The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984. Leather bound. Evergreen leather/boards with gilt decoration all around. Gilt lettering and four raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers with matching, sewn-in satin place-holder ribbon. No dust jacket, as issued. 369 pp., illustrated with 18th-century engravings. Fine. Clean, tight, unread copy. Pristine but for light fading to very edges of moire end papers, common in these editions. Item #161636
Limited Edition published for the subscribers to The Collector's Library of The World's Best-Loved Books. The story begins with the universal quest: the young man in Britain, torn between his safe home and his hunger for adventure, breaks away from his loving father and sails away into the unknown. After a series of harrowing escapes, he's shipwrecked on a desert island. His lively first-person account shows how his intelligence and education help him survive for many years, and how he uses technology, including guns and tools salvaged from the ship.
OCLC: 11814342
Price: $100.00