Description: From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. Signed by the illustrator, Alexander King. Beautifully illustrated, Number 1088 of 1500 limited edition copies. Very good shape, slight nick on the spine and Board. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is the comical history of a young man who was adopted into a rich family and faces a brother who is against him all while they grow into maturity. It is a Bildungs roman and a picaresque novel. This delightful Depression-era volume is bound in full charcoal-grey leather over flexible boards with an elaborately gilt tooled spine, yielding a deluxe leatherbound paperback housed in a red clothbound slipcase that is here in decent shape. The book itself is in beautiful condition. It is SIGNED by the illlustrator, Alexander King, on the colophon page. First Thus (In a limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies). (870 pages, with 40 illustrations by Alexander King). No international shipping.
Price: 160 USD
Location: Seattle, Washington
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Limited Editions Club New York
Subject: Comical history agriculture
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1931
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Limited Edition
Region: united states
Author: Brooks Van Wyck
Personalized: No
Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
