Skip to content

The history of TOM JONES, a Foundling

The history of TOM JONES, a Foundling

Click for full-size.

The history of TOM JONES, a Foundling

by FIELDING, HENRY

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Very Good in Plastic/Very Good
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Item Price
$8.84
Or just $7.96 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
$50.13 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 10 to 21 days

More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

Dj is a thick cellophane with title printed in 2 colours and is slightly rubbed. Book is unread. Gilt title on spine; top edge coloured ; other edges yellowed,810pp incl Biographical Note plus 2pp ads; col frontispiece and b&w illustrations,.

Synopsis

A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature. Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, notes, glossary, and an appendix of Fielding's revisions Introduction discusses narrative tecniques and themes, the context of eighteenth-century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite revolution  

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
BOOKLOVERS PARADISE ZA (ZA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
12035
Title
The history of TOM JONES, a Foundling
Author
FIELDING, HENRY
Illustrator
Robb, Brian
Format/Binding
Red boards
Book Condition
Used - Very Good in Plastic
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Illustrated Classics
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Macdonald,
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1953
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
NOVEL, Historical Novel,
Bookseller catalogs
Classics;
Size
190x31p93mm

Terms of Sale

BOOKLOVERS PARADISE

30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Please note we require a contact number and a physical address for delivery.
You will find the LOCATION of our Bookstore on Google. ALL our books are thoroughly cleaned. All books with dust jackets/ wraps are completely covered in 50 or 75 micron High Density PolyEthylene (= "plastic" = archival acetate film), as are books without dust jackets costing more than US$20. Soft-covers and hard-covers without Dj s are covered in adhesive plastic. While we have neither insects nor dampness in our shop, you might find that the total plastic cover keeps both at bay. Covering the whole book means that the common edge-wear described by so many dealers is mostly absent in our books. Any "plastic" is easily removable, it is not adhered to the book nor to the dust jacket. We do not use sellotape nor any other tape which discolours. We restore books where necessary and describe ONLY EXCEPTIONS to a perfect state. Faults in expensive books are described in huge detail. WHEN RESTORED the majority of "faults'' are visible only with great difficulty and certainly NOT in an image. To avoid misleading you we include few images. Please be guided by the very full descriptions. If no faults are described in a cheaper book, please be guided by the Condition. RESTORATION SERVICE. We restore any book younger than 1800 making your grotty, broken old books look like beautifully-cared-for precious old books. DUST JACKETS IN FACSIMILE. We provide colour copies of any DJ in our stock. Please ask for quotes, images & descriptions. We pride ourselves that THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL BOOKSH0P:- THE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATIONS PAST; REFUGE OF ALL THE ARTS AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF TIME; AN ARMOURY OF FEARLESS TRUTH AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOUR; INCESSANT TRIUMPH OF THE RIGHT-TO-KNOW.

About the Seller

BOOKLOVERS PARADISE

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2018
Johannesburg

About BOOKLOVERS PARADISE

We started as Books of Distinction in 1995 and cater for Collectibles and rare books especially Africana and a wide range of Non-Fiction. On request, we will send you our 10 point classification for CONDITION ranging from New to "Scrap". POSTAGE : Books can vary up to hundreds of times in size and weight. We are unable to set a price for postage for every book for every destination. Our quoted postage is based on 1 kg or 2.2 lbs. The book description will notify you of wide variations from the standard in which case please expect postage charges either more or significantly less than the Standard quoted. You are DEALING with Anthony (Tony) Lightfoot, Sole Proprietor based in Northcliff, Johannesburg.

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...

This Book’s Categories

tracking-