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Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe. With Decorations by Rex Whistler.(REVIEW COPY)
by Walter De La Mare,
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
Faber, London, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Rex Whistler. Green end-papers with vignette in brown. Author's reflections on the "tale of adventure" in the 18th century, with particular emphasis on the Defoe classic; extensively annotated.."De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the quotations themselves; so that the whole emerges less as a collection of other men's writings than an expression of the thoughts aroused in the anthologists by these writings, and coloured by the mood in which he read them. These anthologies represent a new literary form invented by Mr de la Mare, which he has employed as yet another mode to express his unique vision of reality." - Lord David Cecil. Publisher's 'Review Copy' leaflet loosely inserted. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 286 pages. Fading to spine colour. Deckled outer & bottom edges (rough cut). Top edge gilt, faded. Gilt titles spine with gilt decorations to spine & front. Bumping & wear to corners. green cloth; illustrated by b/w.frontis. & other drawings.. Illustrator: Rex Whistler. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Anthologies; Eighteenth Century Literature; Adventure Stories; 18th century; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: 4849. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4849
- Title
- Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe. With Decorations by Rex Whistler.(REVIEW COPY)
- Author
- Walter De La Mare,
- Illustrator
- Rex Whistler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Literature & Literary/Eighteenth Century Literature/Essays & Literary Criticism/Adventure Stories/Anthologies/Walter De La Mare Literature & Literary; Anthologies; Eighteenth Century Literature; Adventure Stories; 18th century; Essays
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