Colum padraic editor swift (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Delightful Edition of Swifts classic adventure tales of Voyages to Lillipt, Brobdingnag, Laputa and Japan and the Country of the Houyhnhnms, the wonderfully superior Horses. Beautifully illustrated by Willy Pagany. Full-Page Colour Frontis illus. of Gulliver in Lilliput. 11 further Full-Page Colour plates printed on smooth white paper (12 Colour Plates in total). Many B&W Illustrations throughout. Light Blue cloth cover with large Black illus. of Gulliver bending down to fleeing Lilliputians on front, Black title above. Gilt Lettering on spine. Half title page illus. Gulliver on Lilliputian ship. Title page illutrated with large vignette of Gulliver holding a tiny Lilliputian. XIX / 19 Preliminary pages, mostly an Introduction by Padraic Colum. Main Text 296 pages + the Plates. 8 1/4" Tall. Slight tanning to cloth. Small bump on fore edge. Gift inscription dated 1941 and small bookseller notes on ffep. No other insciptions.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Covers are rubbed with light edge wear. 12 colour plates. Willy Pogany (illustratore).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1931 printing. Stated at copyright page: "First published October 1919 by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. Reprinted July 1922; January 1931". Sienna brown full cloth pictorial boards, black and orange cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear. Depicts Gulliver trying to catch little Liliputians. Pages very good, clean. Profusely illustrated throughout including four beautiful color plates by Willy Pogany. Decorative headers, tailpieces, and vignettes by Pogany. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Near very good early original issue. A classic, savage satire of mankind and beloved by children for its imaginative fantasy. Gulliver's Travels or, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships" is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. This satire finds shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver as he encounters the petty, tiny Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos, all of whom give him new insights into human behavior. Printed in Great Britain by Jarrold & Sons, Ltd., Norwich. 296 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Pogany, Willy (illustratore). Book. …

Condizione: Poor. Some scuffing to the jacket edges. Dated to the inside page, the textblock edge is a little foxed. Fine to read and use throughout, a decent enough copy.