Gulliver's Travels
by Swift Jonathan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Signet / New American Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. Very Good / No Jacket, (as issued) Pictorial cover. Previous owner's name on front paste down, slight foxing on spine bottom. Text clean, Creasing on spine and some discoloration on edges. ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; 319 pages .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1294
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels
- Author
- Swift Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Signet / New American Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Adventure, Children's Fantasy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Science Fiction & Fantasy;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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