The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1915. First edition thus, Privately Printed. With a portrait frontispiece of Franklin. Small 8vo, publisher's original dark-green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover with gilt pictorial device framed in gilt, top edge gilt. vii, 264 pp. A very good copy, very well preserved with only light evidence… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover, green cloth. Good/Dust Jacket condition fair. Scarce true Modern Library first, #39, although rather worse for wear. Edited with an Introduction by Nathan G. Goodman. 260 pages, also includes essays and other writings, excerpts from Poor Richard's Almanack. Green balloon cloth, front hinge cracked, binding #7. Blue typograhical dust… Read more about this item

New York, Putman Sons, no date but [no later than 1911]. Smalll 8vo. 319 pp. Original binding, soft red leather. Portrait of Franklin in frontispiece. Notes by John Bigelow. The Ariel Books no. 41.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Corners a bit rubbed, boards faintly soiled, ink date and owner bookplate of Robert N. Cherry on front flyleaf. 1927 Half-Leather. iv, 325 pp. 8vo. No binder's ticket, but appears to be a contemporary custom rebinding: blue leather spine and corners over blue cloth,… Read more about this item

Beautiful small volume of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography published in Philadelphia in 1895 (not on title page or verso). Green cloth cover boards with large Art Nouveau lily design; spine bumped and faded, lower corners bumped and worn, pages tight. Worst defect is that the frontispiece is detached but present, as shown; it has large black and white etching of Franklin… Read more about this item

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1903. First thus. Very good+ in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt borders on the front board and gilt text on the spine. Much of the gilt on the top edge of the text block has been destroyed by silverfish and there are two tiny chips to the cloth at the head… Read more about this item

1896 hardcover as pictured. Binding firm. Quarter bound in blue paper and cloth. Boards rubbed and worn at edges and corners. Interesting bookplate design on front half title page. Notations on a few pages. Text otherwise clean. No DJ. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

New York, NY: Books, Inc, ND. Art Type Edition; The World's Popular Classics. Hardcover. Good. Brown and white decorative cloth. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY KNICKERBOCKER PRESS IN 3/4 LEATHER WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN,… Read more about this item

Beautiful navy-blue boards with gold gilt text on the cover and spine. The spine has a slight slant and slight wear at the top and bottom of the back strip, but title is bright and readable. There is little edge wear to the front or rear boards, but the corners are all bumped with a tiny bit of wear at… Read more about this item

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1903. First thus. Near fine in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt borders on the front board, gilt text on the spine with only hints of rubbing at the lower corners of the heel of the spine and with the top edge of the text block gilt. The contents are clean, tight… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Some mottling and chipping of the vellum on the spine with a brief tear at the head. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Folio (9" x 13-1/4") bound in medieval half vellum with French marbled paper sides. Introduction and marginal glosses by Edward O'Day. Illustrated with an etched portrait of Franklin and… Read more about this item

Exterior of the book shows some wear at the corners and the head and tail of the spine. One 8 mm tear to the fabric along the lower rear edge. The pages are, for the most part, clean, tight and unmarked. Minimal tanning. One plate near the middle has come loose, and a small group of pages (5) were torn… Read more about this item

The Spencer Press, 1936. Volume 3 in The World's Greatest Literature collection. 311 toned pages. Decorative spine with gilt and green decorations and titles. Bumped head and heel of spine. Fray to top of spine and bumped and worn tips. Black and white frontispiece is a woodcut of Benjamin Franklin. This volume also contains… Read more about this item

Chicago: Lakeside Press/R. R. Donnelley. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1903. Hardcover. Deep green cloth binding rubbed at extremities; boards lightly scuffed/smudged; faint sticker residue on front board; small ding to top edge of front board; front hinge starting; owner's stamp on front free endpaper; leaf edges lightly foxed, else a nice, clean book. No dj. ;… Read more about this item

Limited Editions Club, 1931 Bound in quarter vellum over marbelled boards in slipcase. This copy #1233 signed by John Henry Nash on colophon. Book is free of writing, bookplates etc. Slipcase, while complete, is heavily taped.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. His autobiography is considered a masterpiece, and a key element in the understanding of American history. This copy was first published in 1941 by Walter J… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. ; First Easton Press Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Collector's Edition. One of the hundred greatest books ever written. EASTON PRESS books are among the highest quality leather bound books ever produced. Bound in full genuine leather with hubbed spine, accented with 22kt gold lettering and designs, printed on archival paper (acid neutral) with gilded edges, smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. Lustrous silk moire endpapers. A silk page… Read more about this item

Philadelphia PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Book. Illus. by J. G. Chapman. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1/4 Leather hardcover with sewn-in bookmark ribbon and gilt text block. 246 pp. w/ illustrations by J.G. Chapman. Edited by John Bigelow. Book Condition : Fine; unmarked. No Dust Jacket as issued..