Search Results: Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress, Or, a History Of… by Daniel Defoe

London: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. Very Good. 1981. WORLD'S Classics Edition; 9108 pt line. Paperback. 4x7". VERY GOOD CONDITION solid , CLEAN, but old pr ice blaked over back cover.. ; Black titles on yellow spine strip...Attractive woman's painting portrait cover art..grey green dress.. ; 333pg pages; Includes, intro; note on text; bibliog. chronology of author. .

Paperback. Acceptable.

Limited Editions Club, 1976. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. Good. 1964, 1968. Ex LIBRARY HARDCOVER. HARDCOVER. 5x7". GOOD CONDITION solidly bound, showing several expected EX LIBRARY distinctions, Spine label sticke..Names stamped edges, Pocket removal scar..Attractive college bookplate. Not marked up otherwise clean & bright ; bright GOLD SPINE TITLES ON 1" RED title box on faded spine cloth.. ...ALL on lite green CLOTH HARD COVERS..WHITE ENDPAPERS...; 333pg pages; Includes, intro; note on text; bibliog. chronology of author. London in the year 1665....Death throes of a great city. " ..."History Of..."...Text has many of the charming original Spellings and Capitalizations of the original text. .

Limited Editions Club. Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Some cover wear. Limited: #62/1500. Signed by illustrator Bernd Kroeber. ; 256 pages .

Limited Editions Club, 1/1/1976. Hardcover. Like New. Signed. xiv, 256 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm. One of 2,000 copies, designed by Adrian Wilson, and signed by the illustrator. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. The Limited Editions Club was founded in 1929 by George Macy with the intent of publishing beautifully illustrated and designed classic literature for a relatively small number of subscribers. Much of the LEC's fame stems from its use of some of the best illustrators and artists available. Each title was uniquely designed with individualized paper and cover materials. <br><br> This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.

Avon: Limited Editions Club, 1976. Hardcover. Near fine. Bernd Kroeber. Bound in publisher's original white cloth with red cloth boards with white printed designs. Spine stamped in red and gilt. Publisher's original matching red paper slipcase and printed label on spine with some wear and splitting. Illustrated by Bernd Kroeber.One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the artist LEC monthly newsletter laid in.

London: Oxford University Press 1964. (Hardcover) 333pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt and red lettering to the spine. Bibliography, chronology, notes. The dust jacket is faded along the spine, there is a small chip to the top of the front panel, and there is a 1964 postage stamp on the front free endpaper. "Roxana, edited and introduced by Mrs. Jane Jack, is reprinted from the British Museum copy of the rare first edition of 1724. The novel, as its sub-title, the Fortunate Mistress, suggests, is an account of the vicissitudes of fortune in a woman, beautiful, ambitious, unscrupulous, to some extent the victim of circumstance, but on the other hand cunning enough to use both people and events to further her ambition". Time Period. Edited with introduction by Jane Jack. Series: Oxford English Novels. (Fiction, Women).

London : Oxford University Press, 1964. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 33 pages; xviii, 333 p. ; 21 cm. ""Based on the first edition of 1724."" Subjects: Women - Great Britain - Fiction. Great Britain - History - Charles II, 1660-1685 - Fiction. Europe - History - 17th century - Fiction.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1964. Hardback edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xviii, 333 pages ; (8ş). Subjects; Great Britain History Charles II, 1660-1685 ; Fiction. Europe History 17th century ; Fiction. Fiction in English 1702-1745 Texts. Picaresque literature. Historical fiction. Women Great Britain ; Fiction. Mistresses ; Fiction. English fiction Defoe, Daniel, 1660 or 1-1731.-Texts. Defoe, Daniel, 1660/1-1731 English literature 1700-1750. Individual works.

London : Oxford University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Gilt- blocked cloth. Very Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical descriptionxviii, 333 pages ; 21 cm."" Based on the first edition of 1724""--Page xiii.Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xvi).Subject: Mistresses Europe ; Fiction.Women Europe.Fiction. Maîtresses Europe. Romans. nouvelles.Femmes Europe .Romans. Women. Women Great Britain Fiction.Women Europe. Mistresses Fiction.Picaresque literature. Historical fiction. English fiction Defoe, Daniel,,1660-1731.Texts.Defoe, Daniel, 1660-1731 English literature 1700-1750 Individual works.English literature 18th century.Women Great Britain ; Fiction. Women Europe ; Fiction. Mistresses ; Fiction. Europe. Great Britain History Charles II, 1660-1685 ; Fiction.Europe History 17th century ; Fiction. Fiction in English 1702-1745 TextsJack, Jane [editor]. Adventure stories.… Read More

London, Oxford University Press, 1964. Very Good. 8° , Leinen. edited with an Introduction by Jane Jack : Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand. Ausgetragenes Bibliotheksexemplar, Schilfgrüner Leineneinband mit ziegelrotem Rückenschild, Titelprägung und Buchschmuck in Gold, Einband leicht berieben, Kapitale leicht berieben, Ecken leicht berieben, Papier in sehr gutem Zustand.

Avon, Conn: Limited Editions Club, 1976. Fine in a Fair slipcase. #293 of 2, 000 copies printed. Bound with white cloth spine and red cloth boards. White design on the boards. Gilt title on spine. Red on the top edges. All illustrations are cut into wood. Most are black and white, but some include color. Slipcase is red paper that has been repaired with clear tape. This book includes the monthly letter of the limited editions club. June 1976, Number 498 which discusses Roxana. Signed by illustrator on the last printed page. . Signed by Illustrator. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Kroeber, Bernd.

London: printed for T. Warner; W. Meadows; W. Pepper; S. Harding and T. Edlin,, 1724. Roxana, one of the strongest and most important women characters in the history of literature Very rare first edition of Defoe's proto-feminist novel Roxana. ESTC lists just three copies in UK institutions; only two copies have appeared at auction in the past 44 years. In Roxana and his earlier Moll Flanders, "indisputably Defoe has created two of the strongest and most important women characters in the history of literature" (ODNB). In its sympathetic portrayal of Roxana's destitution at the hands of her husband, the present work is "an important milestone, one that invited the reader not to judge the heroine for being a prostitute, but to accept that her circumstances gave her no alternative" (Rendell). It is also "the closest Defoe comes to producing what deserves to be called a novel in very nearly the full, formal sense of the term, since his narrator/heroine confronts with unsparing clarity the contradictions… Read More