Author: FIELDING, HENRY
Title: The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams (First Modern Library Edition, ML #117. 3)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1939. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 2080128116. A stated First Modern Library edition, 1939 (confirmed by number of ML titles listed on verso of DJ) of Henry Fielding's 1742 satirical novel, which originally included the sub-title: "Written in imitation of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote." With an introduction by Howard Mumford Jones. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on burgundy spine & cover blocks / red topstain / plain endpapers / jacket style g, verso lists 268 titles in ML catalog. ML #117.3. --- With inked and penciled underlinings and notations infrequently scattered through the text, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped dust jacket with chafing to spine ends and with additional small chips and tears; moderately sunned spine, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxxviii, 422 pages. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Modern >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Title: The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams (First Modern Library Edition, ML #117. 3)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1939. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 2080128116. A stated First Modern Library edition, 1939 (confirmed by number of ML titles listed on verso of DJ) of Henry Fielding's 1742 satirical novel, which originally included the sub-title: "Written in imitation of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote." With an introduction by Howard Mumford Jones. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on burgundy spine & cover blocks / red topstain / plain endpapers / jacket style g, verso lists 268 titles in ML catalog. ML #117.3. --- With inked and penciled underlinings and notations infrequently scattered through the text, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped dust jacket with chafing to spine ends and with additional small chips and tears; moderately sunned spine, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxxviii, 422 pages. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Modern >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Price: US$ 22.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86184
- Book number: 86184