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1974rif. 58259Avon CT: The Limited Editions Club 1974. Limited Edition. No. 310 of 1500 hand-numbered copies. Octavo 25.5cm; half red morocco over marbled boards gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt; 327pp; illus. In publisher's board slipcase. A tight Fine copy in the original publisher's slipcase lightly dusted Near Fine. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1859rif. 86325London: Routledge Warnes and Routledge 1859. Third Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; green cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in gilt to spine and blind embossed to covers; xxx12-3613pp. Previous owner's gift inscription inked with Christmas 1861 date to front endpaper and pencilled fish illustration to front flyleaf. Modest shelf-wear and rubbing with loss of cloth to spine ends and corners and dampsoil to pastedowns endpapers and lower edge of textblock; Good. First published in 1785 this is the travel journal of two friends Boswell and Johnson as they toured through the western islands of Scotland and the Scottish Highlands. 86325. Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge unknown books
1793rif. 9032052London: Printed by Henry Baldwin 1793. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition revised and augmented." Subtitle reads "Comprehending An Account Of His Studies And Numerous Works In Chronological Order; A Series Of His Epistolary Correspondence And Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; And Various Original Pieces Of His Composition Never Before Published." Beautifully bound in leather with spines stamped in gilt leather labels stamped in gilt and covers blind-stamped with rules. The whole set is in remarkable condition. Text blocks are clean and bright with sharp corners bindings have only the most minimal wear to extremities. Gorgeous. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. 1948 total pages. Printed by Henry Baldwin hardcover books
1793rif. 6215London: Henry Baldwin 1793. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with "gve" for "give" in the uncorrected state line 10 on p. 135 in Volume I and all of the errata uncorrected. Two quarto volumes 10 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches; 274 x 216 mm. vii 1 blank ix-xii 16 "Table of Contents" and "Corrections and Additions" 516; 2 588 i.e. 586 pp. Engraved frontispiece by James Heath from a portrait of Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds in Volume I two engraved facsimile plates in Volume II. "Round Robin." facing p. 92 and "Fac Similes of Dr. Johnson's hand writing" facing p. 588. Together with at the end of volume II: BOSWELL James. The Principal Corrections and Additions to the first edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. Title verso blank 42 pp. Bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1910 in full mottled calf covers with triple gilt rules. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments red and brown morocco labels lettered in gilt gilt ruled board edges decorative gilt turn-ins marbled end-papers all edges gilt. Expertly rebacked and corners strengthened over fifty years ago with original spines laid down. Occasional light foxing or staining to a few leaves otherwise a fine copy of the first issue with the exceptionally rare Principal Corrections and Additions bound in at the end of volume two. "Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them" Macauley. Indeed drawing on his close and longstanding collaboration with Johnson as well as Johnson's own diary James Boswell released a book that was a popular success and helped to establish the modern genre of biography. Still considered an important resource on the life and times of the famed memoirist and dictionary compiler Boswell's Life of Johnson breathes vivid life into one of the most important British figures of the century. "We know of him not as he was known to men of his generation but as he was known to men whose fathers he might have been.and long after his works may be forgotten he will be remembered through Boswell's Life" Macauley. This was Boswell's last publication before his death in 1795. "The work The Principal Corrections and Additions is now difficult to obtain; when it turns up it is almost invariably bound in with a copy of the first edition of the Life" Pottle. Regarding the "gve" or "give" question: "gve" is the earlier state. "The first proof shows the word correctly spelled but the lines are punctuated as follows: "Short O short! then be thy reign And give us to the world again." Boswell passed this in the proof but in the revise both proof and revise are in the possession