Classic Book Cards Series 2
First edition. Fine. The thrilling sequel to 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:
Abbey's The Brave Cowboy (# 124)
Anderson's Winesburg Ohio (# 83) and Death in the Woods (# 149)
Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (# 152), The Daring Twins (# 130) and The Tin Woodman of Oz (# 106)
Bellow's The Dangling Man (# 140)
Bloch's Psycho (# 147)
Bowles' Two Serious Ladies (# 103)
Bowles' The Sheltering Sky (# 111)
Burroughs' The Mucker (# 142)
Burroughs' Junkie (# 91)
Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice (# 88)
Camus' The Plague (# 136)
Chadwick's The Ball Player's Chronicle (# 97)
Chandler's The High Window (# 85) and The Little Sister (# 144)
Cooper's The Pathfinder (# 78)
Dickens' A Christmas Carol (# 84) and American Notes (# 146)
Du Bois' The Quest of the Silver Fleece (# 116)
Eliot's The Waste Land (# 87) and Poems 1909-1925 (# 145)
Faulkner's Mosquitoes (# 96), The Hamlet (# 120) and Go Down Moses (# 138)
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (# 79)
Flaubert's Madame Bovary (# 104)
Fleming's Casino Royale (# 77), Dr. No (# 151) and Goldfinger (# 112)
Forster's A Passage to India (# 107)
Gray's Lanark (# 150)
Greene's The Man Within (# 90)
Groom's Forrest Gump (# 123)
Haggard's Cleopatra (# 141)
Hammett's Red Harvest (# 82)
Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo (# 132)
Hemingway's In Our Time (# 94), A Farewell to Arms (# 115) and Across the River and Into the Trees (# 137)
O. Henry's Strictly Business (# 122)
Hesse's Demian (# 129)
Highsmith's Strangers on a Train (# 95)
Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine (# 125)
James' The Ambassadors (# 135)
Kafka's The Metamorphosis (# 101)
Kinsella's Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa (# 119)
Lewis' The Innocents (# 105) and Babbitt (# 133)
Lowry's Under the Volcano (# 121)
Maugham's The Making of a Saint (# 148)
Miller's Death of a Salesman (# 92)
Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn (# 114)
Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (# 108)
Morrison's The Bluest Eye (# 143)
O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find (# 134)
O'Flaherty's The Informer (# 117)
O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra (# 81) and Butterfield 8 (# 128)
Pynchon's V (# 93)
Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run? (# 98)
Shelley's Frankentstein (# 126)
Sinclair's The Jungle (# 139)
Steinbeck's Cup of Gold (# 89) and Of Mice and Men (# 127)
Thompson's Heed the Thunder (# 113)
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (# 100)
Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (# 109)
Walker's The Color Purple (# 80)
Welsh's Trainspotting (# 110)
Welty's The Robber Bridegroom (# 102)
West's A Cool Million (# 86)
White's Charlotte's Web (# 118)
White's Happy Valley (# 99)
Whitman's As a Strong Bird on Pinion's Free (# 131)
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