Description: MAKES A GREAT GIFT FOR ANY FANS OF THE CLASSICS / VINTAGE ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS / DANIEL DEFOE **PLEASE READ: Thank you for taking the time to look at our listing. We truly appreciate it. We always do our BEST to give you the most accurate description of these beautiful books. If, however, you have any SPECIFIC questions about the SIZE of the book, NUMBER of pages, TYPE of leather, SMELL or FEEL of the book, PLEASE email us through EBays mail systemBEFOREyou bid, and we will be HAPPY to give you more information. We want you to be completely happy with your purchase and keep you as our customers for years to come!** DESCRIPTION: Easton Press LONG OUT OF PRINT full-leatheredition of ROBINSON CRUSOE by DANIEL DEFOE. THIS IS A VINTAGE HEIRLOOM EASTON WITH THE MOST GORGEOUS DEEP GILT IMPRESSIONS TO THE BOARDS AND SPINE withGORGEOUS VINTAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY-PRIZED EDITIONS OF THIS DEFOE MASTERPIECE.ORIGINAL UNATTACHED, BLANK BOOKPLATE IS INCLUDED. ABOUT THE BOOK:Robinson Crusoeis a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.The story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Ms a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. However, other possible sources have been put forward for the text. It is possible, for example, that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911. CONDITION: Book is in LIKE NEW condition for its age with no discernible flaws (SEE PICS FOR BETTER DETAILS).NO ATTACHED BOOKPLATES, WRITING FROM PREVIOUS OWNER, ETC. It is a BEAUTIFUL edition.
Price: 54.99 USD
Location: Otsego, Michigan
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: United States
Signed: No
Publisher: Franklin Library Folio Society Limited Editions Club Like
Subject: Vintage Leather Bound Book Classics
Year Printed: 1976
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Luxury Edition, Like Easton Press, Communism, China, Gift Edition, Collectible Edition, Monguls, Mongol Invasion, Oxford University Press
Region: North America
Author: Daniel Defoe
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Classics Action Adventure Seafaring
Character Family: Treasure Island Moby Dick Swiss Family Robinson