of Mr. Adam he directed the printer to remove the exclamation point in the first line and substitute it for the first period at the end of the second which is in fact the punctuation of the printed text. When the changes were made the "I" dropped out and the printer not noticing what had happened filled up the line by inserting a space between "gve" and "us". After a considerable part of the edition had been printed the error was discovered and corrected in the press" Pottle. The correct first issue as here reads: "Short O short then be thy reign And gve us to the world again!" Near Fine. Courtney & Nichol Smith pp. 172-3. Grolier 100 English 65. Pottle 79 & 113. Rothschild 464 & 466. Sterling 71. Tinker 338. Near Fine. Henry Baldwin unknown books
1925rif. 9031535Boston: Charles E. Lauriat 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Edited and with notes by Ingpen. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spines and covers stamped in gilt. Contains 576 illustrations facsimiles and maps in black and white including thirteen plates in photogravure. Mild wear to corners heads and heels. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. 1172 pages total pages. Charles E. Lauriat hardcover books
1956rif. 810611956. Boswell James; Brady Frank; Pottle Frederick A. Boswell in Search of a Wife. 1766-1769. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. 1956. First edition. xxvi 390 pp. frontispiece portraits folded maps facsimiles genealogical tables. Publisher's original navy quarter cloth to spine with gilt stamped spine. Boards rubbed and soiled wear to spine ends corners and edges. Deckled edges. Good. $15. The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell. Taken from James Boswell's original unpublished journal detailing his sometimes indiscreet affairs and quest for a suitable partner. Publisher's description. unknown books
2013rif. 9031964Minneapolis: Graywolf 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed presentation by author on title page. Bound in publisher's original brown boards with spine stamped in silver. 6 x 9 inches. 431 pages. Graywolf hardcover books
1816rif. 54679London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1816. Octavo 22cm in four volumes. In contemporary brown calf with blind roll and double gilt frame to boards; gilt tooling to board edges rebacked in brown leather titled in gilt on spines all edges marbled; brown endpapers; vol I: ii i-xxxviii 1-481pp; vol II: ii 1 496pp; vol III: ii 1-483pp; vol IV: ii 1-530pp; with frontispiece portrait by W. T. Fry and folding plate with handwriting facsimiles in vol. I and folding plate with "Round Robin" facsimile in vol. II. Vols II-IV with ownership inscriptions of "J. M. Beatty 1869" and "W. E. Hall / Bridge of Allan." Clean upright copies in sturdy bindings board edges rubbed damage to vol. I f.f.e.p. where bookplate was removed and one-cm tear to "Round Robin" plate at hinge: Good. POTTLE 88. T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
1785rif. 1227001785. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1785. Sm. 8vo iii-vii lacks half-title 1 524 1pp. Modern full diaper calf panelled in gilt backstrip stamped and lettered in gilt with 4 raised bands a lovely retrospective binding by Dusel. Light scuff on upper board early name on title page; a clean and attractive copy. § First edition mixed issue; E3 E4 and M4 are cancels as usual; leaves I5 Q7 and U6 are in Pottle's second state. We first sold this copy in 2005 after Dusel rebound it. It makes a very attractive gift copy. "Though the Life is a vaster and richer piece of work no one will maintain that it displays Boswell's unique gift for biography better than the Tour. Indeed most lovers of Boswell will agree that the Tour as a whole is more consistently good than the Life; that is that nowhere in the Life could one find so many consecutive first-class pages as those that compose this book" Pottle 57. Rothschild 456. unknown books
1901rif. 9023265London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1901. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound in half leather and cloth covered boards gilt ruled covers. Four raised bands on the spines. Spines are sunned stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities. Frontispieces and illustrations throughout. J. M. Dent & Sons hardcover books
1997rif. 28240Minneapolis: Walker Art Center 1997. First Edition. Quarto. Linen-backed glazed illustrated boards; 224pp; illus. Faint sticker residue to front board else about Fine; no dustjacket presumably as issued. Survey of the montage work of the eminent Berlin Dadaist Hanna Höch 1889-1978 including her daring Weimar-era anti-fascist collages. Walker Art Center unknown books
