Author: SWIFT, JONATHAN
Title: Gulliver's Travels with a Tale of the Tub and the Battle of the Books (Modern Library #100. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1948]. Hardcover. A Modern Library hardcover edition of Jonathan Swift's classic "Gulliver's Travels," offered along with his satires "A Tale of a Tub" and "The Battle of the Books." Includes facsimiles of original title pages and maps. With an introduction by Carl Van Doren. Volume wrapped in blue and tan typographic variant dust jacket. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 329 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1948 (though 1931 date appears in book). ML #100.2. --- With infrequent discreet pencilings, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.25) with chipping and small tears and slight darkening to spine, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xiii, 550, (8, ads) pages. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Title: Gulliver's Travels with a Tale of the Tub and the Battle of the Books (Modern Library #100. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1948]. Hardcover. A Modern Library hardcover edition of Jonathan Swift's classic "Gulliver's Travels," offered along with his satires "A Tale of a Tub" and "The Battle of the Books." Includes facsimiles of original title pages and maps. With an introduction by Carl Van Doren. Volume wrapped in blue and tan typographic variant dust jacket. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 329 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1948 (though 1931 date appears in book). ML #100.2. --- With infrequent discreet pencilings, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.25) with chipping and small tears and slight darkening to spine, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xiii, 550, (8, ads) pages. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Price: US$ 16.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87321
- Book number: 87321