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NEW YORK: BOOKS, INC., 1941 LIGHT GRAY TEXTURED COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT, RED REINFORCED SPINE. LIGHT WEAR OUTSIDE AND FADING SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK BY RHEAD. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. BEAUTIFUL COLOR ARTWORK FRONTISPIECE. SHAKESPEARE MOST FAMOUS WORKS. INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish[1] satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,[2] hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Gulliver's Travels, or 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 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift… Read More

MacMillan. Very Good. 1932. Hardcover. Reddish-brown covers are a little soiled, rubbed and mottled, no other defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . Gulliver's Travels, with 100 wonderful pen and ink drawings by Charles E. Brock. Pocket-sized. . Ink drawing. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 381 pages. M4 .

London: Bliss Sands & Foster, 1896. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gilt decorated green cloth boards. Inner hinges are cracked. Ex library copy with label, ink stamps and usual handling wear. No jacket.

Porter & Coates Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. No date but circa 1890. In green cloth decorated in black and gilt. Light wear to cloth at spine ends. .

PA: Porter And Coates, 1886. Hardcover. Good. Later. Decorative brown and gold stamped cloth. Illustrated with black and white plates. Spine lean, hinges cracked, comtemporary gif inscription neatly inked on front fly, pages browned, cloth edges rubbed, good or bettter. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

the New York Publishing Co. , Unknown. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. "Empire Edition". Looks to be Pre 1900. 333 pages. Pages are unmarked, though tanned and with some minor foxing/soiling marks. Previous owner's inscription on end paper. Covers show edge wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition. Hardback. No jacket issued. SELLER'S DESCRIPTION - first printing. 316 pages (308, 8 advts) plus 16 colourtype plates, top edge gilt; publisher's pictorial beige buckram printed blue, beige and black, blocked gilt (spine and front cover). CONDITION - Very Good, without writing or ot

New York, New York, U.S.A: John Wurtele Lovell, 1880. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 5" X 7 1/2. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. 333, 133 pp. Text clean and unmarked except for bookseller's stamp at flyleaf. Pages slightly toned. Frontispiece engraved illustration. Light brown cloth boards decorated in black at front and spine. lettered in gilt at spine. Boards scuffed and soiled, edges rubbed, spine top and tail rubbed, corners bumped. Front hinge slightly mobile, back hinge firm, textblock firm, binding overall good.

London: London: Macmillan 1980 Facsimile Edition cr.8vo xxxii,381,3pp ill., 1980 Fine original cloth, in fine protected DW. A facsimile copy of the 1894 Macmillan edition.

London, Macmillan, 1894.. xxxii+381pp. 8vo. Bound in later blue buckram with gilt titles on spine. Top edge gilt. Foxing to early and rear pages. Previous owner's name and address on title page. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1938. First Penguin Edition, 1st Printing . Wrappers. Fine Book/Very Good + DJ. Wood-engravings By Theodore Nash. Two volumes: 1. The Penguin Illustrated Classics, Volume C10, 6d price on front flap of DJ, first printing, 1938. The last two pages of the catalogue include The Penguin Shakespeare and Pelican Books. 2. An early issue, possibly an advance copy, using the standard covers for Typee [C8] with the entire book Gulliver's Travels, text and catalogues, lacking the final page of the catalogue regularly issued with C10, as issued, and with the red stamp of the New York Penguin office for inquiries; no dust jacket or price on covers, but last page of catalogue has 6p price above the stamp. From the collection of Ian Ballantine, who was the American representative of Penguin Books prior to his founding of Ballantine Books in 1952. Each book from the Ballantine collection comes with a loose card indicating it is from the library of Ian and Betty Ballantine. 1. Book is… Read More

1894 London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. First Edition thus. Duodecimo (7-3/8" tall). Bound in dark green cloth with illustrations and titles in gilt, all edges also gilt with black eps. The FC was bent and has verticle wrinkles, moderate spine lean. Moderate water staining on the lower edges of pages (does not intrude upon the text.) Quite scarce.

Edinburgh: G. Hamilton & J. Balfour and L. Hunter (circa 1757). 12mo. bound in 6's. viii, (8), 530 pp., Full brown calf binding, with raised bands and all edges marbled. Detached front board. Slight marks to the title page and volume 3 is covered up with a paper label, minor stain to the top edge. Occasional pencil marginalia and binding firm. . Good. Full Calf. 1757.