1999rif. 9018373London: Folio Society 1999. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's navy quarter-cloth and illustrated boards. Blue topstain. Edited and Introduced by Frederick A. Pottle. Frontispiece and nineteen additional illustrations throughout. One corner is slightly bumped otherwise fine. Folio Society hardcover books
1953rif. 9015897London: William Heinemann 1953. Hardcover. Fine condition / Near fine slipcase. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Edited by Frederick Pottle One of 1000 numbered copies of the Deluxe edition Illustrated. Quarter vellum and cloth stamped in gilt on the front cover and with a gilt stamped leather label on the spine. t.e.g. very good slipcase. William Heinemann hardcover books
1952rif. 9015898London: William Heinemann 1952. Hardcover. Fine condition / near fine slipcase. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Edited by Frederick A. PottleOne of 1050 numbered copies of de luxe edition. Quarter vellum and cloth stamped in gilt on the cover. Fine condition in a near fine slipcase. William Heinemann hardcover books
1960rif. 9015899London: William Heinemann 1960. Hardcover. Fine condition. The Yale Editions of the Papers of James Boswell edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. Il;lustrated. One of 350 numbered copies of the Deluxe edition bound in quarter vellum with gilt stamped label on the spine. William Heinemann hardcover books
rif. 9015900London William Heinemann 1957. Hardcover. Fine condition / Very good slipcase. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Edited By Frank Brady And Frederick A. Pottle.One of 400 numbered copies of the Deluxe edition. Quarter vellum and cloth stamped in gilt on the cover and lettered in gilt on the spine t.e.g. slipcase Fine condition in a very good slipcase. London, William Heinemann, 1957 hardcover books
1974rif. 9445Bloomfield: Limited Editions Club 1974. Hardcover. Fine condition in a fine slipcase. Thomas Rowlandson. Illustrated with reprodutctions of contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson. Of the edition limited to 2000 numbered copies printed at Sign of the Stone Book this is an out of series copy designated "S.S." presumably for Sid Shiff. Bound in the publisher's original quarter red leather and marbled boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. LEC Bibliography 474. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1994rif. 9000298Santa Ana CA U.S.A.: Seven Locks Press 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine DJ. Paul Boswell. Introduction by James H. Billington. This is a collection poetry and drawings by Paul Bowell librarian at the Library of Congress from 1936-84. First ediiton. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. Seven Locks Press hardcover books
1997rif. 4827New York: Knopf 1997. Fine Condition. Mimeographed typed manuscript. An early in-house state of the author's recent novel the likely product of the keystroking of the author's submitted manuscript. 530 pages. A cardstock sheet with Knopf publication and biographical data serves as a cover. Scarce format. Knopf unknown books
rif. 2553Boswell James. LETTERS OF JAMES BOSWELL ADDRESSED TO THE REV. W.J. TEMPLE. London Richard Bentley 1857. 1st edition. Rebound in brown pebbled cloth with the original blind-stamped cloth mounted on the front cover and spine. Very good condition. hardcover books
1952rif. 1228London: William Heinemann 1952. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 1050 numbered copies of the deluxe edition. Quarter vellum and cloth stamped in gilt on the cover and lettered in gilt on the spine t.e.g. William Heinemann hardcover books
1952rif. 557London: William Heinemann 1952. Hardcover. Fine condition in a fine slipcase. One of 1050 numbered copies of de luxe edition. Quarter vellum and cloth stamped in gilt on the cover and lettered in gilt on the spine t.e.g. uncut and unopened. William Heinemann hardcover books
1987rif. 3774New York: Knopf 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Author's second book and first novel. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards with the spine stamped in black. Dust jacket. Knopf hardcover books
1997rif. 4816New York: Knopf 1997. Uncorrected Proof. Bound in the publisher's original wrappers stamped in black on the front cover and spine. Minor bump to one corner otherwise near fine condition. Knopf unknown books
rif. 6728London William Heinemann 1951. One of 1050 numbered copies. Quarter vellum and cloth stamped in gilt on the cover and lettered in gilt on the spine t.e.g. uncut and unopened 448 pp. Fine. London, William Heinemann, 1951 hardcover books
