Selling Beautiful Set of "Great Books of the Western World" (Britannica)
Hey all! I've (STILL) been on a bit of an LJ-hiatus for a while; not feeling very social lately. I'll be back, in a while, fear not. Anyway, I'm still jobhunting (December is NOT the best time for that!) and also needing $$ to get by....
So, I've listed my set of Great Books of the Western World by Encyclopædia Britannica in a Craigslist Ad and here in a post on LJ in los_angeles. See both posts for all the info -- the Craigslist Ad has lots of details, and the LJ post offers an LJ discount.
This lovely set of books is available to anyone who can come to pick up the set (Los Angeles Area: Alhambra), or arrange to get them somehow. I will ship them to anyone who wants them, at cost.
Feel free to spread the this link or the craigslist ad to anyone you see fit.
Just getting over a damned cold (not fair after that nasty kidney infection!), still kinda out of it. December jobhunting does suck mightily! :(
UPDATE: I see that eBay sellers list various amounts to ship this set. If you wanted these shipped to you, it might be something like $30-45 for USPS Media Mail.
UPDATE 2 Price drop for LJ folks to $200 (pick up or pay actual cost of shipping)
UPDATE 3 Text of my (now expired) Craigslist ad, pasted here for my later use:
► Great Books of the Western World: 54 Vol. (Enc. Britannica) CLASSICS
$225
Great Books of the Western World is a 54-volume set of beautiful hardbound books with gold lettering on the spine and gold along the upper edge of the pages. Wikipedia says Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes.
This would be an AMAZING gift for someone special!
OR... maybe this is the set of classics YOU'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF!!
This is the above-mentioned 1952 edition of Britianncia's Great Books of the Western World. The Great ideas I & II are an index that will enable you to quickly find any subject matter you are looking for. The Great Books' spines also guide you to the four subject areas:
Green: NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, PLAYS, and POETRY
Red: PHILOSOPHY and RELIGION
Blue: HISTORY, POLITICS, ECONOMICS, and ETHICS
Grey: MATHEMATICS and NATURAL SCIENCES
TITLES OF BOOKS:
Volume 1 - The Great Conversation
Volume 2 - The Great Ideas I
Volume 3 - The Great Ideas II
Volume 4 - Homer
Volume 5 - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristohanes
Volume 6 - Herodotus, Thucydides
Volume 7 - Plato
Volume 8 - Aristotle I
Volume 9 - Aristotle II
Volume 10 - Hippocrates, Galen
Volume 11 - Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus
Volume 12 - Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
Volume 13 - Virgil
Volume 14 - Plutarch
Volume 15 - Tacitus
Volume 16 - Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
Volume 17 - Plotinus
Volume 18 - Augustine
Volume 19 - Thomas Aquinas I
Volume 20 - Thomas Aquinas II
Volume 21 - Dante
Volume 22 - Chaucer
Volume 23 - Machiavelli Hobbes
Volume 24 - Rabelais
Volume 25 - Montaigne
Volume 26 - Shakespeare I
Volume 27 - Shakespeare II
Volume 28 - Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey
Volume 29 - Cervantes
Volume 30 - Francis Bacon
Volume 31 - Descartes, Spinoza
Volume 32 - Milton
Volume 33 - Pascal
Volume 34 - Newton, Huygens
Volume 35 - Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Volume 36 - Swift, Sterne
Volume 37 - Fielding
Volume 38 - Montesquieu, Rousseau
Volume 39 - Adam Smith
Volume 40 - Gibbon I
Volume 41 - Gibbon II
Volume 42 - Kant
Volume 43 - American State Papers, The Federalist, J. S. Mill
Volume 44 - Boswell
Volume 45 - Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday
Volume 46 - Hegel
Volume 47 - Goethe
Volume 48 - Melville
Volume 49 - Darwin
Volume 50 - Marx, Engels
Volume 51 - Tolstoy
Volume 52 - Dostoevsky
Volume 53 - William James
Volume 54 - Freud
These books make a perfect addition to a student or home library. In addition, they have a beautiful look on your shelves -- note the gold on the spines and on the top edges on the pages (visible in the second photo below).
The set I'm selling is NEARLY NEW, almost completely unread (they languished in boxes for years -- I didn't have room!). A book or two has dents in the cover on the right edge of the books (not visible on shelf).
Amazon.com is selling a "good" copy of this set for $225 -- but we know that "good" isn't so good. They're selling more decent copies for around $300 and up.
I am selling my beautiful NEAR NEW set for $225, with (of course) NO SHIPPING CHARGE -- just come pick them up! I'll supply the boxes.
In addition, I will include three volumes entitled The Great Ideas Today, volumes 1985, 1986, and 1987. These were annual supplemental volumes published yearly by Encyclopædia Britannica.
Contact me by phone (preferred) at [DELETED] between Noon and 10pm, or email. Come pick them up any day!! CASH ONLY! (no exceptions)
PICTURES:
(1) 52 of the 54 volumes (the last two wouldn't fit on my two shelves!).
(2) The last two volumes of the Great Books (see the gold on the top of the pages), plus the three volumes of "The Great Ideas Today".