The Personal History of Samuel Johnson de Hibbert, Christopher - 1971

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated First U.S. Edition in original dust jacket. Very clean orange cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Tasteful previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. A newspaper advertisement for the book with a Washington Post review is lightly taped to a blank fly leaf, as is a review of the book by Peter Gardner. On the half title page are some interesting notes of a reader -- all in light pencil and written very small and neat. Text pages are clean - no writing or underlining. Illustrated with black and white plates. 364 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is price clipped, has fading to background on spine, shallow chipping to spine ends; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An absorbing account of Samuel Johnson's private life, his work, pleasures and pronouncements in a most minutely detailed portrait since Boswell's..