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 (# 58)
Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain (# 57)
Beckett's Waiting for Godot (# 46)
Benchley's Jaws (# 30)
Burroughs's The Naked Lunch (# 8)
Burroughs's The War Chief (# 60)
Butler's Pigs is Pigs (# 34)
Camus' The Fall (# 48)
Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet Please? (# 72)
Chandler's The Long Goodbye (# 35)
Christie's Towards Zero (# 40)
Connell's Mrs. Bridge (# 45)
Conrad's Lord Jim (# 20)
Conroy's The Boo (# 24)
Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (# 7)
Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby (# 36) and A Tale of Two Cities (# 15)
Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (# 22)
Du Bois's Black Reconstruction (# 27)
Dunbar's Oak & Ivy (# 74)
Eliot's Prufrock (# 3) and Four Quartets (# 64)
Faulkner's The Sound & the Fury (# 16), As I Lay Dying (# 42) and These 13 (# 26)
Fleming's Moonraker (# 73)
Frazier's Cold Mountain (# 31)
Garcia Marquez's No One Writes to the Colonel (# 10)
Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (# 53) and She (# 32)
Hale's The Man Without a Country (# 11)
Hammett's The Maltese Falcon (# 76)
Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (# 2)
Heinlein's Starship Troopers (# 52)
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (# 1)
Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (# 43)
Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (# 41)
James' The Portrait of a Lady (# 25)
Joyce's Finnegans Wake (# 44)
Kafka's Amerika (# 29)
Kennedy's Profiles in Courage (# 55)
Kerouac's The Town and the City (# 54) and On the Road (#17 )
Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death (# 59)
Lawrence's The Trespasser (# 9)
London's The Call of the Wild (# 5)
Malamud's The Natural (# 23)
Melville's The Whale (# 38), Moby-Dick (# 39) and The Confidence Man (# 61)
O'Neill's Thirst (# 71)
Plath's The Bell Jar (# 18)
Poe's The Raven (# 56)
Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (# 4)
Rohmer's The Day the World Ended (# 33)
Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (# 47)
Shakespeare's The Tragedie of Julius Caesar (# 69)
Sharp's The Rescuers (# 14)
Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat (# 66) and The Grapes of Wrath (# 13)
Tarkington's Penrod (# 12)
Thackeray's The History of Pendennis (# 49)
Thomas' Quite Early One Morning (# 65)
Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (# 50)
Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (# 37)
Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (# 21) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (# 67)
Updike's Rabbit Run (# 68)
Van Gulik's Dee Goong An (# 62)
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (# 70)
Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau (# 75) and The War of the Worlds (# 28)
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (# 63)
Woolf's The Voyage Out (# 51) and To the Lighthouse (# 6)
Wouk's The Caine Mutiny (# 19)

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