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Title:    The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; With an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author and a Life of Alexander Selkirk, By Whose Residence on the Island of Juan Fernandez the Work was Suggested
 
Author: Daniel De Foe [sic].  Edited by Peter Walker

Publisher: Philadelphia : Willis P. Hazard

Date:   Entered into copyright in 1850  

Format:  Hardcover.

Size:  24 cm. 

Pages: xxxii, 464 p. 

Description: A 19th century reprint of this classic story of Robinson Crusoe and his time spent on a desert island.  Includes six in-text engraved plates and one each on the frontispiece and the title page.  Please check shipping cost.  The book is heavy. 

Condition:   Bound in cloth-covered boards, with blind-stamped decoration on upper board and gilt spine titles and illustration on the spine.  One of the gatherings is partially  unstitched and juts out somewhat. Both hinges have some cracking but are still firm. The spine gilt is dulled to the point of being virtually illegible. There is wear to the edges and corners, with fraying at the spine ends.  Both boards are a little scuffed.   The text block edges show some soil.  Inside the pages have occasional soil, mostly to the margins.  There are a few small edge tears. 


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