Gulliver's Travels; A Tale of a Tub; The Battle of the Books.
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. xiii, 550pp, (8pp ads). 3 illustrations, decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild bit of jacket edgewear, with spine age toned. Item #37967
Tight, handsome later printing of #100 in this series -- despite the "First Modern Library Edition, 1947" statement on copyright page, the dust jacket price of $2.45 applies to title published between 1965 and 1970. The title page of early London editions of each of these three titles are illustrated.
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