Prose Works Jonathan Swift, First Edition (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A lovely fresh looking copy bound in blue cloth boards which have crisp gilt title lettering on the front bard and spine. No inscriptions and clean pages throughout, albeit very lightly toned at the page block edge . A handsome copy in all.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2nd printing (1907). Bohn's Library ed. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. GOOD copy, binding square and reasonably tight, corners bumped, edges a little rubbed, a few small stains to boards, ink name on front pastedown, some pages uncut, otherwise internally very good, tissue guard at frontis; no dust jacket. Ex libris bookplate on ffep bearing the initials M.S.T.W.

Fabric & Board. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Thus. Vol 5 of 11 Bohn's Standard Library edition. Maroon fabric on board covers with gilt titles to spine, sun bleached spine, some edge wear. 491 numbered pages including index plus 32 of adverts, bookplate to inside front cover and owners details to fep. rough cut front epage edges, unmarked. Binding tightish. Size 12.5 x 18.7 cm b/w frontispiece tissue guarded.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bohn's Standard Library. Volume 12 Bibliography Index etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Fair; firm binding; small piece removed at top of title page; a little marked to cover; no jacket. Hard Cover George Bell 1908 Biography, Essays.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Edition. Xxiii, 403 pages. With library stamps and labels. Slight wear and slight soiling to spine, cover and corners. Slight chipping to few pages. ; Ex-Library; Octavo (standard book size).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1959. First edition. xliv, 233pp., frontispiece portrait and 11 black and white illustrations including copies of title-pages. Top edge gilt. Herbert John Davis (1893-1967) was an English literary scholar and university administrator. This is the thirteenth volume of The Shakespeare Head Swift edition of the prose works of Jonathan Swift, edited by Herbert Davis. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The book is in excellent condition and the contents are tight and clean with no inscription. Many of the pages remain unseparated down the fore edge. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling and a few stains from water splashing. There is some red staining on the rear fore edge. The spine is browned and the spine ends are lightly bumped.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing in unclipped dust jacket, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, minor edge wear & tanning to jacket w/a few small holes front panel, bookplate to pastedown, else Fine (dj in mylar); 8vo; xl + 243pp indexed.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Maroon cloth on boards with gilt titles. Spine: moderately sunned; head & foot with thin bumping, light rubbing with couple of tiny cracks (not splits). Faint sunning to front boards top margin. Tiny bumping to bottom boards front & rear corners. Edges: age soiling; bottom edge with a little heavier soiling. Eps: old foxings. Frontis: illustrated drawing of Esther Johnson (Stella) from a picture in the possession of Sir F.R. Falkiner with lightly foxed tissue guard. White space on List of illustrations page with penciled notes regarding the book. Fldg letter with red waxed stamp is clean and present. Clean contents. Towards the last section of the book the guttering is slghtly split open. Binding is still VG. 507p plus 25 p of The aAlphabetical List of books in the Bohns Libraries.

Boards. Davis, Herbert (Ed.) (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, octavo, pp.xxviii, 220, incl Index, half-title vignette, b&w fronts., ex-lib with remains of sticker and pocket to ffep, stamp to rear t.p. and white ink number lower spine, otherwise clean, orig bds., bumped at spine, uncut, good condn. Jonathan Swift is well known for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No dust jacket. ; Addenda, errata, corrigenda edited by Herbert Davis and Irvin Ehrenpreis.

Boards. Davis, Herbert and Louis Landa (Eds.) (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, octavo, pp.xxx, 386, incl Index, half-title vignette, b&w fronts. port., ex-lib with remains of sticker and pocket to ffep, stamp to rear t.p. and white ink number lower spine, otherwise clean, orig bds., bumped, rubbed, spine faded, uncut, good condn. Jonathan Swift is well known for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729).

Boards. Davis, Herbert (Ed.) (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, octavo, pp.xl, 299, incl Index, half-title vignette, b&w fronts. port. and plates, tanning to eps, ex-lib with remains of sticker and pocket to ffep and white ink number lower spine, otherwise clean, orig bds., spine faded, uncut, good condn. Isaac Bickerstaff Esq was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift. He is well known for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729).

First English Edition. Owner signature. Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good plus hardcover has no dust jacket.

Boards. Davis, Herbert (Ed.) (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, octavo, pp.xl, 311, incl Index, half-title vignette, b&w fronts. port., and plates, ex-lib with remains of sticker and pocket to ffep and white ink number lower spine, otherwise clean, orig bds., rubbed, spine faded, uncut, good condn. With the reproduced frontispiece from the 1710 edition. A Tale of a Tub was the first major work by Jonathan Swift published anonymously in 1704. Included are 'Battle of the Books' and the 'Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit'. Swift also wrote: An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. All corners of flaps are slightly clipped. A few small tears and scuffs to jacket. Owner name to FEP. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Dublin, George Faulkner, 1735-1738. Eight parts in eight. 6mo (16.0 x 9.7 cm). Engraved frontispieces (including two portraits of Swift) in volumes I-IV [with portrait frontispiece and six plates or maps in volume III (Gulliver's Travels)]. Uniform contemporary full calf. Gilt-bordered panels; spines with five raised bands, gilt lines and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. Red speckled edges. = The rare, first corrected edition of Jonathan Swift's collected works, of which the first four volumes - including the complete Gulliver's Travels, with maps - were published during his life-time. The last four volumes were published immediately after Swift's death and contain several works not previously published. It replaces the near simultanously published and more common octavo edition which had several omissions and contained several mistakes, here added and corrected. All works are paginated individually. Leaf L6 in volume IV cancelled (the text and pagination are continuous). Old owner's inscription on the front endpapers, old pictorial bookplate on front flyleaf rectos, contemporary owner's signature on the title page of volume I, a few worm-holes to volume V, otherwise a very good, clean set in an attractive, uniform binding.