Franklin Library and Other Limited Edition Leather-bound Books, Including Signed Copies, Eleven Volumes

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Franklin Library and Other Limited Edition Leather-bound Books, Including Signed Copies, Eleven Volumes
Including signed copies of the following titles published by the Franklin Library between 1977 and 1979: Gerald Green's The Last Angry Man; Louis Auchincloss's The Rector of Justin; Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon; John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman; John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society; Jean-Paul Sartre's Five Plays; Mary McCarthy's The Group; and Allen Drury's Advise and Consent; Peter Straub's The General's Wife, West Kingston, RI: Donald Grant, 1982, signed first edition; Richard Nixon's The Real War, New York: Warner Books, 1980, stated first edition, signed, in full leather; and a signed limited first edition of Henry Kissinger's Years of Upheaval, Boston: Little Brown, 1982, in the slipcase. (11)

Provenance: from the Estate of Stratford W. Carter, Boston, Massachusetts.
Estimate $200-300


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