Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Henry Altemus Company, 1896. Presumed First US Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. This is a Attractive Olive Green cloth Young Readers Hardback. The condition is Very Good+. No jacket. c1896. (55) illustrations. The book is solid with a bright cover, very little wear. The edges are very nice with a little spine end wear. The Illustration on the cover and the spine is very bright. The corners are also very good. The pages are tight with only a few pages with age marks. No tears or highlighting, no names. 215 pages + great advertising pages. #20365
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn David Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020365
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels
- Author
- Jonathan Swift
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First US Edition.
- Publisher
- Henry Altemus Company
- Date Published
- 1896
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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