Defoe Daniel Text (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Undated; published ca. 1895-1900. Reprint. Small quarto bound in black cloth at spine with pictorial, paper-covered boards. Two-color plates and B&W illustrations in text. Condition: spine cloth dulled; edges of covers rubbed through; minor tear (about 3") to front inner hinge; inked gift inscription; else good. Pages: viii, 416.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mervyn Peake [Jacket design] (illustrator). First Thus. First thus - issued in the World's Classics series - No. 587. First printing of this edition, with a new introduction by Bonamy Dobrée, and dustwrapper illustration by Mervyn Peake. ***Very good in navy-blue cloth-covered boards, with a blind-stamped OUP crest on the front board and gilt titles to the spine. The boards are fox marked but otherwise clean and undamaged. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Corners sharp. Page block edges slightly darkened and foxed. Internally also very good with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. Printed on very thin India paper with some lower corner creasing to pp.237-256 but no tears. Spine tight. ***In a very good dustwrapper, with front panel illustration by Mervyn Peake. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 7s. 6d. net. The dustwrapper is complete without any creasing or tears. There is some edge wear with very slight loss at the top of the spine and tips of foldovers. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***394 pages including a seven page Introduction and a Note on the Text at the front of the book. 153 mm x 98 mm. ***'"What makes her live", says Bonamy Dobrée in his introduction to this edition of "Moll Flanders" in The world's Classics, "is Defoe's amazing genius, of a high imaginative order, for entering into the very being of the persons whose biographies he pretends to write." "Moll Flanders", he claims, "is the fountainhead of the vast flood of what we have come to call novels. There had been nothing like it before." The text used here is that of the first edition which has hitherto been very difficult to obtain; Dr. Herbert Davis contributes a note on it.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***A first printing in this edition, with a new introduction by Bonamy Dobrée, complete in its original dustwrapper, with drawing designed by Mervyn Peake. A nice quality production of this famous work of English literature. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Paperback. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. "Defoe's "Tour Through the Whole island of Great Britain", first published in three volumes in 1724-26, is an account of 13 "circuits or journies" made by the renowned author of such books as "Robinson Crusoe" and "Moll Flanders". This abridged edition is also the first illustrated version. Defoe's famous text is now complemented by contemporary paintings, sketches, and engravings of places he visited, industrial processes, activities and events he described, and people he knew. Many of these illustrations are little known, and some have never before been reproduced. Defoe's "Tour" has been the most often-quoted source for early 18th century British social and economic history. It is also a very personal book, conveying a sense of "the romance of trade" as felt by an enthusiast at a time of rapid commercial expansion. Different from earlier (largely antiquarian) descriptions of Great Britain, it is based on more first hand knowledge, is better organized, and is written in a vigorous and subtly amusing style. An introduction to this edition outlines Defoe's life, locates the "Tour" among his other works, and reveals the extent of his involvement in the life of early 18th century Britain. Notes to the text and captions to the illustrations explain contemporary technical and industrial processes and historical allusions, identify people, and provide information on buildings and places" (publisher blurb). Large format.

Condition: Good. I edizione. Sguardie illustrate e bellissime illustrazioni a colori n.t., anche a piena e doppia pagina, di A. Verpilleux. Ed. The MacMillan Co. - New York, I edizione 1931. Tela editoriale con illustrazione e titoli in tinta al piatto e al dorso. Lievi macchioline del tempo alle copertine e due piccoli taglietti restaurati al margine basso di due pagine, Paraltro pulito e freschissimo. 21,5x28,5; pp.51. Raro e in Buonissimo stato. , Molto buono (Very Good). Book.

OHLwd. m. geprägtem Rückentitel. 8°, 126 S., Abb. Einband etw. unsauber u. gebrauchsspurig, Deckel min. verzogen, Papier etw. gebräunt. EA dieser Ausgabe.

8°, 277 S., zahlr. Abb., Fronti., Kart. m. Deckelpräg., Gebrauchsspurig, Name a. Titelbl. Mit 2 Karten, illustr. v. Arno Drescher, m. Vorwort. v. Hermann Schanze u. Dr. Otto Willmann. 1100 gr. Schlagworte: Jugendliteratur, Robinsonaden.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A scarce first edition of this early Japanese translation of "Robinson Crusoe". Defoe's novel experienced great popularity in the Meiji period, and many different editions of it were published. Illustrated first editions such as this, however, are now quite difficult to find. The translator, Inoue Tsutomu, famous for writing some of the first Japanese translations of influential texts by figures like Shakespeare, Thomas More, and Jules Verne, "treated Crusoe as a fictional character, not as an actual person, but he also asserted that the novel was no mere adventure story and that it served to teach young Englishmen to overcome hardship" ("Modern Japanese thought", Wakabayashi, 1998). An early translation of the classic novel by one of the most prominent Japanese translators of the 1880s. Boards covered with paper by an ex-owner. Boards and spine a little worn, corners bumped. Washi repairs to board gutters. Browning, ex-bookseller sticker and stamps to endpapers. Discolouration and occasional small marks to text. Light pencil notes to preface. Loss to margin of one illustrated plate (not affecting illustration). Overall very good. 1 v., complete. 10, 410 p. 19.7 x 13.8 cm. Text in Japanese.

4° (32x26), 3 Bl., 239 S., 3 Bl., mit typographischen Titel, radierten iilustierten und signierten Titel und weiteren 20 signierten Radierungen, sowie jeweils einer radierten Anfangs- und Schlußvignette, brauner Oldr (Franzband) auf 5 Bünden, Deckelfiletten, kleine Eckfleurons, reiche RückenPrägung, KopfgoldSchnitt, braune Büttenvorsätze, gering berieben, Büttenrand gebräunt, insgesamt etwas angestaubt, sauberes gepflegtes Exemplar, [= Drucke des Bücherwinkels; 1], [Rodenberg 350].- mit 21 handsignierten Radierungen Druckvermerk: Der 'Robinson Crusoe' erschien als erstes Werk der 'Drucke des Bücherwinkels' im Herbst 1922 in einer Auflage von einhundert in der Presse numerierten Exemplaren mit zwanzig signierten Originalradierungen von F. Heubner, München. Exemplar Nr. 75, gedruckt für Erwin Berger Verlag, Berlin (GA 100).- * * * BTC on-chain & lightning accepted * * * due to EPR-Restrictions NO SHIPPING to Bulgaria, Danmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia and Spain * * *.