Author: DEFOE, DANIEL
Title: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders ("Moll Flanders") (Modern Library #122. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1947]. Hardcover. A complete and unabridged Modern Library reprint edition of Daniel Defoe's classic, written in 1683 and first published about 1721. With preface by the author and Paul Galdone illustration of the title character on dust jacket. --- Full title: "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums...". --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises 322 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1947 (no date appears in book). ML #122.1. --- With prior owner's signature to half title, mild age-toning to leaves and small tears to cloth at head of spine, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Good-only unclipped dust jacket ($1.25) with 12 cm tear to front flap, another tape-repaired tear, chipping to extremities and with sunned spine, but otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); ix, 328, [6, ads] pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Title: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders ("Moll Flanders") (Modern Library #122. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1947]. Hardcover. A complete and unabridged Modern Library reprint edition of Daniel Defoe's classic, written in 1683 and first published about 1721. With preface by the author and Paul Galdone illustration of the title character on dust jacket. --- Full title: "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums...". --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises 322 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1947 (no date appears in book). ML #122.1. --- With prior owner's signature to half title, mild age-toning to leaves and small tears to cloth at head of spine, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Good-only unclipped dust jacket ($1.25) with 12 cm tear to front flap, another tape-repaired tear, chipping to extremities and with sunned spine, but otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); ix, 328, [6, ads] pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Price: US$ 14.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 89237
- Book number: 89237