A vintage 16-volume collection from The World's Greatest Literature series published by The Spencer Press of New York in the 1930s.

 The books are bound in brown cloth with gold and green embellishments on the spines. Each volume has a black-and-white etching frontispiece. 

 These are perfect for reading and for home decor staging of bookshelves!

Good condition with a bit of age-related wear to covers and spines. 

 The set measures 25.5" across, 8.25" tall, and 5.75" front to back.

Included are:

Volume 1   The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Volume 2   Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Volume 3   The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Volume 4   The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Volume 5   Best Loved Plays of William Shakespeare

Volume 6   The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Volume 9   The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

Volume 10  Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace

Volume 11 The Sketch Book by Washington Irving

Volume 13  Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Volume 14  Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley

Volume 16  The Last Days of Pompeii by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton

Volume 17  Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Volume 18  Best Loved Poems

Volume 19  The Adventures of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Volume 20  Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men

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