Gulliver's Travels
MacMillan, 1894. 1st thus. First edition thus. MacMillan 1894. Book near fine.
MacMillan, 1894. 1st thus. First edition thus. MacMillan 1894. Book near fine.
Easton, 1976. Special Edition. Hardcover. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1976. Full leather. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Fritz Eichenberg (illustrator). This collector's edition is bound in brown leather with gilt lettering and decoration. All page edges gilt; ribbon bookmark. Part of the Easton Press' "100 Greatest Books.....
The Franklin Library; Franklin Center Pennsylvania, 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a permanent satin ribbon book marker. Part of "The Collected Stories of The World's Greatest Writers" collection. Negligible wear at the corners.
The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. 1/4 leather bound with cloth covered boards, gilt detailing and a permanent satin ribbon book marker.
The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1976. Special Edition. Hardcover. Near fine special edition from The Easton Press. Part of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" series. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. Specially commissioned frontispiece and decorative end papers.
The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good limited edition from The Franklin Library. Leatherette bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker.
The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Part of "The World's Best-Loved Books" series. Bound in full leather with all edges gilt and a ribbon marker.
Benjamin Motte, 1726. Hardcover. Mixed set. Vol. I is Teerink A, p.35, line 5 "Subsidies". Vol. II is Teerink AA, second edition, parts 3 and 4. Both volumes in very good condition. Some water damage to edges of pages and paste-downs; some wear. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.
Charles Bathurst, 1742. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Ten volumes, beautifully bound in matching full leather, with gilt on the spines. In about fine condition. Comes in a large custom-made slipcase. Published in 1742 and 1743, during Swift's lifetime. Includes A Tale of a Tub and An Account of a Battle Between.....
Bathurst London (Fleet Street), 1760. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. A very early one volume edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, complete in one volume. This was issued as volume two of Swift's collected works 15 years after his death. Very good condition, but front cover is partially detached and.....
Benj. Motte, 1727. 4th Edition. Hardcover. The self-described Second Edition, but actually the fourth if you consider each of the three printings in 1726 as separate editions. This is First Thus, the first version with the Pope verses. Volume one only. There was also a volume two with a continuation.....
London: Benjamin Motte, 1731. Early. Hardcover. Two volumes, Very good in early leather , a very early printing, five years after the true first printing by the same publisher. Almost identical to the first printing, with a few minor changes. Housed in a handsome slipcase.
Motte, 1726. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. frontispiece portrait (in second state) and 6 further plates. A mixed set, with Volume One the second edition (Teerink AA) and Volume Two the third edition (Teerink B). The first three editions were once considered to be different issues of.....
Benj. Motte, 1726. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. frontispiece portrait (in second state) and 6 further plates. A mixed set, the first volume being from the Teerink AA (second) edition (with the word Captain on the title page broken after Cap and then continued on the next.....
Paris: Chez La Veuve Damonneville & Museir fils, 1762. Early French edition. hardcover. A rare early French edition of this classic, four parts in two volumes. Very good condition. 12 mo. 6 inches by 3.5 inches. complete with four full page copper engraved illustrations. All edges marbled. Contemporary publisher's original.....