Classic Book Cards Series 1

First edition. Fine. The original collectible book catalog. Mint copies, author's copies, dedication copies, a fabulous selection of the best first editions in the world, each book presented on a collectible non-sport trading card with a picture on the front and "stats" on the back. The set contains 76 unique book cards, a checklist card, a wraparound cover and a clear plastic case. Includes illustrations and descriptions of splendid copies of the following first editions (many signed, inscribed, or in never-seen condition; in several cases literally the best copies in the world). Illustration shows the cover and a sample card from this set, and a photograph of all three sets. $20 postpaid within the US. This set includes:
Auster's City of Glass
Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Benchley's Jaws
Burroughs's The Naked Lunch
Burroughs's The War Chief
Butler's Pigs is Pigs
Camus's The Fall
Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet Please?
Chandler's The Long Goodbye
Christie's Towards Zero
Connell's Mrs. Bridge
Conrad's Lord Jim
Conroy's The Boo
Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby and A Tale of Two Cities
Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
Dunbar's Oak & Ivy
Eliot's Prufrock and Four Quartets
Faulkner's The Sound & the Fury
As I Lay Dying and These 13
Fleming's Moonraker
Frazier's Cold Mountain
Garcia Marquez's No One Writes to the Colonel
Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and She
Hale's The Man Without a Country
Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman
James's The Portrait of a Lady
Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Kafka's Amerika
Kennedy's Profiles in Courage
Kerouac's The Town and the City and On the Road
Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death
Lawrence's The Trespasser
London's The Call of the Wild
Malamud's The Natural
Melville's The Whale
Moby-Dick and The Confidence Man
O'Neill's Thirst
Plath's The Bell Jar
Poe's The Raven
Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
Rohmer's The Day the World Ended
Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare's The Tragedie of Julius Caesar
Sharp's The Rescuers
Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat and The Grapes of Wrath
Tarkington's Penrod
Thackeray's The History of Pendennis
Thomas's Quite Early One Morning
Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Updike's Rabbit Run
Van Gulik's Dee Goong An
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and The War of the Worlds
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Woolf's The Voyage Out and To the Lighthouse
Wouk's The Caine Mutiny

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