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Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An undated, probable first Everyman's Library edition (1909) offering satirical essays on a variety of subjects by Ireland's Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), probably best known for his "Gulliver's Travels." Besides the title essays, this collection includes his "The History of Martin," "A Project for the Universal Benefit of Mankind" and several others. Includes an introduction by Lewis Melville. Everyman's Library catalog no. 347, in their Essays and Belles Lettres series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In flatback binding style 1, full ribbed orange cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With small tears along rear joint and small spot of dark soiling to front cover, else a tightly-bound, unmarked, clean copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xx, 325 pages
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. E.P. Dutton, 1909.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Blue cloth binding with wolf lettering
Seller: Basin Book Trader, Klamath Falls, OR, U.S.A.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. E.P. Dutton, 1909.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: red cloth, gilt decorated binding. faded spine and lightly faded cover edges. very light cover edge wear. front endpages lightly foxed/discolored.
Seller: Peasant Birch Booksellers, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: xv, 291 pp, 12 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham; octavo, pale blue cloth with gilt title and ornaments, tip edge gilt. Dent published another Rackham-illustrated edition of this title in 1900 in their "Temple Classics for Young People" series. That edition had 1 color plate and 11 monochrome plates and the book was in a smaller format. NB: Previous owner John Hopkins Janny (1913-1945) was a Commander on the USS Indianapolis when it was torpedoed in 1945 by a Japanese submarine. The ship sank in only 12 minutes and of the nearly 1200 crew members only 316 survived. Those rescued endured 4 days in the open ocean, most without life boats. The Indianapolis disaster remains the Navy's worst loss of life from a single ship in its history. Commander Janney was not among the survivors. RIP. A well read copy with moderate rubbing and faint stains to covers, child's ownership note to front fixed endpaper (Johns Hopkins Janney) and signature to back of half-title page, free endpapers darkened, short tear to frontispiece tissue guard
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is in good condition. There is a signature in the front, rear and written on the bottom edge of the book.The gilt lettering and decoration on the front cover is bright. The spine is somewhat dulled. There is some yellowing to the endpapers, but the rest of the book is free of foxing. This book contains all 12 of Rackham's original prints. A rare copy of Swift's classic tale.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in gilt green cloth, some minor soiling.
Seller: The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is in good condition. There is a bookplate in the front, and no signatures or markings of any other kind. The corner of the front endpaper has been cut out, shown above. The gilt lettering and decoration on the front cover is bright. There is some yellowing to the endpapers, but the rest of the book is free of foxing. This book contains all 12 of Rackham's original prints. A rare copy of Swift's classic tale.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: RACKHAM, Arthur & SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. J. M. Dent, London; New York, E .P. Dutton, 1909. FIRST EDITION (230 x 170 mm), pp. . With 12 color illustrations and many black and white drawings embellishing the text all present. Pictorial endpapers. Blue cloth cover with gilt design featuring Gulliver and title. Spine embossed with faded gilt. Mild staining on flyleaves but internally NEAR FINE. MB217
Seller: Mobilis Books, Geneva, FL, U.S.A.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels. J.M. Dent & Co; E.P. Dutton, London, 1909.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Arthur Rackham's beautifully illustrated edition of Jonathan Swift's classic novel. The first edition thus of this work. Being the first trade edition of Rackham's illustrated edition of Swift's novel, in a blue variant of the publisher's cloth.A lovely edition of Jonathan Swift's satirical and fantastical 1726 novel.Illustrated with twelve colour plates - alongside further monochrome illustrations - by Golden Age of Book Illustration figure Arthur Rackham. Collated, complete.Rebacked, with original boards restored and a small portion of the original back strip laid down. Retaining the original endpapers. Rebacked, with the publisher's original cloth boards restored, and a small portion of the back strip laid down. Discolouration to back strip and board perimeters. Retaining the original endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. 8vo. 1909. Very Good. Original navy blue cloth with elaborate gilt illustrations and titles on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 12 full-page color illustrations including frontis by Arthur Rackham. Very minor edge and corner wear. Some offsetting to endpapers. Previous owner's name and address on front pastedown. 291pp.
