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Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co., 1990. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good jacket (one shallow crease). NO chips. NO tears. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. All pages are fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Illustrated with 5 maps. This is a day-by-day history of the events in Samuel Johnson's life. It is packed with fascinating details on his writings, friendships, famous "jaunts," etc. Included is a list of 248 members of Johnson's circle, with brief biographical data on his friends, acquaintances, and others who touched his life at some point. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Whether the reader needs to check a single fact or wishes to gain a sense of Johnson's life, writings and friendships over a period of months or years, this detailed chronology… Leer más

Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co., 1990. A gorgeous, pristine copy. Brand New condition in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Illustrated with 5 maps. This is a day-by-day history of the events in Samuel Johnson's life. It is packed with fascinating details on his writings, friendships, famous "jaunts," etc. Included is a list of 248 members of Johnson's circle, with brief biographical data on his friends, acquaintances, and others who touched his life at some point. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Whether the reader needs to check a single fact or wishes to gain a sense of Johnson's life, writings and friendships over a period of months or years, this… Leer más

London: Trustees of Dr. Johnson's House, 1968. 5.5" wide by 8" tall. Trade paperback. Very Good condition. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, tight, and unmarked. A guide to the house (now a museum) where Dr. Johnson lived 1748-1759, and where he compiled his famous dictionary. With a poem by Claudine Currey. Frontispiece of the house, from a drawing by W. Monk. Includes a photo of the "Dictionary Attic" showing the heavy bombing damage caused by the 1940 Nazi Blitz. . Revised edition. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps. Illus. by Cross, Helen Reid; & Daphne Macneile Dixon. (ii), 21pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (price clipped). NO chips. Two 1/4 inch closed tears. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. 1946. "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page, with NO indication of any other printing. Frontispiece is a color illustration of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Bound in the original gilt-stamped cinnamon (i.e. dark orange) cloth. [NOTE: beware of copies in blue cloth offered as first editions; they are book club]. Complete with dust jacket. "[T]he finest series of historical detective stories ever written. in scholarship, humor, flavor, and compelling detail." -- QUEEN'S QUORUM 100. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Goldstone 786. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 MIDNIGHTS, pp. 195-96. . First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good jacket (price clip). Illus. by Chappell,… Leer más

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Near Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($2.75). A small piece of the jacket is missing along the rear turn-in fold. NOT too noticeable because the jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Bright, square and tight. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name blindstamped on first 3 leaves. 1946. "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page, with NO indication of any other printing. Frontispiece is a color illustration of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Bound in the original gilt-stamped cinnamon (i.e. dark orange) cloth. [NOTE: beware of copies in blue cloth offered as first editions; they are book club]. Complete with dust jacket. "[T]he finest series of historical detective stories ever written. in scholarship, humor, flavor, and compelling detail." -- QUEEN'S QUORUM 100. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Goldstone 786. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 MIDNIGHTS, pp. 195-96. . First Edition… Leer más

New York: The Grolier Club, 1970. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW slipcase. Perfect condition. Just removed from the publisher's protective plain paper and bubble wrap so we could write this description. Square and tight. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Fresh, crisp, clean, and unmarked -- obviously never read. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Impressive collection of essays concerning Samuel Johnson and his circle by outstanding scholars including James Clifford, Robert Metzdorf, Wilmarth Lewis, W. H. Bond, L. F. Powell, A. N. L. Munby, etc. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press. The book won an AIGA Fifty Books of the Year award. Essential for Samuel Johnson and James Boswell fans. Limited to 1,650 copies. Bound in the original gilt-stamped two-tone cloth (brown with black spine). Complete with pristine slipcase consisting of black cloth and gray paper-covered boards (imprinted with a pattern of the… Leer más

