Billy Budd, Sailor; The Piazza Tales (The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers)

351 pp. Original blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by J. William Myers. A collection of short works by the author of Moby Dick, including: Billy Budd, Sailor; The Piazza; Bartleby; Benito Cereno; The Lightning-Rod Man; The Encantadas; and The Bell-Tower.