Lemuel gulliver pseudonym (2 Ergebnisse)

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. Includes illustrations. Unpaginated [36 pages. ] Cover title 50 and one Jests of Goha. From Wikipedia: "William Alfred "Bill" Eddy, Ph.D., Col., USMC (March 9, 1896 May 3, 1962) was a U.S. minister to Saudi Arabia (1944 1946), university professor and college president (1936 42), and United States Marine Corps officer serving in World War I and World War II, and U.S. intelligence officer. After serving in World War I, Eddy had an academic career as a literary scholar and professor of English, at Dartmouth College and the American University in Cairo. He was later president of both Hobart College and William Smith College (1936 42). Dr. Eddy returned to military service just before the start of World War II, serving as an intelligence officer. From 1943 to 1945, he was the U.S. Minister to Saudi Arabia, a consultant for the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) and an instrumental figure in the development of the United States' relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. He was a key figure in the formation of the CIA. In 2008 Arabian Knight: Colonel Bill Eddy USMC and the Rise of American Power in the Middle East, the first biography on Bill Eddy, was published by Selwa Press. It is written by the Middle East specialist, author and Washington Post journalist Thomas Lippman. Wiliam Alfred Eddy was born in 1896 in the city of Sidon, at the time a part of Syria, now in Lebanon. His parents, William King Eddy and Elizabeth Mills (Nelson) Eddy, were Presbyterian missionaries from the United States. Eddy grew up speaking both English at home and in school and Arabic on the streets with his friends. He stayed in the Middle East until high school and then went to the College of Wooster for his college preparatory education. His overseas upbringing and firsthand knowledge of Arabic and Arab culture would play a pivotal role in his life and in American Saudi relations. Following his graduation from Princeton University in 1917 and marriage to Mary Garvin, Eddy was accepted into the United States Marine Corps on June 6, 1917 as a "temporary second lieutenant" and was a part of the first American Marines fighting in Europe in World War I, serving as an intelligence officer with the 6th Marine Regiment. During the war he fought alongside other U.S. Marines in the German Offensive of 1918 and in the Battle of Belleau Wood against German Empire troops that same year. The battle is seen as an important success for allied forces against the Germans. Eddy was seriously injured at Belleau Wood, losing one leg because of his wounds, and was sent back to the U.S. to recuperate. For his actions as a combat Marine in World War I, he received the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, two Silver Stars, and two Purple Hearts. After his military service, Eddy taught at Peekskill Military Academy in New York. In 1922, he received his doctorate from Princeton University. His dissertation was on Gulliver's Travels. In 1923, he was appointed as the chair of the English Department at the American University in Cairo in Egypt. His wife and children found life in Egypt difficult, however, and Eddy returned to the U.S. in 1928 to accept a teaching position at Dartmouth College. In 1936, he became president of Hobart College in upstate New York. With the threat of another World War looming, Eddy returned to active duty in the United States Marine Corps at the rank of lieutenant colonel and in 1941 became the Naval Attaché and Naval Attaché for Air in Cairo. He would work with both Naval intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for the duration of the war. Early in the war, Eddy suggested that the United States try to become closer to Saudi Arabia because of its strategic importance and because of the country's relative independence and internal stability. In December 1941, Eddy was redeployed as Naval Attaché to Tangier, Morocco in order to try to help secure areas of North Africa under threat by the Ge. Sullivan, Amir Ray Abdul Bulbul (illustrator).…

Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Second edition, also referred to as the second printing of the first edition, in two volumes. Both volumes conform to Teerink's 'AA' edition, with frontispiece portrait in second state, apart from one point: Volume II title page conforms to "A" edition, without "Second Edition." The rest of the volume is "AA" with parts individually paginated and misprints in place. xii, 148, [vi], 164; [vi], 154, [viii], 199 pp. Numbers of pp. 62 and 63 in fourth part switched; text unaffected. Laid paper, complete with 7 plates including frontis. Cambridge binding in full morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, each board identical with a floral pattern to the central panel. All edges gilt. Fine condition with no sunning and very little wear to covers. Offsetting from turn-ins to free endpapers, previous owner name to fly-leaf of first volume. Contents have very minimal foxing and toning. Tiny bookworm hole near lower page edge through first half of Volume II, professionally repaired tear to upper corner of pages 137/8 in same. One of the most famous novels in the Western canon. The Anglo-Irish priest Jonathan Swift published under various pseudonyms, Lemuel Gulliver being the chosen name for this novel, which purports to be a memoir of Gulliver's encounters with fantastical people in distant lands. The satire of British society was an instant success; some disparaged the book and many praised it, but everyone read it. The first printing sold out in a week and two more editions were published the same year. Those first three editions, almost identical, have been designated by the bibliographer Herman Teerink as A, AA, and B. Keen to preserve his anonymity, Swift dealt with his London publisher Benjamin Motte via post and intermediary. He did not read the proofs and complained afterward that his text had been mangled, and Motte's "Second Edition" (actually his fourth) of 1727 included some hundred minor revisions, marking the first significant change to the text. Mistakes there may have been, but there is no doubt that Motte's Gulliver's Travels was a handsome publication, well ornamented with decorative head- and tail-pieces. The maps were taken (with some confusion as to scale) from the work of Herman Moll, a leading cartographer of the day and a man mentioned by name in the novel. This copy is suitably housed in a stunning binding signed by Bumpus of Oxford St, a London department store known for the quality bindings of its books. The actual work was done by leading binderies like Riviere & Son and Sangorski & Sutcliffe; it is unknown which firm took on this commission. A beautiful set. Teerink 290, Printing and the Mind of Man 185.…