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Jacket lightly rubbed and nicked. Size: Octavo . Category: Literature & Literary; Seller Inventory # 75908
Title: A Tale of a Tub. With Other Early Works 1696...
Publisher: Basil Blackwell, Oxford
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: 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. A good condition copy. No dust jacket, rubbed edges with some short splits to spine edge but binding remains in place. Name on ffep with tan and some foxing to page edges. Good reading copy. Seller Inventory # mon0016999970
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. light green cloth, gilt lettering, 311 pp, spine lightly soiled, top edge green and lightly soiled Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Seller Inventory # 96261
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: The Mill Bookshop, Gatehouse of Fleet, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pubisher - Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1939. 1st ed. Edited by Herbert Davis. Very good condition, green boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges green. B/w frontispiece portrait of Swift. Nine further illustrations, also facsimiles of original title pages. 311pp. A little spotting to page edges. Unclipped jacket very good with mild shelf wear. Seller Inventory # ABE-1625398089605
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australia
Boards. Davis, Herbert (Ed.) (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, octavo, pp.xl, 311, incl Index, half-title vignette, b&w fronts. port., and plates, ex-lib with remains of sticker and pocket to ffep and white ink number lower spine, otherwise clean, orig bds., rubbed, spine faded, uncut, good condn. With the reproduced frontispiece from the 1710 edition. A Tale of a Tub was the first major work by Jonathan Swift published anonymously in 1704. Included are 'Battle of the Books' and the 'Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit'. Swift also wrote: An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). Seller Inventory # 95781
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Seller: The Bookseller, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 16 volume set. Volume V is first edition, the others reprints. Frontispieces and facsimile pages in most volumes. Sellotape marks to the free end papers from an old covering for the jackets. A little shelf wear to green cloth hardcovers. Volume 10 has an owner signature on front end paper. All have dust jackets except volume 1. A complete set, including the Index and the two volumes of"Journal to Stella" published subsequently. Seller Inventory # 065995
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