Post by Clipper on Feb 25, 2022 12:51:07 GMT -5
The entire set with the 5 foot bookshelf is for sale for $200. There are several titles there that I would be interested in reading, while some would probably sit unread on the shelf. I was thinking of offering $125 and see if they would accept that offer, however I have a sneaking suspicion that they would simply keep them if they can't get $200. The set is probably worth much more if they find the right buyer but I am hoping that they want to dispose of them. I saw a similar set at an estate sale that was not as complete and they were asking $150. There was only about 1/2 as many volumes and they would not budge on the price I am thinking that if I could buy them for my offered price I could read what I want to read and re-sell the set at a later date and probably recoup what I paid or more. Just debating whether I would read enough of the books to make it worth the price.
PF Collier publishing published the Collier's Encyclopedia as well as the Harvard Classics that are for sale. We had a set that my parents had purchased at some point when I was quite young. In later years they had become outdate so they bought a set of World Book encyclopedias and purchased the year book each year when us kids got old enough to take interest in expanding our knowledge and as a reference library to use for researching subjects for school work. When my mom died and we were holding an estate sale we found a series of Children's classics that supplemented the set. The encyclopedias were long gone. Does anyone remember the Funk and Wagnall's encyclopedia? I saw a partial set of them at a yard sale not too long ago. Wikipedia has made the printed encyclopedia obsolete. I sometimes hit wiki several times in a single day. We also found 3 different issues of the World Almanac with my name written in the inside of the cover. I used to get the latest issue every year for Christmas when I was in high school. While I was far from a scholar, and was a wild and rowdy teen, I was also always a "closet bookworm" who read every night before going to sleep, a habit that followed me all my life and I still read a lot.
I am going to head out in a little while to hit a couple of estate sales advertised in today's paper. One sale is advertising "books, books, and more books", and both sales are advertising tools. A person can NEVER have too many tools ( Kathy disagrees, haha.) I am also always looking for books to send to Kathy's 93 yr old aunt in Mohawk.
Condition
Used - Good
Book Genre
(Fiction) Classics
Harvard's Classics 5ft shelf of books. Complete set. Binding is tight, some appear to never have been open. Barn red color with gilt trim. Includes: Lectures, vol 1 Franklin, wollman and Penn. 2 Plato, Epictetus,Marcus,Aurelius 3 Bacon,Milton's Prose,Thos Browne 4 Complete Poems in English Milton 5 Essays and English Traits Emerson 6 Poems and Songs Burns 7 Confessions of St Augustine 8 Nine Greek Dramas 9 Letters and Tretises of Cicero and Pliny,10 Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 11 Origin of Species Darwin 12 Plutarchs Lives 13 Aeneid Virgil 14 Don Quixote Part One Cervantes 15 Pilgrims Progress Donne and Herbert Bunyan Walton 16 The Thousand and One Nights 17 Folklore and Fable Aesop Grimm Anderson 18 Modern English Drama 19 Faust Egmont etc Doctor Faustus Goethe Marlowe 20 The Divine Comedy Dante 21 Promessi Sposi Manzoni 22 The Odyssey and Homer 23 Two Years Before the Mast Dana 24 On the Sublime French Revolution etc Burke 25 Autobiography etc Essays and Address J.S.Mill T. Carlyle 26 ContinentalDrama 27 English Essays Sidney to Macaulay 28 Essays English and American 29 Voyage of the Beagle Darwin 30 Faraday Helmholtz Kelvin Newcomb etc 31 Autobiography Benvenuto Cellini 32 Literary and Philosophical Essays Montaigne Sainte Beuve Renan etc 33 Voyages and Travels 34 French and English Philosophers Descartes Voltaire Rousseau Hobbes 35 Chronicle and Romance Froissart Malory Holinshed 36 Machiavelli More Luther 37 Locke Berkeley Hume 38 Harvey Jenner Lister Pasteur 39 Famous Prefaces 40 English Poetry 1 Chaucer to Gray 41 English Poetry 2 Collins to Fitzgerald 42 English Poetry 3 Tennyson to Whitman 43 American Historical Documents 44 Sacred Writings 1 45 Sacred Writings 2 46 Elizabethan Drama 1 47 Elizabethan Drama 2 48 Thoughts and Minor Works Pascal 49 Epic and Saga 50 Introduction Readers Guide Indexes. Almost a college education in itself. These will be taken off at months end. If interested, please reach out.
