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Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by SWIFT, Jonathan

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Title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
Author: SWIFT, Jonathan
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. Full Description: [SWIFT, Jonathan]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. First edition, Mixed issue. Volume I is Teerink AA, and Volume II is Teerink B. Four parts in two octavo volumes (7 9/16 x 4 11/16 inches; 192 x 120). xii, 148; [6], 164; [6], 154; [8], [155]-353, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state (the first state, usually only seen in large paper copies), with the inscription "Captain Lemuel Gulliver of Redriff. Ætat. suæ LVIII." around the oval the tablet bearing a Latin inscription (printed on paper with vertical chain-lines), five engraved maps (two for Part III and one for each of the other Parts), and an engraved plate of symbols in Part III. With engraved head and tail pieces, and initials. Uniformly bound in contemporary full paneled speckled calf, rebacked to style. Boards ruled in blind. Spine stamped and numbered in gilt. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edges dyed brown, other edges speckled red. A small piece missing to fore-edge margin of leaf K5 in part II, volume I, but with no loss. Previous owner's old ink neat notes to leaf S5 in Part IV, volume II. Previous owner's bookplates to front pastedown of each volumes. A handsome and complete copy of this seminal first edition. Gulliver's Travels, to use the popular title, is one of the greatest satires in the English language-or any language, for that matter. It was an immediate success, which accounts in part for its bibliographical complexity, and has been hailed as a book that "would last as long as the language, because it described the vices of man in all nations" (D.N.B.). "Gulliver's Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame...All those who had been fascinated by the realism and vivid detail of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe were captivated again, even though they knew that Gulliver must be fiction. The brilliance and thoroughness with which his logic and invention work out the picquancies of scale involved by the giant human among the Lilliputians, and then by a minikin Gulliver among the Brobdingnagians, ran away with the author's original intention. Gulliver's Travels has achieved the final apotheosis of a satirical fable, but it has also become a tale for children. For every edition designed for the reader with an eye to the historical background, twenty have appeared, abridged or adapted, for readers who care nothing for the satire and enjoy it as a first-class story" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Grolier, 100 English, 42. Printing and the Mind of Man 185. Rothschild 2108. Teerink 290, 291. HBS 69061. $8,500.

Jessica's First Prayer. By the Author of "Fern's Hollow," etc. by [ Smith, Sarah ]

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Title: Jessica's First Prayer. By the Author of "Fern's Hollow," etc.
Author: [ Smith, Sarah ]
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: London: The Religious Tract Society, [1867]. With three early reprints of the same work First edition of a work that originated the genre of 'Arab fiction' – sentimental stories about poverty stricken young persons on the streets of Victorian cities. . Publisher's blue cloth, front board stamped in gilt. . Sixteenmo. . Frontispiece, six full-page engravings, and three textual illustrations. Binding extremities lightly worn. Spine and edges of boards have minor toning. Front hinge cracked, but sound. Endpapers slightly foxed, the occasional small smudge or stain. Contemporary ink gift inscription on front flyleaf. Overall, a very good copy of a fragile work. Early reprints bound in red or green cloth and in the same format as the first with light wear and minor soiling to some boards. Very good copies. Sarah Smith's (1832-1911, pseudonym Hesba Stretton) "first story was published in 1859 by Charles Dickens…Her first children's book was Fern's Hollow, but it was with her sixth, Jessica's First Prayer, that [she] made her mark... Readers first encounter Jessica as 'a pair of very bright dark eyes fastened upon…slices of bread and butter…with a gaze as hungry as that of a mouse which has been driven by famine into a trap.' Over the course of the story, Jessica is not only rescued from poverty but becomes a Christian, her simple piety reforming other characters. Stretton, one of the founders of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, wrote out a deep commitment to raising awareness of the conditions in which children like Jessica lived.

Jailbird by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: Jailbird
Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Delacorte Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. Signed limited edition of Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut.. Octavo, xxxviii, [4], 246pp. Full black cloth, title in silver and gilt on spine. All edges gilt, yellow endpapers. Solid text block, fine condition. Housed in the publisher's matching black slipcase, facsimile signature in gilt on front panel. This is number 385 of 500 copies available for sale. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut in blue ink on the limitation page. Vonnegut's satirical Watergate-era novel follows Walter F. Starbuck, recently released from prison after serving time for a minor role in the Watergate conspiracy, and extends into a broader critique of American politics.

Luna Mesa by Harris, Trent

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Title: Luna Mesa
Author: Harris, Trent
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Salt Lake City], 2019. First edition, 1/10. [34]pp. Oblong octavo [21 cm x 28 cm] Purple boards with the title on the front board. Fine. This edition was limited to ten numbered copies, this is copy #8. Signed and numbered by Harris on the title-page. A blu-ray of Luna Mesa is included (which is also signed). This work contains 53 color reproductions of Harris' illustrated notebook pages and illustrated postcards that became the basis for his experimental film, 'Luna Mesa.' "Luna Mesa: Notebook pages created by Trent Harris in bars and hotel rooms in faraway lands. They were used as source material for Harris' abstract film, 'Luna Mesa.' Also included are postcards, ones Harris sent to himself." - Title-page. Trent Harris has directed nine feature films and scores of documentaries and experimental pieces. To date he has been honored with retrospectives at: Raindance Film Festival (London), 92 Y Tribeca (New York), BUTT Film Festival (The Netherlands), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City), Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina).

Tiutchevskii Sbornik. Stat'i o Zhizni i Tvorchestve Fedora Ivanovicha Tiutcheva [Signed/inscribed by author] by [[compiled and edited by] Lotman, Iu. M.

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Title: Tiutchevskii Sbornik. Stat'i o Zhizni i Tvorchestve Fedora Ivanovicha Tiutcheva [Signed/inscribed by author]
Author: [[compiled and edited by] Lotman, Iu. M.
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; 6" x 8 3/4"; pp. [2], 3-318, [2] including text to last page; original embossed blue boards; gilt and white title and decorations; very minor wear to corners; near fine. One of 3000 copies. Signed inscribed by Lotman to Professor Anatoly Lieberman. An authoritative compilation of articles and studies on Tiutchev's life and works, who has been known as the last of the three great Romantic poets of Russia.

Campus Sleep-In by Adirondack, Leslie

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Title: Campus Sleep-In
Author: Adirondack, Leslie
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: New York: The Olympia Press / The Traveller's Companion (TC-497). Very Good+. (c.1970). First Edition. Softcover. [a nice tight copy, light edgewear to covers, minor soiling to front cover, tiny tear at top of spine, minor soft creasing at bottom of rear cover]. (The Traveller's Companion Series) Series Mass Market PB Erotic novel with a college-campus setting, highlighting (per the cover subtitle) "The Intimate Co-ed Revolution." The rear cover reproduces a little squib from the Village Voice, noting that the plot involves a young woman who "has been sadly bouncing between frat-house letter-men in quest of her first orgasm, all to no avail [until] she falls in with the bearded Jewish leader of SDS, who gives her hormoes a taste of what the vanguard's all about." ("Leslie Adirondack" is a pseudonym if I've ever seen one, and was used for at least one other Olympia/TC book, "The Electric Sensation," published the previous year.) Not for sale to customers outside the U.S.; and due to the book's explicit sexual content, the purchaser will be required to affirm that he/she is at least 21 years of age. .

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