You want to gain Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written - and this is great, but do not stop at 100, because there are 125 books in the series. This circumstance travel a few collectors and eBay sellers. I often see sellers on eBay falsely advertising the full set of 100 The editor of Easton Press book has changed over the years, however, and since it takes years to buy up the crowd about it, the list has grown to 125. If you buy the number of them you will get only 100Books.
By the amount directly from Easton Press to buy about 8 or 9 years and $ contribute $ 5000. Purchase of books in this series on the Web, you can usually find them each for around $ 19 - $ 30. You could probably build an entire set for $ 3,000 and that in a week or so since the inventory available on the Internet.
What makes this set "collector"? Above all, the quality of the bonds, paper and endpapers. The quantity is finite and relatively affordable, plus they look at eachshelves - once you own one you will see. These editions have a rabid following.
The titles are not first editions (in this set) or unavailable elsewhere. The titles are interesting and the inclusion of some is debatable especially with a mix of non-fiction in it. Some may say the Bible or Koran should be included and not Darwin's "Origin of Species". Also the amount of books written in the 1800's and the inclusion of many plays may bother some. There are few books from the 20th Century (especially from the 1920s), not because they are not large, but rather Easton Press did not want the rights to them to pay to publish them as the older titles in the public sector. There are some remarkable selection of stories by great authors such as Charles Dickens.
Regardless of the inconsistencies in some of the selection of books in this series for a casual book collector is a good way to build a fine library of books.
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