The 100 Greatest* Books 
Tver Written, 
The world's greatest works of literature 
bound in genuine leather and accented with real 22kt gold . 
I t is not difficult to list the world's 
greatest books. The titles and authors 
eap quickly to mind. And for good rea- 
son. The books that have been recognized 
is great, generation after generation, are 
bart of the world we live in. They have 
haped our lives, our language, our values, 
pur outlook. 
These books include novels like Mel- 
ville's Moby Dick, Dickens' A Tale of Two 
Zities, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Bronte's 
Nuthering Heights. They include serious — 
vet highly readable — works of thought 
ike Plato's Republic... heroic epics like Hom- 
er's Iliad... sharp-witted satire like Swift's 
ulliver's Travels... brilliant poetry like Whit- 
nan's Leaves of Grass. 
On everyone's list would be the great 
yorks of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dante, 
Darwin, and Twain. These are books you 
vant on your bookshelf. Books you want 
rour children and their children to read, 
^vnd now you can have them — the ultimate 
private library. 
The Volumes Themselves 
are Works of Art 
Your pride in this collection will be two- 
old — arising both from the significance 
md stature of each literary masterpiece 
..and from the sheer beauty of each vol- 
lme. Every volume in this unique private 
library will exemplify the ultimate in the 
art of printing, binding, and illustration. 
Genuine Leather Bindings 
Today it is rare to find books bound in 
genuine leather. The cost of such bind- 
ings and the time required to create them 
has made the crafting of such bindings an 
almost vanishing art. But each book in this 
collection will be bound in genuine leather! 
Intricate Cover Designs 
Accented With Real 22kt Gold 
Each luxurious leather binding will be 
deeply inlaid with real gold on the spine 
and in perfectly-matched golden designs 
on the front and back covers. Then, to 
bring out the full beauty of each cover 
design, the pages will be gilded along all 
three sides with a special golden finish. 
Elegant Finishing Touches 
Each volume will have beautiful end- 
sheets of rich moire fabric and a matching 
ribbon page marker. Each volume will be 
bound with a "hubbed" spine that is char- 
acteristic of only the finest books. In every 
respect, this is to be a collection which 
rivals anything seen in the great private 
libraries of days gone by. 
Exciting Diversity 
The hallmark of a distinctive library is 
diversity. Therefore, the volumes in the 
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