New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1954. Hardcover. Illustrations by Milo Winter. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules and front board color plate. 382pp. Color frontispiece, 11 called-for full-page color plates, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Faint edgewear only, else internally fine. Tight and attractive early printing of this volume in the charming "Windermere Series" first published in 1916 -- here likely early 1920s vintage.

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Robinson Crusoe was first published in April 1719, in London. In the beginning, the story was published as an autobiography, but it was later established that the author was Daniel Defoe. The novel became an instant classic, with four editions printed in the first year of publication. Often called the first English novel, it follows the story of Robinson Crusoe, a man marooned on an island. Crusoe’s adventure-packed story of survival started the genre of realistic fiction and inspired a slew of other survival novels. Over the course of its publication history, Robinson Crusoe has become the second-most translated book in the world.

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Bookseller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 45221
Title: Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: DEFOE, Daniel
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Rand McNally & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1954
Bookseller catalogs: Books; Children's; British Literature;

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...