131 Best Stories

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1929. This wonderful story collection is in Very Good condition, with green woven cloth covers and gilt spine lettering. It is presumably a First Edition, with no other printing history. It features 131 stories from France, Germany, Great Britain, ancient Greece, Italy, Rome, Russia, the United States, Japan, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Spain, and ancient Egypt. Selections are arranged according to authors' nativity and include Gautier, Balzac, Daudet, de Maupassant, Voltaire, Goethe, Heine, Hoffman, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Arnold, Bacon, Lord Byron, Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, Defoe, De Quincey, Dickens, Disraeli, Fielding, Gaskell, Eliot, Goldsmith, Hohnson, Johnson, Jonson, Keats, Lamb, Kingsley, Macaulay, Milton, Morris, Pope, Rossetti, Ruskin, Scott, Shelley, Sevenson, Swift, Thackeray, Wordsworth, Aesop, Plato, Plutarch, Boccacio, Machiavelli, Cicero, Seneca, Chekhov, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorky, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Emerson, Franklin, Burroughs, Hawthorne, Holmes, Irving, Jefferson, Lincoln, Longfellow, Lowell, Poe, Thoreau, Washington, Whitman, Henry Jame, Hartes, Anderson, Erasmus, and Cervantes, to name a few. The book includes decorative green endpapers, with the original owner's bookplate and the owner's inscription on the half-title page. The book is tightly bound. The pages are clean and bright. It measures 5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches and includes 1278 pages. See photo.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.