Gulliver's Travels
by Swift, Jonathan
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Archer City, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1909. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Arthur Rackham. Green cloth with gilt illustrations. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled, extremities bumped and rubbed. Small stamp near bottom edge of ffep. Hinges beginning to crack. Endpapers discolored.
Synopsis
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. The book became tremendously popular as soon as it was published.
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- Bookseller
- Booked Up, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 136
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan
- Illustrator
- Arthur Rackham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
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