The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
by Defoe, Daniel
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
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About This Item
London and New York: John Lane the Bodley Head/Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. Book. Illus. by John Austen. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Black hardcover with title in gilt on sine and front cover. Condition: Good, covers are generally lightly shelfworn, with the fading to the gilt titling on the spine, but not the front cover. Endpapers are quite foxed. Text and illustrations within volume are clean and bright. Dustjacket condition: Good, with a small area of tiny paint splashes to front of the jacket, general light shelfwear, more so to head and tail of spine with some loss and chipping. 333pp. Beautifully illustrated by John Austen..
Synopsis
Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe's themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1721 edition printed by Chetwood in London, the only edition approved by Defoe.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006215
- Title
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
- Author
- Defoe, Daniel
- Illustrator
- John Austen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- John Lane the Bodley Head/Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- moll flanders, robinson crusoe
- Bookseller catalogs
- English Literature;
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
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- Shelfwear
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- Tail
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
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