Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Hardcover, First Edition (306 results)

Exceedingly rare complete first edition set of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series, including the scarce first and only printing of the third book in the series. Octavo, three volumes bound in full crushed red morocco by Francis Bedford with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The set consists...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Leech (illustrator). 1st Edition. Set of three Daniel Defoe Editions of Robinson Crusoe:  Exceptionally rare set comprising all three books in the Robinson Crusoe series. A very good set in very good condition. All volumes are rebacked in calf with Vol 1 and 2 having raised bands on the spine. The contents are in very good condition with a scattering of brownings and light markings. Covers are lightly rubbed and corners/edges a little worn. Bindings...

Rare complete set of early editions of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a stated second edition. Small octavo, three volumes bound in full period paneled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, ornamental blind stamping to the front and rear panels, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe in Vol. I, folding engraved world map...

Full Description: DEFOE, Daniel. The Life, and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for W....

Condition: Near fine. Rare early set of the realist novel that transformed English literature, with the first volume a second edition and the second volume a first edition. Based in part on the celebrated narrative of castaway Alexander Selkirk, Defoe's novel is an adventure set in the New World that describes Crusoe developing self-reliant virtues in order to survive. Crusoe has become a modern mythic figure in the West: he is a hero of economic individualism on a modern...

Full Descripton: DEFOE, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for W....

Third Edition. Third edition stated on the title page. Measures approximately 7.25" x 4.75", with 364 numbered pages. Original full calf binding, with newly rebacked spine and titling. Book is in very good condition. Moderate surface wear and chipping to the original leather boards. Textblock evenly and moderately foxed and stained. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Previous owner's writing on bottom of the title page in ink. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase...

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "The Life And Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. Lond., W. Taylor, 1719. 2 vols (Vol I: second edition; Vol II: first edition) (4), 364, (4); (8), 373, (11) pp. W. engr. front., 2 identical ti-vign., engr. fold. worldmap. 19th c. gilt lettered hcf. w. raised bands. In mod. custom made clamshell box. (Without later publ. 3rd vol., corners bumped, part of leaf B1 (vol. 1) lacking, sm. tear/remnant of tape...

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight & twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by himself. Vol I. [With:] The...

Condition: Very good plus. First edition thus. First printing of the first French edition of ROBINSONCRUSOE, one of the first ever translations of the book that has more translations than any work except the Bible. ROBINSONCRUSOE's reputation as one of the most famous books in the world began immediately after publication with the printing of French, German, and Dutch translations in 1720. This edition is prized not only as the earliest French translation, but also for its illustrations: it...

Amsterdam, Honoré et Chatelain, 1721-1720-1721. Bound in three later, uniform blue half morocco bindings with gilt spines. Light brownspotting throughout, but a nice copy, complete with all three frontispieces, three maps and 18 plates. First edition - reissue of the first volume and first issue of volumes two and three - of the first French translation of one of the most important literary works ever written. "Robinson Crusoe" marks the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre and...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing of this illustrated edition published by Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, London in 1929. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. The limited issue of only 35 copies which have been signed by Kauffer to the limitation page, this one unnumbered. Printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made paper, and bound in quarter morocco. There was also a trade edition of 500 copies unsigned on normal rag paper...

First Croatian edition. First Croatian edition. In contemporary half cloth. Panels covered with marbled paper. With 55 text illustrations. 244 p. Page 220, 235 and 243 misnumbered. Scarce, first Croatian edition of Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe. Based on the German translation by Otto Leonhard Heubner, published in Leipzig in 1857. Extremely scarce, we could trace only one copy in institutional holding worldwide, in the library of the Museumsgesellschaft Zürich. . Cover worn, bumped at corners. First flyleaf not...

London, John Stockdale, 1790. Large 8vo. (6) + (8) + (8) + 1-389pp.; V + 1-456pp. + 14 pp. advertisments. 2 engraved title-vignettes, frontispiece in both volumes and 14 engraved plates after Stothard by Medland. Most tissue guards present. 14 pp. publisher?s catalogue. Finely bound in brown morocco (Bayntun, Bath). Spine gilt in compartments. A few spots to margins, one minor hole, affecting one letter. First Stothard edition with the first appearance of George Chalmer?s biography of The Life...

Full Calf Leather. Condition: Very Good. Thomas Stothard (illustrator). First Edition Thus. FIRST EDITION thus. Two volumes. Original diced calf boards with modern rebacked calf leather spine with raised bands and gilt tooled design of a flower. Two red morocco labled with gilt lettering. Frontispieces, illustrated. This has the lengthy life of Defoe plus an elaborate list of Defoe's writings, followed by the 8 pages of publisher's catalog in Vol 2. Thomas Stothard (August 17, 1755 - April 27,...

