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The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Heirloom Library, London, No date circa 1950. First Thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Mervyn Peake. Bound in patterned beige cloth showing alternate images in red and green of boat and shack below palm tree; this edition has a colour frontis., 7 colour plates, b/w. drawings & colour illustrated end-papers all by Mervyn Peake. The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel by Johann David Wyss, written to entertain his four sons & first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Top edge green. Gilt titles on green panel spine. Illustrator: Mervyn Peake. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Children's Fiction; Childrens; Adventure; Fiction. Inventory No: 4582. .
Synopsis
The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4582
- Title
- The Swiss Family Robinson
- Author
- Johann David Wyss
- Illustrator
- Mervyn Peake
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heirloom Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- No date circa 1950
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Children/Fiction/Childrens/Adventure/Children's Fiction Children; Children's Fiction; Childrens; Adventure; Fiction. Mervyn Peake Unbranded Johann David Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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