Seller: Doc O'Connor, Ft. Wright, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 291pp. Large octavo [23.5 cm] Pale gray cloth over boards, with elaborate gilt stamping. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. The extremities are gently bumped, and the spine is a bit rolled. The free endpapers are heavily darkened, and the rear free endpaper is adhered to the rear flyleaf along the inside margin. The recto of the frontispiece is foxed, and the versos of the plates are lightly foxed. There is a bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. A lovely binding. With twelve color plates, all present, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. From the Publisher's Note- "The Publishers make no apology for a new edition of this 'evergreen' book. They feel that the fine drawings of Mr. Arthur Rackham are a sufficient raison d'etre for their appearance in this new form. Most of the designs appeared as line drawings in an edition issued by the present publishers in 1899, but they have since been worked over, revised, and coloured by the artist, while some entirely new designs have been added. The edition is designed virginibus puerisque. J. M. Dent & Co."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$238.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Trade edition, Variant colour cloth, VG+, 12 pls, & illustrations within text by Rackham. In the publishers pale blue, gilt tooled cloth, corners rubbed. No wrapper. Spine, gilt tooling & titles, edges bumped. Internally, half title, tissue guarded frontis, [4], (v-xv), [1], [1], 2- 291 pp, 12 pls (coloured), numerous other illustrations within text, including 2 full page, lower board edge bumped, a couple of small marks to coves, pictorial endpapers brown on white, t.e.g, remainder blued, no inscriptions, some offsetting to fep, occasional light spot, printed by the Temple Press, Letchworth. A reprint of the 1900 Edition with enlarged pages and added illustrations. (160*230 mm). (Riall p 91). The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, a land of people six inches high; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; Glubbdubdrib, an island of sorcerers; and a land where horses are masters of human-like creatures. Rackham, painter and illustrator. see ODNB.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$331.47 + shipping
Description: Legatura editoriale in piena tela con figure, e titoli impressi in oro al ds. e al piatto anteriore. Tagli colorati, il superiore dorato. Ds. sbiadito, peraltro esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. Hudson, p. 168. 8vo (cm. 23,5), XV-291(1) pp. Con num.se ill.ni in nero n.t. e 12 tavv. a colori f.t. (di cui una in antiporta).
Seller: Libreria Ex Libris ALAI-ILAB/LILA member, Roma, Italy
SWIFT Jonathan -. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.. , 1909.
Price: US$331.47 + shipping
Description: London-New York, J.M. Dent / E.P. Dutton, 1909, 8° bella legatura editoriale in tela rossa ricca di ornamenti e titoli dorati, taglio superiore dorato, pp. XV-291 con numerose illustrazioni in nero nel testo e 12 tavole a colori (compresa l'antiporta) fuori testo, tutte di Arthur Rackham. Lieve usura delle cuffie, dorso un po' sbiadito dal sole, nota di possesso al contropiatto, ma volume completo e ben conservato.
Seller: Libreria Piani, Monte San Pietro, BO, Italy
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: xv, 291 pp., Red, gilt decorated cloth, with printed dustjacket and top edge gilt. Jacket is marked and edgeworn with loss to the edges and splits to the hinges, 12 cm and 6cm. The front flap is loose. Boards are fresh and bright. Internally clean and bright, with an owners name to the front endpaper. Ilustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham with black and white textual illustrations and 12 colour plates, complete. Large 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels. E. P. Dutton, New York, 1909.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An excellent copy of the first US trade edition. Original rust colored cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on the front board and spine. Top-edge stained brown. Illustrated with 12 full page color plates, 2 full page black and white illustrations and 7 chapter headings and tail-pieces by Arthur Rackham. "Gulliver's Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame.All those who had been fascinated by the realism and vivid detail of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe were captivated again, even though they knew that Gulliver must be fiction. The brilliance and thoroughness with which his logic and invention work out the piquancies of scale involved by the giant human among the Lilliputians, and then by a minikin Gulliver among the Brobdingnagians, ran away with the author's original intention. Gulliver's Travels has achieved the final apotheosis of a satirical fable, but it has also become a tale for children. For every edition designed for the reader with an eye to the historical background, twenty have appeared, abridged or adapted, for readers who care nothing for the satire and enjoy it as a first-class story" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Here, the narrative is brought to life with Rackham's exceptional illustrations, which highlight the humor as well as the darkness twisting through Swift's work. Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$756.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, following UK limited and trade editions. Near fine in good jacket. Jacket spine toned, 1/2 inch open tears to jacket spine corners, faint stain to bottom of jacket fore edge. Boards and interior clean and bright. 1909 Hard Cover. xv, 291 pp. Green cloth, elaborate gilt decorations by H.C. 12 color plates, decorated endpapers, and in-line illustrations by Arthur Rackham. An attractive edition of Swift's satirical masterpiece. Rackham's illustrations were revised, with color added, from the 1899 J.M. Dent edition.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1133.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 362 of 750 copies printed of this large paper edition, signed on the limitation page by the illustrator. 4to, 295 x 215 mm, 11½ x 8½ inches, white buckram, gilt lettered and decorated on upper cover and spine, gilt illustrated marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut, red silk ties, 291 pages. 13 splendid mounted colour plates with printed captions, 34 black and white illustrations including two full-page. All complete including the single tissue guard to the frontispiece. Spine slightly darkened, silk ties a bit faded, neat owner's name in the "This book belongs to" box on the endpaper, foxing to tissue guard to frontispiece. There are also occasional small fox marks to the deckle edges of a few of the pages, not on the pages themselves (see images) - otherwise the pages are very clean and fresh. There is an extra coloured plate in this edition not in the trade edition, it is the last plate in the book page 256, 'The Yahoos' as stated on the publisher's tipped-in printed Notice which is still present.
