swift jonathan gulliver lemuel (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.34.

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. No dust jacket. Minor shelf wear and dust darkening/marking to red cloth boards. A tan to untrimmed page edges. Contents remain clear and firmly bound within. A good condition book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Later. Decorative brown and gold stamped cloth. Illustrated with black and white plates. Spine lean, hinges cracked, comtemporary gif inscription neatly inked on front fly, pages browned, cloth edges rubbed, good or bettter.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 16mo. [n.d., ca. 1900]. With copious notes, and a life of the author, by W.C. Taylor. 360 p.p. Maroon cloth boards with black stamped decoration and titling. Spine is sunned, tilted, and bumped at ends, some wear to front joint at head, bumping and rubbing to corners. Pages are age toned. One of the unique books of world literature, Swift's masterful satire describes the astonishing voyages of one Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, to surreal kingdoms inhabited by miniature people and giants, quack philosophers and scientists, horses endowed with reason and men who behave like beasts. Written with great wit and invention, Gulliver's Travels is a savage parody on man and his institutions that has captivated readers for nearly three centuries. 0.

xxxii+381pp. 8vo. Bound in later blue buckram with gilt titles on spine. Top edge gilt. Foxing to early and rear pages. Previous owner's name and address on title page. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 12mo. [n.d., ca. 1900]. With copious notes, and a life of the author, by W.C. Taylor. 360 p.p. Brown cloth boards with green and black stamped decoration and titling. Spine is sunned, tilted, and bumped at ends, some wear to front joint at head, bumping and rubbing to corners. Hinges cracking in a few places, pages are age toned. Ink ownership inscription to front pastedown. Pages 32-33 are glued together at inner margin, some glue on pages. Bumping to fore edge of text block. Pencil scribble to p. 153. One of the unique books of world literature, Swift's masterful satire describes the astonishing voyages of one Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, to surreal kingdoms inhabited by miniature people and giants, quack philosophers and scientists, horses endowed with reason and men who behave like beasts. Written with great wit and invention, Gulliver's Travels is a savage parody on man and his institutions that has captivated readers for nearly three centuries. 0.

Zustand: Very Good. 1894. Hardback. First Charles Brock edition. Rebound in half leather over marbled boards, five-banded gilt decorated spine with leather title label, in a cloth slipcase. Boards showing very light shelf wear. Uncut page edges, lightly spotting. Light spotting throughout, however text, and Brock's illustrations are crisp and fresh, and remains a fine copy. . . . .

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). E. M. Forster's personal copy of the very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. The very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's fantastical novel about the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver in Lilliput, with a wonderful literary association.From the library of Nobel Prize for Literature nominated English novelist E. M. Forster, best known for works including 'A Room with a View', 'Howards End' and 'A Passage to India'.Illustrated with six plates of maps. Collated, complete.With E. M. Forster's bookplate to the head of the front free endpaper, and the armorial bookplate of his aunt, Laura Mary Forster (1839-1924), to the front pastedown. Laura passed much of her library on to her nephew, an intellectual known for her philanthropic activity, and for maintaining correspondences with William Morris and Henriette Darwin, Charles Darwin's eldest daughter.In his biography of his another aunt, Marianne Thornton, Forster described Laura with the passage: 'she followed the Thornton pattern of intellectual and philanthropic activity, but she could be censorious of her elders, and is constantly taking them up and dusting them before she replaces them, with a word of c0mmendation, on their shelf. In her later life she changed became gentler, wiser, greater'.ESTC reference numberT51599. This was simultaneously issued as volume thirteen of the Bathurst edition of Swift's works, which were published between 1745 and 1747.With the former owner's inscription R. Coke to the head of the front pastedown, and the inscription of Mr. Richards to the recto of a front blank.First published in 1726, immediately successful and now a classic of English Literature, Swift claimed he wrote the novel 'to vex the world rather than divert it'. Rebacked, in a full calf binding with gilt detailing to back strip. Original boards restored, retaining the original endpapers. Externally, lovely. Former owner's inscription and armorial bookplate to front pastedown, with name label to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to perimeters of title page, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.