Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner

Author(s): Defoe, Daniel

Illustrator(s): Wood, Stanley L

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Good
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	The Boy's Own Paper Office
Publication Year:	0
Publication Place:	London, UK
Book ID:	007365
Catalogue(s):	Classic Literature ◇ Fiction - General

280pp; colour frontispiece, several in-text black and white illustrations. Red cloth-covered boards, black titles on front and spine. Bumped spine ends. Boards slightly discoloured around edges. Text block edges foxing. Free endpaper starting to tan. Pages have light foxing; less in middle. . Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has shelf wear, chipping to edges, small amounts of loss, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Edited and slightly abridged by C. H. Irwin. Fictional autobiography of a castaway who is shipwrecked on an island off the coast of the Americas and who spends 27 years before finally being rescued. "Robinson Crusoe - The author, Daniel Defoe, is supposed to have based his story on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk who had lived alone on the island of Juan Fernandez in the Pacific Ocean for 4 years".

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Classics Novel fiction