Author: HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
Title: The First Forty-Nine Stories (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Leather. A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library reprint edition of Ernest Hemingway's famous collection of his first 49 short stories. Includes his "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "Big Two-Hearted River" (both I & II), and many more. Includes a brief preface by the author and with illustrations by Alan Reingold. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full green bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Gold silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With shallow indentations to spine hubs and slight scratches to textblock edge gilding, otherwise an about-Fine copy, lacking additional damages: crisp, tightly-bound, bright and possibly unread.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (12), 476 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Title: The First Forty-Nine Stories (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Leather. A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library reprint edition of Ernest Hemingway's famous collection of his first 49 short stories. Includes his "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "Big Two-Hearted River" (both I & II), and many more. Includes a brief preface by the author and with illustrations by Alan Reingold. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full green bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Gold silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With shallow indentations to spine hubs and slight scratches to textblock edge gilding, otherwise an about-Fine copy, lacking additional damages: crisp, tightly-bound, bright and possibly unread.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (12), 476 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Price: US$ 52.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86935
- Book number: 86935