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Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair copy; internally very good with binding problems (spines lacking; tape repair to Vol. 1;). 8vo 435; 397+plts 2 volumes complete. Bookplate of noted author/reviewer Paul Jordan-Smith in Volume 1, his signature in Vol. II. b/w illus by Thomas Stothard.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: Two volumes in publisher's cloth-backed boards with illustrations by Thomas Stothard. Designed by Bruce Rogers. This edition (Haas 80) is a reprint of the Riverside Press Large-Paper Edition (Warde 89) in 4 volumes published the same year. Some soiling and wear to covers, still quite good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 Volumes, 8vos (8 1/8" x 5 1/2"), one-eighth brown cloth with black labels & gold lettering over tan boards, illustrated with 16 impressed B&W plates (including frontispieces) with tissue guards lithographed after Thomas Stothard, 435 + 397 pages. Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719), which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations; also for sensationalistic Moll Flanders (1722). Both novels are first-person picaresque novels. Thomas Stothard RA (1755 - 1834) was a orominent English painter, illustrator and engraver. ROBINSON CRUSOE is presented as an autobiography of the title character (perhaps based upon Alexander Selkirk) - a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. VERY GOOD CONDITION. Illustrated with Fine B&W plates after the famous engravings of Thomas Stothard. No foxinig; the faintest age-toning to pages. Textblocks are firm. Backstrip and covers are Near Fine with minimal wear. Covers have been reinforced internally with binder's tape. (The 1820 2-vol. edition with Stothard illustrations, which this volume emulates--has been offered for more than $3,000.) internally and externally! Dust jacket is of a type printed between 1944-1953 (Toledano, pp.165, 176). Number "362" on the inside of dust jacket indicates a publication date of 1952-53, indicating a very early reprint. Chips and losses to the edges of the dust jacket; internally, there is characteristic though very slight age-toning to the post-war (1946ish) paper. The typography on the back panel is appropriate for books published from 1944-1953 (Toledano, pp.165, 176). The internal dj printed number is "329," which equates to within 2 years of the 1946 First edition, hence an early reprint. Illustrated Reprint adapting Designs by Thomas Stothard.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Large Paper edition printed at Riverside Press. Four volumes, with 220, 215, 221, 176 pages. Number 21 of 180 copies, as noted at the end of volume four. A superbly readable quality production of this classic, with 16 tissue guarded plates by Thomas Stothard. One half beige cloth over dark green laid paper boards. No markings, no bookplates, near-no-toning to quality off-white paper, yet with a few roughly opened edges. Corners generally very good with bit of bumping/chipping. Some rubbing to paper labels, with a small scrape (1 cm) to label of volume one, but no effect to black text title. About 6 x 9 in (15.5 x 22.5 cm).
Seller: Classic Choice Rare Books, Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 4 of a limited edition of 180 printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Four volume set. Many pages have uncut edges. Black-and-white illustrations with tissue guards.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pub by Houghton Mifflin, 1908, "Large Paper Edition," 4 volumes, 1st Edition Thus. Stated number 41 of 180 copies printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. NOT exLib. Near-Fine or better cond. hardcovers, no dj's, as published. Green bds, 1/2 tan cloth w/ VG+ paper pastedown title blocks on spines. Deckled edges, many pages uncut. Clearly, these books have never been read. Illustrations from the designs by Stothard. 220pp, 215pp, 221pp, 176pp. All 4 vols are square, straight, tight, clean & unmarked, virtually as-new condition. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.