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Jonathan Swift
by Glendinning, Victoria
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0091791960
- ISBN 13
- 9780091791964
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Hutchinson, London, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 324 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is best known as the author of "Gulliver's Travels". In this biography, Victoria Glendinning investigates the main events and relationships of Swift's life and provides a portrait set in a tapestry of controversy and paradox. Includes a central 8 page photographic spread. In original cloth backed boards, with colour illustrated dust jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0091791960. ISBN/EAN: 9780091791964. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3669. . 9780091791964
Synopsis
Victoria Glendinning is the award-winning biographer of Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West and Rebecca West. She is also a literary critic, broadcaster, and highly acclaimed author of two novels. She lives in London, England.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3669
- Title
- Jonathan Swift
- Author
- Glendinning, Victoria
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0091791960
- ISBN 13
- 9780091791964
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, Church of ireland--Clergy--Biography, Authors, Irish--18th century--Biography, gulliver's travels Biography & Autobiography; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0091791960 EAN: 9780091791964 Glendinning, Victoria
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