Gullivers Travels into several Remote Nations of the World
by Swift, Dean
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(London: Warne: no date) A New Edition, Revised for General Use. Pictorial cloth, partly gilt, bevelled boards (that is, hard covers) pp. iv, 188. With Illustrations, i.e. drawn by H.K. Browne (Phiz) and engraved by J. Cooper (see Advertisement by the Editor before the Contents page). The unnamed Editor declares his hope that through his abridgments and editing he has succeeded in providing what has hitherto been an acknowledged desideratum an edition of GULLIVERS TRAVELS adapted for the reading of ALL. Warnes Birthday Library series. All edges gilt. An owners name snipped from the head of the title-page, but without affecting the print; a later owners name at head of front free endpaper; a short word (To?) in ink on front fixed endpaper blotted out; head and foot of spine rubbed and a little worn; internally, some scattered stains; overall a very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 146153
- Title
- Gulliver’s Travels into several Remote Nations of the World
- Author
- Swift, Dean
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- childrens
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About the Seller
exPB
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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