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Gulliver's Travels (The Modern Readers' Series)
by Swift, Jonathan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Macmillan, 1927. First edition thus. The Modern Readers' Series. Half leather. Published NY: Macmillan, 1927, first printing. 12mo., 5 1/4" x 7 1/4", xxxii+316pp. Introduction by Rupert Taylor. Half green leather over green linen cloth with gilt spine titles and designs, top edge gilting, pictorial endpapers. Mild sun darkening to the spine, bleed darkening to pastedowns at contact areas of binder's underlay, light rub at spine ends and outer hinges, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Near fine, tight, crisp. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo.
Synopsis
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. The book became tremendously popular as soon as it was published.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009445
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels (The Modern Readers' Series)
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1927
- Size
- 12mo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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