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2:00 AM PT - May 15th, 2008

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Swift.Directions to Servants,GCock,1923

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Swift (Jonathan) Directions to Servants,
one of 380 copies, printed in green and black, wood-engraved title-vignette and illustrations by John Nash, 1925; Selected Essays, vol.1 [all published], one of 450 [actually 190] copies, printed in turquoise and black, wood-engraved title-vignette and illustrations by John Farleigh, 1925, both printed in double-column, uniform original parchment-backed marbled boards, uncut, slightly rubbed and soiled, [Chanticleer 23 & 27], 4to, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press(2)

***The Selected Essays was intended to be published in 2 volumes but more than half the edition of vol.1 was destroyed in an accident so the production was abandoned..


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