Price: US$33.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later half navy calf, spine gilt. A few light ink annotations to title page ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Haymes & Co. Bookdealers, Kingscliff, NSW, Australia
Defoe, Daniel. Captain Singleton. Oxford: Thomas Tegg, 1840.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Oxford: Thomas Tegg, 1840. Good/No Jacket. This is volume III of the Novels and Miscellaneous Works, but complete in itself. Book in good condition in a half-leather red binding, cloth to boards. With some wear and rubbing, especially to corners and head and tail of spine. Boards holding firm with no splitting to joints. Internally clean, bookplates to front endpapers, endpapers to front inner hinge just starting, binding is tight. 345 pages.
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 373 pages. No dustjacket. Half of the spine covering is missing and the spine looks shabby. Impressed blind decoration to both dark brown boards. Wear to boards' corners. Inner hinge has paper cracks and front board has play. Page-edges browned o/w pages clean and tidy.
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original dark brown blind decorated cloth lettered in gold on spine and stating "TEGG.LONDON" at base. Fairly clean tight text but some ownership marks at start of book and minor cover wear.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: 20 volumes. Frontis portrait (vol. 2), 7 x 4.5, embossed brown cloth, vp, covers worn, two volumes with holes in spines, extremities bumped, spine ends chipped and torn, unevenly sunned, contents toned but still a nice, usable set. With errata slip tipped in vol 1 mentioning unfinished portrait of De Foe and the original Preface to Robinson Crusoe to appear in volume 2.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: 20 volumes complete, octavo 7 x 4 1/2 inches- very handsomely leather bound in a half red calf by Riviere. Spines with raised bands and floral gilt tooling in compartments, red buckram boards and top edges gilt. Volume one illustrated with an engraved portrait. A attractive set bound by a leading binder - in excellent condition. With the red leather bookplate of W. A. Foyle. Daniel Defoe was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, first published in 1719.
Seller: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, cirencester, United Kingdom
Price: US$3528.98 + shipping
Description: A handsomely bound set of the works which greatly influenced the development of both fiction and journalism in the English language. Including classic novels such as Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722), as well as histories of ghosts, magic, the great plague, and the devil, the set is a splendid testament to the writer's celebrated versatility. 20 volumes, octavo (162 x 98 mm). Mid-20th-century burgundy straight-grain calf by Morrell, red and green spine labels, gilt-ruled compartments with central floral device, French fillet on covers in gilt, beaded gilt roll on board edges, floral gilt roll on turn-ins, green endpapers, edges gilt, brown silk bookmarkers. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, with tissue guard, in first volume. Calling card in first volume inscribed "The first of the great English journalists. From Deborah". Spines sunned to pale brown, couple of corners bumped, occasional spots to contents but largely clean. A near-fine set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3528.98 + shipping
Description: Half titles. Contemp. half blue calf by Birdsall. t.e.g. A nice set.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom