[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1795 American abridgement of Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Defoe, Daniel. THE MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES AND WONDERFUL LIFE OF ROBINSON CRUSOE... Worcester, MA: Sold at the Worcester Bookstore [printed by Isaiah Thomas]. 1795. 12mo. 144pp. With the woodcut frontispiece and 13 text woodcuts ], some half-page. Bound in early 19th century plain homespun rust cloth (probably covering the original thin wood boards). A very nice clean copy.    $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
A scarce American abridgement of ROBINSON CRUSOE. All of the early American editions have become very scarce. Evans 28552. Welch 275.34. This edition not in Rosenbach.

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