I actually only see about 1/2 of those books that I would actually take an interest in reading.
PF Collier publishing published the Collier's Encyclopedia as well as the Harvard Classics that are for sale. We had a set that my parents had purchased at some point when I was quite young. In later years they had become outdate so they bought a set of World Book encyclopedias and purchased the year book each year when us kids got old enough to take interest in expanding our knowledge and as a reference library to use for researching subjects for school work. When my mom died and we were holding an estate sale we found a series of Children's classics that supplemented the set. The encyclopedias were long gone. Does anyone remember the Funk and Wagnall's encyclopedia? I saw a partial set of them at a yard sale not too long ago. Wikipedia has made the printed encyclopedia obsolete. I sometimes hit wiki several times in a single day. We also found 3 different issues of the World Almanac with my name written in the inside of the cover. I used to get the latest issue every year for Christmas when I was in high school. While I was far from a scholar, and was a wild and rowdy teen, I was also always a "closet bookworm" who read every night before going to sleep, a habit that followed me all my life and I still read a lot.
I am going to head out in a little while to hit a couple of estate sales advertised in today's paper. One sale is advertising "books, books, and more books", and both sales are advertising tools. A person can NEVER have too many tools ( Kathy disagrees, haha.) I am also always looking for books to send to Kathy's 93 yr old aunt in Mohawk.
Condition
Used - Good
Book Genre
(Fiction) Classics
Harvard's Classics 5ft shelf of books. Complete set. Binding is tight, some appear to never have been open. Barn red color with gilt trim. Includes: Lectures, vol 1 Franklin, wollman and Penn. 2 Plato, Epictetus,Marcus,Aurelius 3 Bacon,Milton's Prose,Thos Browne 4 Complete Poems in English Milton 5 Essays and English Traits Emerson 6 Poems and Songs Burns 7 Confessions of St Augustine 8 Nine Greek Dramas 9 Letters and Tretises of Cicero and Pliny,10 Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 11 Origin of Species Darwin 12 Plutarchs Lives 13 Aeneid Virgil 14 Don Quixote Part One Cervantes 15 Pilgrims Progress Donne and Herbert Bunyan Walton 16 The Thousand and One Nights 17 Folklore and Fable Aesop Grimm Anderson 18 Modern English Drama 19 Faust Egmont etc Doctor Faustus Goethe Marlowe 20 The Divine Comedy Dante 21 Promessi Sposi Manzoni 22 The Odyssey and Homer 23 Two Years Before the Mast Dana 24 On the Sublime French Revolution etc Burke 25 Autobiography etc Essays and Address J.S.Mill T. Carlyle 26 ContinentalDrama 27 English Essays Sidney to Macaulay 28 Essays English and American 29 Voyage of the Beagle Darwin 30 Faraday Helmholtz Kelvin Newcomb etc 31 Autobiography Benvenuto Cellini 32 Literary and Philosophical Essays Montaigne Sainte Beuve Renan etc 33 Voyages and Travels 34 French and English Philosophers Descartes Voltaire Rousseau Hobbes 35 Chronicle and Romance Froissart Malory Holinshed 36 Machiavelli More Luther 37 Locke Berkeley Hume 38 Harvey Jenner Lister Pasteur 39 Famous Prefaces 40 English Poetry 1 Chaucer to Gray 41 English Poetry 2 Collins to Fitzgerald 42 English Poetry 3 Tennyson to Whitman 43 American Historical Documents 44 Sacred Writings 1 45 Sacred Writings 2 46 Elizabethan Drama 1 47 Elizabethan Drama 2 48 Thoughts and Minor Works Pascal 49 Epic and Saga 50 Introduction Readers Guide Indexes. Almost a college education in itself. These will be taken off at months end. If interested, please reach out.
I actually only see about 1/2 of those books that I would actually take an interest in reading.