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. 1ère édition. 2 vol. in-8 (20,7 x 12,5), demi-veau vert lierre, dos long avec titre et tomaison dorés, chainettes et frises dorées, fleurons à froid (reliure de l'époque sur brochure), faux-titre en anglais, titre, titre gravé, II pp. (préface), frontispice de Devéria, XVI pp. (Vie de Daniel de Foe), 422 pp. et faux-titre en anglais, titre gravé, titre, 474 pp., XXVIII pp. (notice et dissertation). Rare édition originale de la traduction de Petrus Borel, illustrée...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION THUS; in two volumes; leather-bound; hardcovers; octavos; English text; bound in early 20th-century full calf gilt by Sotheran; all edges gilt; two engraved title pages, one engraved author portrait, and 14 full-page engraved plates (including two frontispieces), designed by Thomas Stothard and engraved by Meland; publisher's catalogue to rear of volume 2; title-page to vol. 2: The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life,...

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. [8], 157 pages, frontispiece and 3 other plates (all present, the last plate accidentally bound in twice). Leather spine and corners, blue cloth boards. Ex-General Assembly Library New Zealand with gilt stamp on spine and front board. A nice and tasteful binding. Rare New Zealand Maori language edition. The first novel translated into Maori, also the first book in Maori with specially prepared illustrations.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good ++. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Victorian Facsimile Edition Circa 1870. A lovely Full leather Modern Binding in the 17th century style. Engraved frontis plate. Book is very good++ and in bright condition. Contents good. Pages lightly age toned. More images can be taken upon request. RefA1234.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. La Vie et les Avantures Surprenantes de Robinson Crusoe, first edition in French, coming soon after the wildly popular first edition in English published the year before. This is one volume containing parts 3 and 4. Good only condition.

HardBack. Condition: Good. No jacket. First Edition. Who lived eight twenty years all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque, Having been cast on the Shore by Shipwereck, wherein all Men perished but himself. With an account of how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself. 1st Edition, Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1790. 2 Volume Complete Set in Tree Calf Leather. Royal...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. THOMAS STOTHARD (illustrator). 1st Edition. Complete suite of 22 proofs before titles, including 2 vignettes for the 1820 edition of Defoe's Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Engraved by Charles Heath the elder (1785 - 1848) on India paper (mounted) after the original drawings by Thomas Stothard (1755 - 1834). Loose within folder consisting of drab boards, paper label and blue leather spine. 2 small holes to fore edge suggestive of ribbon ties....

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first issue with p.295 and p.212 correctly numbered, advertisements at end with 11 pages as called for, and ad for 4th edition of Adventures. Finely bound in 1/2 calf over marbled boards, a few bumps. A facsimile of the folding map has been bound in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition THUS, First Printing. Two Volumes and complete, Volume I.4 - viii, [1], Volume II - v, [1], 456. In marble, over boards and quarter bound calf, raised bands, title in morocco label to spine of both volumes. Internally clean pages. All plates present, spotting to end pages, shadow of plates and some text to opposite pages. Tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Erste Ausgabe. 442 S., 1 Blatt; 443 S., 2 Blatt. Orig.-Halbpergamentbände. Sarkowski 363. Eins von 600 im Impressum numerierten Exemplaren, die die Offizin W. Drugulin in Leipzig nach dem Vorbild des Originals druckte. Der Nachdruck erschien ohne Nennung des Insel-Verlags. Ein schönes, gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1876 Robinson Crusoe Adventures Daniel Defoe Shipwreck Illustrated FINE BINDING It is never too late to be wise. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe One of the most beautiful travel books in figures of the eighteenth century. (Gumuchian) Called the original adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe was originally published in 1719 and depicts the life of a castaway who learns to survive on an island for decades. However, while it saw substantial success with the masses,...

(8), 396; (4), 384pp. With 2 engr. frontispieces, 2 engr. titles, 48 engr. plates and numerous wood-cut text-illustrations. Contemp. dark blue polished full calf, richly gilt, a.e.g. (signed: Bibolet). First edition of this translation and with the illustrations by Louis de Sainson. - Ullrich 41,41; Adelphi 227; Brivois 153. - Some occasional brown-staining. - A very good copy in decorative bindings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1893 Robinson Crusoe 1ed Daniel Defoe Shipwreck Illustrated Theater Poetry RARE It is never too late to be wise. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe One of the most beautiful travel books in figures of the eighteenth century. (Gumuchian) Called the original adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe was originally published in 1719 and depicts the life of a castaway who learns to survive on an island for decades. However, while it saw substantial success with the...

Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition thus. First Edition with Cruikshank's illustrations and introductory verses by Bernard Barton, complete in two volumes. 8vo (173 x 105mm): [8],xvi,434,[2]; [4],406,[2]pp, with engraved steel frontispiece depicting Friday kneeling to Crusoe in each volume and 38 woodcut vignettes throughout. Original green pebbled cloth, paper labels printed in black to spines. An excellent set of this scarce edition (one label with tiny abrasion affecting Major's name, small snag to cloth covering one board), tightly...

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1876 Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Defoe Voyages Shipwreck English Cassell ART It is never too late to be wise. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe One of the most beautiful travel books in figures of the eighteenth century. (Gumuchian) Called the original adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe was originally published in 1719 and depicts the life of a castaway who learns to survive on an island for decades. However, while it saw substantial success with the...