The Swiss Family Robinson
Wyss, Johann David
From BOOKBARROW (PBFA member), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 23 January 2006
From BOOKBARROW (PBFA member), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 23 January 2006
About this Item
Bound in patterned beige cloth showing alternate images in red and green of boat and shack below palm tree; this edition has a colour frontis., 7 colour plates, b/w. drawings & colour illustrated end-papers all by Mervyn Peake. The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel by Johann David Wyss, written to entertain his four sons & first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Top edge green. Gilt titles on green panel spine. Illustrator: Mervyn Peake. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Children's Fiction; Childrens; Adventure; Fiction. Inventory No: 4582. Member of the P.B.F.A. Seller Inventory # 4582
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Swiss Family Robinson
Publisher: Heirloom Library, London No date circa 1950
Publication Date: 1950
Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Illustrator: Mervyn Peake
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: First Thus.
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