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Gulliver's Travels (Printed in Phonography)
by Dean Swift
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Fred Pitman; Isaac Pitman, 1871. Hardcover. Good. 1871. No edition remarks. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing. Notable cracking to front hinge and mild to rear hinge. Previous owner's inscription to reverse of front hinge and title page. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking and mottling to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and chipping to ends.
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
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1709804351BWS
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels (Printed in Phonography)
- Author
- Dean Swift
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Fred Pitman; Isaac Pitman
- Date Published
- 1871
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
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