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Gulliver's Travels
by Swift, Jonathan (EDITED By Colin McKelvie)
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312353251
- ISBN 13
- 9780312353254
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About This Item
Appletree Press, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. James Millar. STATED FIRST U.S. Edition - THUS. A Very Fine volume, bound in green leatherette with gilt spine titles. Black Dust Jacket with white flaps, is Fine - due to an approx. 1" shallow line impression on front panel (from overwriting). White flaps mildly sunned. A small previous owner name (dated 1981) on blank front free end-paper, else no markings. This scholarly edition includes unpublished portions of Swifts manuscript corrections. Illustrated with b/w drawings throughout. Facsimiles of four pages of Swift's original manuscript are placed - two at front of volume and two pages at rear of text. An eight page Appendix at rear. 266 pages. Mylar protected jacket.
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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005206
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan (EDITED By Colin McKelvie)
- Illustrator
- James Millar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312353251
- ISBN 13
- 9780312353254
- Publisher
- Appletree Press
- Place of Publication
- Gordonsville, Virginia, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- classic; Fantasy; illustrated; Reference;/
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