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Gulliver's Travels

Name: Gulliver's Travels
Price: 500.00 GBP
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Author: Swift, Jonathan

by Swift, Jonathan

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London / New York: J. M. Dent & Co. / E. P. Dutton & Co. 1909. Large 8vo.Illustrated. xv, 291 pp., Red, gilt decorated cloth, with printed dustjacket and top edge gilt. Jacket is marked and edgeworn with loss to the edges and splits to the hinges, 12 cm and 6cm. The front flap is loose. Boards are fresh and bright. Internally clean and bright, with an owners name to the front endpaper. Ilustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham with black and white textual illustrations and 12 colour plates, complete. . Near Fine. Gilt Decorated Cloth. First US Edition. 1909.

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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: Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 64911
Title: Gulliver's Travels
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Illustrator: RACKHAM, Arthur ( illustrated )
Format/Binding: Gilt Decorated Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First US Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Co. / E. P. Dutton & Co. 1909
Place of Publication: London / New York
Date Published: 1909
Size: Large 8vo.Illustrated
Keywords: arthur,rackham,gullivers,travels,jonathan,swift
Bookseller catalogs: Literature; Illustrated;

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