The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha [by M. de Cervantes Saavedra. Transl.]. Abridged by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

Jones And Co., 1831. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1831. No edition remarks. 393 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Deckled edges. Rough cut edges. Pages are moderately tanned with heavy foxing. Heavy cracking to gutters, with mildly loose pages. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Notable thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and heavy marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to surfaces. Books has a backward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

Philadelphia : J.B. Smith & Co, 1861. Hardcover. Acceptable. Front board detached. Bound in leather. 8, 284 pages : illustrations. Chromolithographic front illustration.

Hardback. New.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1928. 314pp. Black cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. Gilt design on front board. Wear to corners and spine ends, but binding remains tight, hinges sound and spine straight. Toning to pages. Illustrated frontispiece, 16 illustrations in total, frontispiece included. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket has missing inch at foot and missing quarter inch at top, as well as missing chips at corners and a missing piece along lower edge of back panel. Rear jacket flap splitting from back panel but still attached for about lower third. Nonetheless, a seldom-seen jacket of a handsomely illustrated edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by W. Heath Robinson. Octavo.

London: Jones and Co. 1828. Second edition with these illustrations by Issac Robert Cruikshank (misspelt Cruickshank on the engraved title pages). Second edition with these illustrations by Issac Robert Cruikshank (misspelt Cruickshank on the engraved title pages). Two volumes. Publisher's original red-brown cloth with printed paper title labels to the spines. Page edges uncut. Complete with the half titles present in each volume. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece to volume one, additional engraved title pages to each volume and 25 full-page woodcut plates by Cruikshank. A very good set, the bindings square and firm with bumping to the corners and a couple of minor splits to the heads of the spines. The contents with a little cracking to the rear hinge of volume two, the engraved portrait frontispiece with a diagonal crease, a little raggedness to the edges and some spotting, light scattered foxing to the preliminary pages, and a neat contemporary previous owner's inscription… Read More