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Welcome to my virtual book collection. Since collecting actual books is somewhat cost-prohibitive, I've begun to amass all of the books I would love to have if I had the means. Some are new, lots are old, all are unique or beautiful or unusual or in some other way have captured my fancy. Enjoy browsing!

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Authors and illustrators: Edgar Allan Poe ~ Jules Verne ~ Edmund Dulac ~ Kay Nielsen ~ Arthur Rackham ~ Edward Gorey ~ Charles Dickens ~ H.P. Lovecraft ~ William Hope Hodgson ~ Mark Twain ~ Lewis Carroll ~ Salvador Dali ~ George Cruikshank ~ Emily Dickinson ~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~ H.G. Wells

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Heading: (Rackham, Arthur)
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Title: Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World
Place: London
Publisher: J.M. Dent
Date: 1909

xv, 291 pp. 12 color plates by Arthur Rackham. 9x6¼, original red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Second Rackham Illustrated Edition, First Trade Issue.
The second edition with illustrations by Rackham, the first in 1900 had only a single color plate. Latimore & Haskell p. 32.