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**EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!** Gulliver's Travels; A Tale of a Tub; and The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift. New York: The Modern Library, 1931 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. Here is a GORGEOUS PRISTINE FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great pictorial dust jacket. Bound in green balloon cloth (spine #6) with Kent end papers. The book is FINE and PRISTINE!! Solid binding, bright gilt on cover and spine, perfect matching green topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text besides Retailed by Macy's stamped on title page. GORGEOUS! BOOK APPEARS UNREAD AND UNOPENED!! The beautiful pictorial dust jacket is NEAR FINE with slightest of soiling. Very clean and bright which is very rare for this title! 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 190 titles matching a 1931 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDTION!! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirizing both human nature and the 'travellers' tales' literary subgenre.