swift jonathan davis herbert landa (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Boards. Davis, Herbert and Louis Landa (Eds.) (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, octavo, pp.xxx, 386, incl Index, half-title vignette, b&w fronts. port., ex-lib with remains of sticker and pocket to ffep, stamp to rear t.p. and white ink number lower spine, otherwise clean, orig bds., bumped, rubbed, spine faded, uncut, good condn. Jonathan Swift is well known for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Name to front flyleaf, fine thereafter. No textual markings or annotations. Light tanning to the page block, edges dusted. Unclipped dust jacket. General edge wear and chipping, with a short closed tear to the spine bottom back edge (approx. 2cm), else age-toning (heavy to the spine) and light shelf-marking only. (Now in a protective archival cover.) Green cloth with gilt titling to the spine (the titling is dulled but perfectly legible). The boards remain sound and secure, BUT show notable staining to the front and the back. In sum: a very good reading or study copy, under an essentially complete dust jacket. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Herbert Davis ('Tracts') and Louis Landa ('Sermons'). Frontis, xxx, 386pp.