London: John C. Nimmo. Collectible-Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1886. LeatherBound. 8vo., 429 pp., 1/2 leather and marbled boards. Slight rubbed front hinge plus other wear. .

Very Rare 1751 Fifth Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift -Needs Some Restoration
"Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts by Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, Then a Captain of Several Ships"
The Fifth Edition, CorrectedLondon:Printed for Charles Bathurst, and Sold by T. Woodward, C. Davis, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley and W. Bowles.MDCCLI (1751)
About the Book:
Full Calf. Condition: Fair and needs some restoration but not that bad. This is the very rare 5th Edition, Corrected, viii, 296 pp., 6 copper plates. Spine and end page are loose. Note about this being a gift written on the inside back cover. Two different owners' book plates on inside front cover and first end page. The blank front end papers are browned at the edge an the second end paper has a small torn piece. Title page printed in red and black and that and all the rest of the pages look pretty clean with very minor foxing.
Interesting background on this book on the web:
Jonathan Swift initially did his best to… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2011. Deluxe Limited Edition. Leather. Near Fine/Near Fine Slipcase. Grandville. Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition, hand-numbered 189 of 500. With the Grandville illustrations from the classic 1840 edition. Title page reads, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships. Illustrated with upwards of four hundred wood-engravings from designs by Grandville. With copious notes, a life of the author, and an essay on satirical fiction by W. C. Taylor, LL.D." Springhill Opaque paper in the warm white shade and eggshell texture of the original edition. Marbled endapers froma pattern created exclusively for this edition by Peggy Skycraft. Full leather binding. Cowhide leather imported from Italy. Lithography by Falcon Press of Tennessee. Custom multicolor binding and slipcase by BindTech, of Nashville. Unmarked and clean. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Exterior looks new,… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2011. Limted Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Suart, Peter. Folio. Vellum tips and quarter vellum spine with gilt lettering. Illustrated front board. Top edge gilt. This edition limited to 1000 copies, each with an original etching signed and numbered by the artist. With tipped-in illustrations throughout. In a clamshell box with label to spine. A fine copy.

London: Charles Bathurst, 1749 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None. E. M. Forster's personal copy of the very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. The very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's fantastical novel about the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver in Lilliput, with a wonderful literary association. From the library of Nobel Prize for Literature nominated English novelist E. M. Forster, best known for works including 'A Room with a View', 'Howards End' and 'A Passage to India'. Illustrated with six plates of maps. Collated, complete.With E. M. Forster's bookplate to the head of the front free endpaper, and the armorial bookplate of his aunt, Laura Mary Forster (1839-1924), to the front pastedown. Laura passed much of her library on to her nephew, an intellectual known for her philanthropic activity, and for maintaining correspondences with William Morris and Henriette Darwin, Charles Darwin's eldest daughter.In his biography of his another aunt, Marianne… Read More

London: Benj. Motte [Benjamin], 1727. Fourth octavo edition. Hardcover. Very good -. Octavo, 4 parts in 2 volumes. Though a stated "Second Edition," which comports with Teerink's second edition, this is understood to be the fourth octavo edition, with 24 leaves of verses preceding the first Part, understood to have been authored by Alexander Pope. Overall about very good in contemporary brown calf, with gilt borders and spines. Marbled endpapers and edges (though the marbling to the edges is almost entirely faded away). Spines heavily faded, with some of the leather dried out, but there are visible remnants of an armorial design on the spine, which very likely corresponds to the armorial bookplate on the front paste-down of each volume (that of "Courtown"). Corners slightly worn. Some outer joints tender, even almost cracked, but holding strong. Externally a somewhat worn, but apparently unrestored example, and uncommon thus. Frontispiece in second state (as called for here),… Read More

London: Benj. Motte, 1726. 1st Issue of 1st Ed. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 148&164pp.; HB blue/red marble w/leather spine-5bands; heavy rub w/edges&corners worn; spine cracked,scuffed,&worn; ft.hinge cracked w/ink info.on pastedwn.; some lt.fox; pgs.w/slight tan,but clean,&tight. Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput. Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag. 1st issue of 1st ed.