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A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
by Hodgart, Matthew
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0715605089
- ISBN 13
- 9780715605080
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 1969 Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., London. Edited with Notes By Matthew Hodgart. First Edition. First printing. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. Small hardcover has beige paper-covered boards with gold spine lettering. 91 pages. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light surface wear. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped; jacket spine is lightly sunned. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. "A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms: Being the Fifth Part of the Travels into Several Remote Parts of the World By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships, wherein the Author Returns and Finds a New State of Liberal Horses and Revolting Yahoos, from an Unpublished Manuscript, edited, with notes, by Matthew Hodgart" Written in the style of Jonathan Swift.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11424
- Title
- A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
- Author
- Hodgart, Matthew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0715605089
- ISBN 13
- 9780715605080
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Fiction,Fantasy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Fantasy;
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