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Tecumseh , A Drama and Canadian Poems. (Master-Works of Canadian Authors, Volume XIV. With Introduction by Robert Norwood.
GARVIN, John. (editor). MAIR, Charles.
Published by Toronto: Radisson Society, 1926., 1926
Hardcover. Deluxe edition, limited to 974 copies. Tall 8vo. 470 pages, publishers leatherette spine, cloth, gilt decoration on spine, lxxii, 470pp. Very Good with small tear at top of spine. Minor sun fading at top of back cover

Hardcover. Condition: good with 1/3 of lower spine missing but interior tight and very nice. . First edition. Hardcover. 10 3/4'' X 8 1/4''.
Two volumes go for $600 and make make a complete set but THIS IS ONLY VOL 2.
. 486pp. ; 487-873pp. Illustrated with portraits and photographs

Very Rare 1751 Fifth Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift -Needs Some Restoration
"Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts by Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, Then a Captain of Several Ships"
The Fifth Edition, CorrectedLondon:Printed for Charles Bathurst, and Sold by T. Woodward, C. Davis, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley and W. Bowles.MDCCLI (1751)
About the Book:
Full Calf. Condition: Fair and needs some restoration but not that bad. This is the very rare 5th Edition, Corrected, viii, 296 pp., 6 copper plates. Spine and end page are loose. Note about this being a gift written on the inside back cover. Two different owners' book plates on inside front cover and first end page. The blank front end papers are browned at the edge an the second end paper has a small torn piece. Title page printed in red and black and that and all the rest of the pages look pretty clean with very minor foxing.
Interesting background on this book on the web:
Jonathan Swift initially did his best to… Read More