Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe; N.C. Wyeth [illus.]
Title: Robinson Crusoe
Publication: New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920
Description: Very Good.
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920. First Wyeth Edition. Large octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial paste-on mounted to upper cover, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers; [14],368pp.; frontispiece and twelve leaves of full-color plates. Margins moderately scuffed, gilt a bit dulled, boards bowed, rear hinge cracked, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.
"The outstanding appeal of this fascinating romance to me personally, is the remarkably sustained sensation one enjoys of Crusoe's contact with the elements--the sea and the sun, the night and the storms, the sand, rocks, vegetation and animal life" (from Wyeth's preface).
Seller ID: 27982
Subject: 18th Century, 20th Century, Children's Literature, Fiction, Illustrators
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