GULLIVER TRAVELS J. SWIFT A. RACKHAM 1st Ltd Ed 1/750 Start Price GBP 1,150.00 Current Price GBP 1,150.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, August 19, 2008 End Time Friday, August 29, 2008 Location United Kingdom See more about 'GULLIVER TRAVELS J. SWIFT A. RACKHAM 1st Ltd Ed 1/750' Description ....If Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels makes you happy -  you will certainly treasure it as a first signed limited edition with tipped-in illustrations by Arthur Rackham, the text printed on hand-made paper! ... Book: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Author: Jonathan Swift. Superbly illustrated by Arthur Rackham. One of a limited edition of 750 copies only, signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Published by J M Dent & Co., London, 1909. First edition thus with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Publisher's original cream buckram with cloth  gilt-stamped cover and spine. Red ties. Profusely illustrated with lovely black and white drawings and vignettes, with and 13 ( thirteen) tipped-in full colour plates on gild-edged cardstock, decorated end papers. The book printed on superb quality hand-made English paper, similar to thick textured Arches of Fabriano type. Large, thick, impressive quarto. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Book condition: An excellent copy. Externally VERY GOOD. The original white gilt buckram binding is slightly soiled and slightly worn, corners are minimally bumped, slight soiling to extremities of binding, spine somewhat darkened due to shelf exposure, gilt bright, top edge bright. Ties somewhat faded, soiled, worn and wrinkled, one with old mending, all four with frayed ends. Internally, NR FINE. Endpapers slightly transferred and very slightly age soiled. The endpapers have a gold design incorporating a bookplate, which is still blank for the new owner to claim! One tissue over frontis slightly spotted and wrinkled, otherwise, no marks, no spotting to pages or tissues, no tears, exceptionally bright and clean internally, all plates in fine condition. The small piece of paper from the Publisher noting that plate opposite pg.256 is not included in the trade edition is still present!  A lovely, bright, clean copy, which appears unread internally. Book is certain to please. Good luck and enjoy your win! Please go to Ebay UK to view our other listings! Enjoy, enjoy! SHIPPING:We are happy to ship worldwide and to combine shipping on multiple purchases. All of our items are carefully packaged, insured and appropriately labelled. We ship worldwide by Recorded Air Mail, DHL, FedEX and Parcelforce at cost, by method most appropriate for weight, value and date needed at destination as agreed with the high bidder. Valuable and rare items should always be shipped by trackable mail and with insurance, we trust this is agreeable. In case of small or light items, or flat artwork, combined postage usually means just the added increase on insurance for second or third item and so on, as most of the weight is the base rate. within UK Next Day: £20.00 ( in a box, well packed, insured, recorded) United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Australia, other destinations, we will ship at cost by weight/insurance value via Parcelforce 48 or by other methods stated above as agreed with the high bidder. CONDITIONS OF SALE: PAYMENT: CONDITIONS OF SALE: Payment by Paypal, GBP ££ UK checks/money orders to our London, England address, US/CDN $$ DOLLARS checks/money orders to our Toronto, Canada address. Payment to be received within fourteen days unless otherwise agreed prior to auction end. Due to the costs of shipping, all sales are final, except where an item has been incorrectly described in terms of material or quantity, i.e. plastic not leather, five teacups not six. We do our best to accurately and objectively describe the age, origin, manfacturer and attributes of every object, however this remains our informed opinion and not a guarantee. We endeavour to provide the best photographs that we can and to describe the object in detail including any faults or defects could affect value or use. Please note however that many of our items are antiques and vintages 100+/200++ years old. Please satisfy yourself as to the item prior to auction end. If you have any specific queries, feel free to email us. We are happy to answer any questions. We always pack well, insure and keep proof of shipping/tracking numbers, hence losses and breakages are exceptionally rare. We have many happy customers and we take pride in the quality of our many interesting and beautiful antique and vintage items and our service. We hope you enjoy your purchase and look forward to seeing you again! Place a Bid!