Franklin Library Franklin Library Imitation Leather Books
Franklin published a number of books in faux leather, as evidenced by the lack of silk bookmarks and silk moire endpapers. They fell into two main series: The World’s Greatest Writers, and the Mystery series.
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World’s Greatest Writers
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott - 1978
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - 1979
Don Quixote De La Mancha by Meguel De Cervantes - 1979
Plays by Anton Chekhov - 1979
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - 1979
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - 1979
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - 1979
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1979
The Odyssey by Homer - 1979
Plays by Henrik Ibsen - 1979
Ulysses by James Joyce - 1979
Moby Dick by Herman Melville - 1979
Paradise Lost by John Milton - 1979
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - 1979
Gullivers Travels by Jonathon Swift 1979
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 1979
Candide by Voltare - 1979
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - 1979
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 1980
Pere Goriot by Honore De Balzac - 1980
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - 1980
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad - 1980
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - 1980
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - 1980
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - 1980
One Hundred Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm - 1980
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy - 1980
Stories by Rudyard Kipling - 1980
Anna Karennina by Leo Tolstoy - 1980
Rhetoric and On Poetics by Aristotle - 1981
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio - 1981
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - 1981
My Antonia by Willa Cather - 1981
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1981
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane - 1981
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot - 1981
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - 1981
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 1981
Selected Plays of William Shakespeare - 1981
The Red and the Black by Stendahl - 1981
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1981
Aesop's Fables - 1982
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - 1982
The Confessions of Saint Augustine - 1982
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper - 1982
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1982
Selected Essays by Michel De Montaigne - 1982
The Call of the Wild by Jack London - 1982
Mutiny on The Bounty by Nordhoff and Hall - 1982
Selected Lives from the Parallel Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - 1982
The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais - 1982
The Annals of Tacitus by 1982
Barchester Towers by Anthoney Trollope - 1982
The Aeneid by Virgil - 1982
Romantic Poets : William Blake to Edgar Allan Poe - 1982
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - 1983
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - 1983
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - 1983
The Reivers by William Faulkner - 1983
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - 1983
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James - 1983
Selected Stories by Guy de Maupassant - 1983
Selected Dialogues of Plato - 1983
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - 1983
Our Town / The Skin of our Teeth by Thornton Wilder - 1983
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1984
Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev - 1984
Comedies by Moliere - 1985
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - 1985
John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet - 1986
Mystery Series
Mousetrap and other plays by Agatha Christie - 1987
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - 1987
The Great cases of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 1987
The day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth - 1987
Ashenden (or British agent) by W. S. Maugham - 1987
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - 1987
Tales of mystery and imagination by Edgar Allan Poe - 1987 (black cover - gold bug)
Tales of mystery and imagination by Edgar Allan Poe - 1987 (red cover )
The Patience of Maigret by George Simenon - 1987
Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bently - 1988
The 39 Steps by John Buchan - 1988
Postman always rings twice by James M. Cain - 1988
Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler - 1988
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - 1988
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton - 1988
Blood Sport by Dick Francis - 1988
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens - 1988
The Man from the Sea by Michael Innes - 1988
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre - 1988
Fer-De-Lance by Rex Stout - 1988
Anatomy of Murder by Robert Traver - 1988
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - 1988
Great American Mysteries by various authors - 1989
The House without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers - 1989
Laura by Vera Caspary - 1989
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton - 1989
The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin - 1989
D.A. calls it Murder by Erle Stanley Gardner - 1989
Ghostly Tales by Henry James - 1989
A Kiss before Dying by Ira Levin - 1989
Thank you Mr. Moto and Mr. Moto is so sorry by John P. Marquand - 1989
The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen - 1989
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers - 1989
Strange case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1989
The Bride wore Black by Cornell Woolrich - 1989
Great British Mysteries of the 20th century by various authors - 1990
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham - 1990
A coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler - 1990
The Beast must Die by Nicolas Blake - 1990
The Benson Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine - 1990
Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester - 1990
Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser - 1990
Raffles by E. W. Hornung - 1990
Compulsion by Meyer Levin - 1990
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes -1990
Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh - 1990
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne - 1990
The Man in the corner by Baroness Orczy - 1990
The Door by Mary Rinehart - 1990
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer - 1990
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey - 1990
The Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace - 1990