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EREWHON REVISITED: Twenty Years Later Both by the Original Discover of the Country and by His Son
by Butler, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else bright, very good copy with straight binding and only minor nicks at the spine ends.
- Seller
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Derry, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London: Grant Richards, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else bright, very good copy with straight binding and only minor nicks at the spine ends.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Satirical novel and sequel to EREWHON (1872). Explores similar themes to the first book and is sometimes compared to Jonathan Swift's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. Octavo, original maroon cloth, stamped in gold, top edges gilt. Includes errata slip tipped-in just before the preface. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers.
Synopsis
Before telling the story of my father's second visit to the remarkable country which he discovered now some thirty years since, I should perhaps say a few words about his career between the publication of his book in 1872, and his death in the early summer of 1891. I shall thus touch briefly on the causes that occasioned his failure to maintain that hold on the public which he had apparently secured at first.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50739
- Title
- EREWHON REVISITED
- Author
- Butler, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else bright, very good copy with straight binding and only minor nicks at the spine ends.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Grant Richards
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- fiction, scifi, english, mmb
Terms of Sale
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Please note that all items are offered subject to prior sale. All our books are FIRST EDITIONS and FIRST PRINTINGS unless noted otherwise. All dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. All books are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 10 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Derry, New Hampshire
About Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Modern first editions - mainly American and English - many of the books being signed; poetry, poetry broadsides, and press books. Most of our holdings are modern and fairly contemporary, and feature both mainstream and genre fiction (e.g. contemporary literature, detective & science fiction), with emphasis on notable writers and literary prize-winners in both prose and poetry.
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- Gilt
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- Errata
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- Edges
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