THE SKULL OF SWIFT: An Extempore Exhumation.
by [Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745] Leslie, Shane
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in tan boards with paper label on spine (front flap only of dj laid in)
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About This Item
Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, (1928). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in tan boards with paper label on spine (front flap only of dj laid in) . First US printing. In reviewing this book, T. S. Eliot commented "The book is very readable, confused and confusing - The exhumation is really a romantic biography; the skull is a mere figurehead. The first chapter contains a reference to a phrenologist, who after examining the skull of Swift reported, 'amativeness large and wit small'; thereafter the skull slips back into its proper place. In the next chapter we are informed that the Life of Swift will never be written; and then Mr. Leslie proceeds to write it. The biography is bright, interesting, and apparently well informed; but Mr. Leslie does not bring us any further inside that mystery of Swift which he sets himself to study." Illustrated with a frontispiece of Swift and seven internal illustrations in shades of red. Index. 347 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87999
- Title
- THE SKULL OF SWIFT: An Extempore Exhumation.
- Author
- [Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745] Leslie, Shane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in tan boards with paper label on spine (front flap only of dj laid in)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill,
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis:
- Date Published
- (1928)
- Keywords
- gulliver's travels,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary biographies;
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