Seller: The Bookmonger, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Rackham, Arthur) illustrator. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift; with coloured illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: J M Dent & Co.; New York: E P Dutton & Co, 1909. FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION THUS [E P DUTTON stamped to base of spine]. 8vo - 9-3/16" x 6-1/4". Dark blue cloth covered boards with lettering and elaborate decoration stamped in gold to front cover and spine with minor dulling to the gold around the edges of the front cover with no other rubbing or wear at all for what is a beautiful copy of the book. Original publisher's gray paper priced ($2.00) dust jacket with lettering and decoration printed in black to front panel and lettering printed in black to spine with very minor wear at the flap fold corners and one upper spine panel corner, minor darkening to the spine panel and a few small dark spots to back panel for what is a beautiful example of the rare original dust jacket. Top edge tinted blue. Pictorial endpapers by Rackham printed in brown with discoloration and offsetting. 291 pp. Jonathan Swift's timeless tale of an Englishman's voyages that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, a land of people six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; Glubbdubdrib, an island of sorcerers; and a land where horses are masters of human-like creatures. Illustrated by Rackham with 12 full color plates, two full page illustrations in black and white, and seven chapter headings and tail-pieces. The condition of both the book and the dust jacket is NEAR FINE. SCARCE in such nice condition; especially so in the original dust jacket that is in such nice condition.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels. J.M. Dent & Co. and E.P. Dutton & Co, London & New York, 1909.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Arthur Rackham. Large Paper Edition. Leather Bound. H: 11", D: 8 1/4", W: 2 1/4" 1 Volume. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Large Paper Edition. Bound in full navy morocco with ornate gilt-tooled depictions on the cover and raised band spine. All of the edges are gilt with marbled endpapers. Signed by the artist. This edition is limited to 750 copies, this being no. 419. Colored illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London & New York: J.M. Dent & Co. and E.P. Dutton & Co., 1909.
Seller: Imperial Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7085.45 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 402 of 750 copies signed by the artist, this copy with an original ink drawing on the half-title, signed and dated "Arthur Rackham 7 May, 1931". The drawing measures approximately 150 x 85 mm and shows Gulliver in Lilliput with two Lilliputians mounted on horses at his feet. Rackham first illustrated Swift's satire in 1900 (published with a colour frontispiece and 11 black and white drawings). Rackham reworked the drawings for a new edition in 1909, adding colour. The signed limited edition included an additional colour plate, "The Lilliputian tailors measure Gulliver for a new suit of clothes", not included in the trade edition. The signed limited edition was published by Dent in the UK and Dutton in the US. This copy carries the Dutton imprint on the spine although the Dent device is present on the front cover. Copies of the American binding with an original ink drawing are rare. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 32-33; Riall, p. 91. Quarto. Original white cloth, lettering on spine and front cover in gilt, publisher's device on front cover in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, illustrated endpapers in gilt, original dark red ties. Housed in a custom folding black cloth box with paper spine. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on white paper, with tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Ownership signature to front pastedown. Some very light finger-soiling to binding but remarkably bright, some minor foxing and light browning, minor damp-staining to lower edge; a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom