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The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner

Title: The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner / by Daniel Defoe ; with the illustrations by Edward A. Wilson and the introduction by Ford Madox Ford.
Author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club, 1930.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Limited) (Defoe, D. Life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 1930 06-401	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

xiii, [2], 382, [5] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : col. ill., col. map; 28 cm.

Subjects

Castaways > Fiction
Survival at sea > Fiction

Note

"The text printed herein follows the first edition"--P. [xv].
Map of Crusoe's island on folded leaf.
"The list of publications of the Limited Editions Club": p. [386-387].

Binding (note)

Binding: Dark gray-green morocco, incised with map of Crusoe's island, wrapping around spine to back; shoreline highlighted in black; tooled in black. By Julie B. Stackpole (signed in pencil and dated "Nantucket 1984, Maine 1986" on recto of free back endleaf). Decorative brown leather headband on top of spine with 5 col. beads. In beige cloth solander case with dark brown leather spine label, gilt; padded brown cloth interior.

Call Number

*KP (Limited) (Defoe, D. Life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe)

LCCN

31006883

OCLC

1934053

Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Title

The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner / by Daniel Defoe ; with the illustrations by Edward A. Wilson and the introduction by Ford Madox Ford.

Imprint

New York : Limited Editions Club, 1930.

Local Note

"Fifteen hundred copies of this edition ... have been printed for members of the Limited Editions Club ... by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco"--Colophon.

Copy in *KP: No. 921; signed by Edward Wilson.

Spencer Coll. copy: No. 612; signed by Edward Wilson.

Binding

Spencer Coll. copy: Binding: Dark gray-green morocco, incised with map of Crusoe's island, wrapping around spine to back; shoreline highlighted in black; tooled in black. By Julie B. Stackpole (signed in pencil and dated "Nantucket 1984, Maine 1986" on recto of free back endleaf). Decorative brown leather headband on top of spine with 5 col. beads. In beige cloth solander case with dark brown leather spine label, gilt; padded brown cloth interior.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy: Gift of Maggy Magerstadt Rosner; with her book label.

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Added Author

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.

Wilson, Edward A. (Edward Arthur), 1886-1970. Illustrator

Limited Editions Club. Publisher

Grabhorn Press. Printer

Stackpole, Julie B. (Julie Beinecke) Binder

Rosner, Maggy Magerstadt, 1923-2011, donor.

John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection. Copy in *KP

Research Call Number

*KP (Limited) (Defoe, D. Life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe)

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1930 06-401

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