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A Voyage to Brobdingnag Made By Lemuel Gulliver in the Year MDCII (and) A Voyage to Lilliput By Dr. Lemuel Gulliver MDCIC
by Swift, Jonathan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good +
- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Two volume set, elephant folio, 160pp, 12mo,151pp with red cloth spines, gilt text and map illustrated boards, gilt spine text, cover text in red/black. Signed by the designer Bruce Rogers, number 822 of 1500 printed. Folio vol. spine dusty otherwise binding and text clean and bright. 16mo in original glassine slt. chipped, clean and bright. Both vols in brown slipcase, slt. sunned, chipped, rubbed at edge, slt. marked.
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- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23846
- Title
- A Voyage to Brobdingnag Made By Lemuel Gulliver in the Year MDCII (and) A Voyage to Lilliput By Dr. Lemuel Gulliver MDCIC
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE; SIGNED;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
Biblio member since 2009
Garrison, New York
About Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
Booksellers for over 40 years, members of prominent trade associations (ABAA, ILAB, ANZAAB, IMCOS, ANZMS, PBFA). We are located at Garrison NY, a stone's throw from the Metro North Hudson line train, just over 1 hr. from NYC on the banks of the Hudson River. Books, maps, prints & ephemera bought & sold.
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- Folio
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- 12mo
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- First Edition
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