I've got over thirty of the titles, and have found a number of others, but have never been able to locate a complete list of titles for this series.
I AM SEEKING THIS INFORMATION AND WOULD LIKE TO COMPLETE THIS COLLECTION AS LONG AS THE NUMBER OF VOLUMES IS REASONABLY FINITE.
Alas, Walter J. Black went out of business in the 1980s.
Here is the list of titles and authors that I either have or have confirmed are in the series:
| Own? | Title | Author |
| true | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| false | Autobiography | Benjamin Franklin |
| true | Discourses | Epictetus |
| true | Essays and New Atlantis | Francis Bacon |
| true | Essays, Poems, Addresses | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| true | Fathers and Sons | Turgenev |
| true | Five Great Dialogues | Plato |
| true | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| true | Henry Esmond | Thackeray |
| false | Lives of the Saints | |
| true | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius |
| true | Old Goriot | Balzac |
| true | On Man In The Universe | Aristotle |
| true | On Politics And Education | John Locke |
| true | On The Nature Of Things | Lucretius |
| true | Paradise Lost and Other Poems | John Milton |
| false | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| false | Progress and Poverty | Henry George |
| false | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| true | Selected Essays | Montaigne |
| true | Selected Lives And Essays | Plutarch |
| false | Selected Plays | Henrik Ibsen |
| true | Selected Poems | Horace |
| true | Selected Poems | Walt Whitman |
| true | Selected Poems | Robert Browning |
| false | Selected Stories | Anton Chekov [ADDED] |
| false | Selected Tales and Poems | Edgar Allan Poe |
| true | Selected Works | Cicero |
| true | Thaïs/Sylvestre Bonnard | Anatole France |
| true | The Beginnings of Modern Science | Boynton |
| false | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| true | The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Vol. I, Comedies | William Shakespeare |
| true | The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Vol. II, Histories | William Shakespeare |
| true | The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Vol. III, Tragedies | William Shakespeare |
| false | The Golden Treasury | Palgrave |
| true | The History of Plymouth | William Bradford |
| true | The Iliad | Homer |
| true | The Law of War and Peace | Hugo Grotius |
| true | The Odyssey | Homer |
| true | The Praise of Folly | Erasmus |
| false | The Rubiyat | Omar Khayyam |
| true | The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler |
| true | Two Years Before The Mast | Richard Henry Dana |
| true | Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| true | Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
I have 36. By my count I'm missing 12 on your list, bringing the total to 48. I have Dickens christmas carol, not on your list.
ReplyDeleteMy list shows 49 volumes, and I've found a 1950's advertisement for six Charles Dickens volumes which adds 4 more to the list because A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities are repeated.
ReplyDeleteI know this is an old post but it's been great as I set out to fill in my collection. Do you do you have the missing Dickens titles? I know the set includes A Christmas Carol and Tale of Two Cities.
ReplyDeleteThere is also a fourth Shakespeare book titled "Complete Works". I assume it has much of the same content as volumes 1-3 but in the spirit of collecting a full set, it becomes a must have. I also have "Selected Stories and Poems by Bret Harte", which is not on the original list. And does anyone have the author for Lives of the Saints?
Happy book hunting!
Not sure how old the comments are but regarding the bottom question by Unknown: "And does anyone have the author for Lives of the Saints?" If you're Catholic, it's Father Alban Butler. There is an old Polish Version by a Polish Jesuit but I'm pretty sure that the common "Lives of the Saints" is by Fr. Butler.
ReplyDeleteI have 47 books now and missing at least 3. I don't have the Canterbury Tales, Lives of Saints or Crime and Punishment. I have seen photos of the last two so I know they exist. I also only have 2 Dickens books, from the previous comment there may be 2 more.
ReplyDeletethis auction lists 39 books and has a picture of them
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rug-auction.com/auction-lot/classics-collection-club-by-walter-j.-black-39_20E4483A6D
I just started looking for a set for myself because I remember my mother had the set at one time, but she gave it away or sold it in a garage sale not thinking that I might want it.
ReplyDeleteI believe I had found one at a thrift store, but I can't remember which one right now. Like you, I have no idea how many volumes it consists of. You would think Wikipedia would have a complete list, and many of the sellers online want an arm and a leg for what they are tryign to pawn off on us.
Eventually, I also want to find a leather bound set of Tolstoy's novels and other writings as well as some other authors that may not be in the Classics Club collection.
One of my goals is to have my own personal library of the classics in hardbacks, that I can eventually pass on.
- Harold Dean Sink
Tulsa, OK
1-20-2024