Daniel Defoe Novel (5 results)

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Larger size, 8 1/2" x 11 1/2", and better paper and printing than normal comic book. Full colour, 54 pages including the covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Pictorial DJ is covered in mylar; 393 titles listed on inside makes this Autumn, 1960; tiny numbers in ink on front flap (see scan) otherwise VG condition. BOOK: has Raspberry red cloth with black and gold lettering and trim; Binding #8; Kent Endpapers; black topstain. STORY: Published in 1719, claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. NICE CLEAN COPY.…

Treatment script, dated 1983, for an unproduced film adaptation of the classic 1719 novel. Screenwriter Ted Bafaloukos is today best remembered as the director of the 1978 Jamaican film "Rockers." Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 11/11/83, with credit for screenwriter Ted Bafaloukos. Eight leaves, with last page of text numbered 7. Carbon typescript, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, partially bound with a single staple at the top left corner.…

Vintage reference photograph taken during filming on location for the 1965 film, showing actress Kim Novak changing from behind, while a wardrobe lady shields her front from the camera crew in the background. Stamp of London Express Pictures to the verso. Based on the 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe, about an English chambermaid who rises to power in society by seducing one man after another. Novak's final film before retiring (for the most part) from the screen. Shot on location in England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. …

First Stockdale Edition. Two octavo volumes (23.5cm); three-quarter brown crushed morocco and marbled paper-covered boards bound by Tout & Sons, spines in six compartments, with five raised bands, and titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spines; marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; xii,389,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece, title page, and seven plates of illustrations (Vol.I); vi,456,[14]pp ads, with engraved frontispiece, title page, and six plates of illustrations (Vol.II). Both volumes showing modest wear to spine ends and board edges, some wear to corners, though hinges are sound. Vol.I shows some very faint foxing to text edges, pronounced dust-soil to left margin of p.238, and a repair to lower right corner of p.263. Vol.II has a small repair to margin of p.83/84, p.89/90 skilfully remargined, with some old, faint dampstaining affecting right edge of text from p.91-290, resulting in some scattered foxing; a handsome, Very Good set. An important, early edition of Defoe's classic 1719 novel the first with illustrations by Thomas Stothard (1755-1834), and the first to print George Chalmers's biography The Life of Daniel De Foe (bound at the end of Vol.II). Sabin 19285; ESTC T72291; Lowndes II, p.613. …