New York: The Grolier Club, 1970. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW slipcase. Perfect condition. Still enclosed in the publisher's protective plain paper and bubble wrap. Square and tight. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Fresh, crisp, clean, and unmarked -- obviously never read. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Impressive collection of essays concerning Samuel Johnson and his circle by outstanding scholars including James Clifford, Robert Metzdorf, Wilmarth Lewis, W. H. Bond, L. F. Powell, A. N. L. Munby, etc. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press. The book won an AIGA Fifty Books of the Year award. Essential for Samuel Johnson and James Boswell fans. Limited to 1,650 copies. Bound in the original gilt-stamped two-tone cloth (brown with black spine). Complete with pristine slipcase consisting of black cloth and gray paper-covered boards (imprinted with a pattern of the Grolier Club's device) and a… Leer más

Somerville, New Jersey: Privately Published, 1967. Complete 2 volume set. Very Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp - probably never read. The two volumes are limited to 1000, and 1250 copies respectively. Edited by Gabriel Austin. The Hydes brought together what was probably the best Samuel Johnson collection ever in private hands. They acquired Johnson material of major significance through their friendship with Ralph Isham. They bought en bloc the magnificent R. B. Adam collection. Aggressive buying at the A. E. Newton and other auctions as well as from prominent dealers continued to expand the collection. These volumes tell the fascinating story of the library the Hydes built and the friends and scholars they met along the way. There is much of historical interest on Johnson, Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, others in their circle, and manuscripts, books, and personal artifacts relating to them. Included are essays by James Clifford, L. F. Powell,… Leer más

Stanford, California: Stanford General Books, 2008. NEW in a NEW dust jacket. Near PERFECT condition. Shows just a bit of mild shelfwear (like you sometimes find in any new book store). Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. List of chapter notes/bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John. The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others… Leer más

Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985. A gorgeous, pristine copy of the 1985 FIRST EDITION. Brand New condition in a Brand New dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Illustrations. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original pale green cloth, stamped in black on the spine. Includes dust jacket. From the publisher: Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer. In his narrative of her life, McCarthy draws on a large body of published and unpublished sources to map Piozzi's literary development, define her literary identity, and evaluate her achievement. In addition to reexamining her best-known works, he present the first serious treatment of her poetry,… Leer más

London: Bickers & Son, 1884. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. Clean, square and reasonably tight. The front inner hinge has been neatly and securely re-glued. NO owner's name or bookplate. A few early pages have scattered brown speckles (light foxing). Otherwise all pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original black-stamped, brown cloth. Gilt stamping on the spine is still bright and shiny. Volume 2 only (of 5). Illustrated with 3 portraits -- Dr. Johnson, Edward Gibbon, and a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Thrale. Of the five, this volume is of the most interest to Johnsonians. "Edited, with Notes and Additional Chapters from the Author's Unpublished MS by Henry B. Wheatley.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. (vi), 448pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. 7.25" wide by 9.5" tall. Very Good condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Well illustrated with 99 old prints, portraits, document and manuscript facsimiles, etc. Chronology. Bibliographical note. List of Illustrations. Index. First printing, with complete row (with 1 present) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "He was an extraordinary bundle of paradoxes, and perhaps it is this that makes him so perennially interesting. Loving husband and father, dissipated whore chaser; conscientious lawyer, drunken buffoon; writer of tedious doggerel, and of one of the finest biographies in the English-language: what is one to make a man like this? His copious journals illuminate the paradox, showing us the narcissistic dreamer of glory (Guards officer? politician?… Leer más

New York: The New York Public Library, 1963. A beautiful, pristine copy -- obviously never read. Brand New condition. Sharp corners. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. NO tears. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square, and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp. 7" wide by 10" tall. With 2 illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson from 1786. First Separate Edition, reprinted from the February/March 1963 issue of the BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. Footnotes. Index. Bound in the original tan pictorial wraps.. First Separate Edition. Softcover. New. 59pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984. 5.5" wide by 8.25" tall. Trade paperback. As New condition. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, shiny, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Illustrated. Keywords: Samuel Johnson. . First Printing of the First Edition. Soft Cover. Original pictorial wraps. 574pp.

Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. From John Middendorf's review: "A thorough analysis of the quotations in the DICTIONARY as expressions of the essential Johnson." Introduction: The DICTIONARY as Literature. Ten chapters. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index of Words Cited. Index of Authors Cited. General Index. Bound in the original silver-stamped red cloth. Complete with a gorgeous dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. xiii, 303pp.

London: Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press, 1924. 2 volumes, complete. Very Good condition. Both are bright, clean and tight. No fading. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp. No foxing. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Includes Boswell's letters from 1758 - 1795. [Volume I, 29 July 1758 - 29 November 1777; Volume II, 8 January 1778 - 19 May 1795]. Collected and edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Footnotes. Three appendices. List of recipients. Index. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Boswell in 1793, and a tipped-in facsimile letter ("the first paper drawn by me as an Advocate" [1766], from the A. Edward Newton collection). Uniformly bound in the original brick-red cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spines. Brown (1972) #27 [BOSWELLIAN STUDIES, A BIBLIOGRAPHY].. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jackets. 8vo. xxiv, pp. 1-270 + xi, pp. 271-550.

Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1925. 3 separate volumes, complete. Near Very Good condition. Light cover soil. Previous owner's names on front endpaper. Internally Very Good to Fine. SEE OUR PHOTOS. Pages are clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. 1925. Reissue of the 1907 edition, with a substantial new preface by the editor giving much of interest on "recent results of the labours and researches of admirers of Johnson." This is an important edition as it contains 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure. The (London) Times reviewer stated: "The raison d'etre of this edition is its illustrations. Of these there are portraits from authentic originals, views from old prints, autographs, facsimile title-pages... a series of views of Johnson's old haunts... Mr. Ingpen's literary contribution consists of short notes to the pictures, and his industry in collecting illustrative material." From another review:… Leer más

Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1925. 3 separate volumes, complete. SEE OUR PHOTOS. Very Good++ condition. Sharp corners. One small spot on the spine of Vol. 1. NO owner's name or bookplate. Internally Near Fine. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. 1925. Reissue of the 1907 edition, with a substantial new preface by the editor giving much of interest on "recent results of the labours and researches of admirers of Johnson." This is an important edition as it contains 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure. The (London) Times reviewer stated: "The raison d'etre of this edition is its illustrations. Of these there are portraits from authentic originals, views from old prints, autographs, facsimile title-pages... a series of views of Johnson's old haunts... Mr. Ingpen's literary contribution consists of short notes to the pictures, and his industry in collecting illustrative material." From… Leer más

Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1966. Very Good condition. A square, reasonably tight copy. Previous owner's name on front pastedown endpaper. Text pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Endpaper maps of Medical Center campus and vicinity. 8 photographic plates. Bibliographical references. Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. The author was Dean Emeritus and Professor of Physiology, West Virginia University School of Medicine. Contained here are nine of his medical essays (WEREWOLVES AND MEDICINE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM AND MEDICINE; SLEEP IN OLDER PEOPLE; etc); twelve essays on medical education (THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, 1936; ANATOMY [+PHYSIOLOGY; +SURGERY] AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH ALTITUDE AT LIMA, PERU; etc.); five biographical essays (BENNET DOWLER, CLARKSBURG PHYSICIAN AND PHYSIOLOGIST; OTTON KNUT OLOF FOLIN; THE DEATH OF JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.; ALEXIS ST. MARTIN; THE CAUSE OF… Leer más

New York: Bowling Green Press, 1928. A gorgeous copy of the FIRST EDITION in Very Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded full-color frontispiece and 87 reproductions of title pages, letters, portraits, etc. Introduction by A. Edward Newton. Well annotated, with full collations, descriptions, pagination, etc. This is the standard Oliver Goldsmith bibliography, but it can be read for enjoyment as well as for reference. Has much on Samuel Johnson. Limited to 1000 copies, this being #76 of 750 for sale. The limitation is certified and signed by the printer, Edward Stern & Co., Inc., on the copyright page. Oversize Hardcover. 7.75" wide by 10.5" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in bright gold. The medallion embossed on the front cover… Leer más