opposite page #584, and one noted light edge crease on page 14 CONTENTS: *VOLUME ?Crime and Punishment? by Fyodor Dostoevski; ?The Diary of Samuel Pepys,? ?The Confessions of Saint Augustine,? and Paradise Lost? by John Milton; ?A Passion in the Desert? by Honore de Balzac; Aaron Burr?s ?Letter Challenging Alexander Hamilton to a Duel;? and ?Argues Against the Writs of Assistance? by James Otis - 470 Pages *VOLUME ?Les Miserables? by Victor Hugo; ?The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin? and ?The French Revolution? by Thomas Carlyle; ?The Divine Comedy? by Dante Alighieri; ?The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County? by Mark Twain; ?A Letter Describing the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius? by Pliny the Younger; and Andrew Hamilton?s ?Speech Defending Freedom of the Press? - 571 Pages *VOLUME ?Don Quixote? by Miguel de Cervantes; ?Plutarch?s Lives? and ?The Republic? by Plato; ?The Canterbury Tales? by Geoffrey Chaucer; ?The Cask of Amontillado? by Edgar Allan Poe; Leonardo Da Vinci?s ?Letter of Application to the Duke of Milan;? and Emile Zola?s ?Denunciation of the Conspiracy Against Dreyfus? - 468 Pages *VOLUME ?Jane Eyre? by Charlotte Bronte; ?Maxims and Reflections? by Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld; ?Essays of Elia? by Charles Lamb; ?The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam? and ?The Luck of Roaring Camp? by Bret Harte; Socrates ?Addresses the Judges Who Condemned Him;? and Pietro Aretino ?Tells Michelangelo His ?Last Judgment? Is Indecent? - 512 Pages *VOLUME ?Moby Dick? by Herman Melville; ?Life of Samuel Johnson? by James Boswell; ?The Social Contract? by Jean Jacques Rousseau; ?The Odyssey? and ?Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves? by Homer; ?Christopher Columbus? ?Letter Reporting His First Impressions of America;? and Lincoln?s ?Second Inaugural Address? *VOLUME ?The History of Tom Jones? by Henry Fielding; ?The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy? by Jacob Burckhardt; ?Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland? by Lewis Carroll; ?Leaves of Grass? by Walt Whitman; ?Young Goodman Brown? by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Elizabeth Cady Stanton ?Addresses the First Woman?s Rights Convention;? and Anne Boleyn?s ?Last Letter to Her Husband, Henry VIII? - 552 Pages *VOLUME ?Gulliver?s Travels? by Jonathan Swift; ?The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini? and ?The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? by Edward Gibbon; ?The Aenid? and ?The Book of Job? by Vergil; Napoleon Bonaparte ?A Love Letter to Josephine;? and William Pitt?s ?Speech Objecting to Taxation Without Representation? - 586 Pages *VOLUME ?The Three Musketeers? by Alexandre Dumas; ?Lives of the Poets? by Samuel Johnson; ?Ethics? by Baruch Spinoza; ?The Clouds? by Aristophanes; ?Wandering Willie?s Tale? by Sir Walter Scott; Harriet Beecher Stowe ?Tells What Sort of Woman She Is;? and Martin Luther ?Refuses to Recant Before the Diet of Worms? - 574 Pages *BRASS BOOK-STAND FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY - NOT INCLUDED WITH PURCHASE*
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: Grolier_Classics_Appreciation_Society_Books_Set |
| Condition:
Excellent - Refer to Condition Details within Listing |
Year:
1956
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