Description: For sale is a deluxe slip-cased Hardcover edition of Tom Jones. by Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749), Random House 1964, Hardcover in a slipcase. Illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith. Book is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world. It is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as an influential English novel. The novel is highly organized despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned". Condition: Boards: Very Good. Book is straight and firmly bound, clean inside and out. Slipcase: is intact, no seam splits, but with some flaking to front and front edge. (see photos)
Price: 7.95 USD
Location: Los Angeles, California
End Time: 2024-05-08T02:54:12.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.17 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Random House
Modified Item: No
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1964
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Lawrence Beall Smith
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Slip case
Author: Henry Fielding
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Fiction, Classics, Illustrated, Literary criticsm
Character Family: Tom Jones
