Comprises: 101 Franklin Library books bound in full gilt-decorated morocco; 13 International Collectors Library bound in leatherette; The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotated, published by Greenwich House in full padded leather, quarto size; and 3 miscellaneous cloth-bound volumes by various publishers. * Plus, 93 “Notes from the Editors” Franklin Library pamphlets (that accompanied the books in this series). Together, 118 hardcover volumes and 93 wrapper-bound volumes.
Classic authors by the Franklin Library include: Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Ambrose Bierce, Boccaccio, Camus, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Cervantes, Chaucer, Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dumas, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Zane Grey, The Brother Grimm, Dashiell Hammett, Hemingway, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Melville, Nabokov, Orwell, Poe, Damon Runyon, Steinbeck, Stevenson, Swift, Dylan Thomas, Thurber, Tolstoy, Twain, Jules Verne, Voltaire, Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Wolfe, etc.