The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Hardcover. 12mo. Very Good / Very Good. Item #003309
The Modern Library No. 185. Green cloth with gold titling to spine, Modern Library device to front in blind. xvi, [20], 886 p.p., [2 p.p. ads]. Illustrated B&W headpieces and end piece. Light staining to spine, bumping to spine foot. Dust jacket is price clipped, darkened at spine and edges, bumped and slightly worn at spine ends, spot of wear to head of front from removed sticker. Foxing to top edge. Bumping to corners of text block near rear. Henry Fielding's story of a foundling is now more than two hundred years old, but still has the vitality and appeal it had for its readers in the middle of the eighteenth century. A pioneer of English fiction.
Price: $30.00