These 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" books have dark green hard covers with gilt decoration on the fronts and spine with gilt lettering on the spine. The titles included as found on the spines are: The Odyssey (translated by R. Fitzgerald); The Illiad (translated by R. Lattimore); Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri); War & Peace (Leo Tolstoy); Bulfinch's Mythology (Thomas Bulfinch); Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer); Crime & Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky); Travels of Marco Polo, The Venetian (Translated by W. Marsden); Seven Pillars of Wisdom (T. E. Lawrence) Selected Poems of Byron, Keats & Shelley (edited by Elliot Coleman); Last Days of Pompeii (Edward Bulwar-Lytton); The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Franklin); Volume 2 of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (edited by W. Clark & W. Wright); Selections from The Arabian Knights (Translated by Richard Burton); and Essays and Journals (Ralph Waldo Emerson). These used books look great on a shelf and have mark free interiors that are quite clean.