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rif. 003795London: Office of the National Illustrated Library / Routledge Warnes and Routledge Uniformly bound in dark green blind stamped cloth with gilt decorated spines. Tour of the Hebrides shows a date of 1859. ILLUSTRATED. Covers show some upper/lower edge wear to backstrips ownership occasional light foxing small edge stain on 4 leaves only. Frontis in each volume intact with additional title page showing a title vignette. Office of the National Illustrated Library / Routledge, Warnes and Routledge hardcover
1991rif. 000633New Haven: Yale University Press 1991 412 pages bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Card laid in that reads "Yale Boswell Editions With the compliments of the Chairman". Boswell - the "Writer rake wit traveler and man-about-town kept a diary for 33 years beginning just before his first trip to London and extending over his eventful life till shortly before his death in 1795". Dust jacket in near fine condition with small closed corner tear protected in a mylar cover. CLEAN TIGHT COPY. See our other Boswell books search under "Boswell". Yale University Press hardcover
1986rif. 15163Iowa City: University of Iowa Press 1986. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is briefly inscribed on the title page. Author's first book. Six stories encompassing a vast gamut of personalities situations and emotions these stories penetrate our motives for doing what is right. Often there is no right or wrong and the characters' motives for the choices they make are as diverse as the childhood memories they cherish and abhor. In the end this book probes individual impulse and responsibility creating stories so unerringly authentic that they become—irrepressibly—part of everyone who reads them. "The Darkness of Love" narrates three days in the life of a black policeman distressed by his inner fears of racism and irresistibly attracted by his wife's sister. In "Dancing in the Movies" a college student returns to his hometown where he finds his girlfriend—a heroin addict—and tries to convince her to overcome her habit. There are stories of men at war of lovers trying to begin a relationship of others trying to sustain their love. Each story revolves around characters with a choice to make and Robert Boswell renders these characters in all of their fine vulnerable and relentless attributes. University of Iowa Press hardcover
1835rif. 00009011London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1835. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 10 vol. Small 8vo. 5 vi-xxiv 2 3-325 3; 5 vi-viii 1 2-344 2; 5 vi-ix 2 2-323 3; 5 vi-xii 1 2-343 1; 5 vi-viii 1 2-341 3; 5 vi-viii 1 2-342 2; 5 vi-viii 1 2-381 3; 5 vi-xi 2 2-431 3; 5 vi-xv 2 2-335 3; 5 vi-xii 1 2-376 2 pp. Late nineteenth-century half polished sheep over pink cloth spines in six compartments spines unpolished lettered and tooled in gold; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Beautifully bound by Riviere & Son. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece and vignette engraved title page volume three with a fold-out map of Scotland and the Hebrides. Volume six contains the fold-out Round Robin facsimile of Johnson's hand-writing to which there is a tiny hairline split not affecting the legibility of the fold-out plate. Oxford DNB Pat Rogers "Johnson Samuel 1709–1784". Pottle 92. The second Croker edition with little change to the text except for "the notes and Johnsoniana" Pottle 182. Pottle notes that the last two volumes in the set are extremely useful with some material never having been before published. Pottle also calls this "the first illustrated edition" Pottle 183. A stunning set of Boswell's magnum opus a monumental and early English biography. Samuel Johnson most famous for compiling the English dictionary that would replace the Bailey dictionary and would later become the dictionary that Noah Webster would consult is a legendary author and man of letters. Here his biographer and diarist James Boswell relates his life work and correspondences in the ten volumes. The final two volumes include the anecdotes about Johnson from his contemporaries. A principal work in English biographical literature housed in a lovely binding. A Near Fine set with a few hints of wear to the extremities overall bright and beautiful. John Murray, Albemarle Street hardcover
1793rif. 000012718London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1793. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 4to. 3 iv-xii 17 2-516; 3 2-588 586 4 2-42 pp. Contemporary calf with the spines in six compartments recent black morocco labels lettered in gold on the spines gold tooling on the spines. Volume one illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Johnson a stipple-engraving by James Heath volume two with two plates the "Round Robin" plate and the facsimile of Johnson's handwriting. Completing the title page: "with a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished". Grolier Club 100 Famous Books in English Literature 65. Oxford DNB Gordon Turnbull "Boswell James 1740–1795". Pottle 79. Rothschild 463. Our copy has the second state point in volume one with the word "give" spelled correctly on page 135. A contemporary bookplate on each front pastedown. Boswell's historical and literary magnum opus: arguably the most famous biography in English literature. Many have praised Boswell for his reconstruction of the larger-than-life character of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's personality shines through the letters and journal entries included in these volumes. Samuel Johnson of course is best-remembered for his revised English Dictionary done after Nathan Bailey's first pass at an English-language dictionary. Johnson's dictionary stands out as one of wit full of pithy entries reflective of his life experience and skilfull command of the English language. A handsome set of Boswell's story of Samuel Johnson a work that has been celebrated throughout the ages as a turning-point in biography remembrance and as a revolution in the characterization of a historical person. Recently and sympathetically rebacked a few corners subtly renewed. The title pages and the final plate has a neat repair. Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry hardcover
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1958rif. 56837London: Collins 1958. First Edition. Signed presentation from Boswell on the front endpaper: "Through is friend Patsy Card the undersigned sends his greetings and good wishes John Boswell. England December 1958. 12mo. blue cloth in dust jacket; 256 pages. Very Good covers nice & bright; contents clean & tight; little wear few short tears & little creasing rear cover; price-clipped d/j. Collins unknown
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1991rif. 141899By Author 1991. Staple Bound. Very Good. Book shows light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Magazine format 104 pages heavy paper covers a great many b&w photos. Authors are all writers for motorcycle publications. Inscribed by Cliff Boswell on back cover dated 1991. Publication date is from this date. Includes pamphlet The International Brotherhood of Motorcycle Campers by Cliff Boswell. Keywords: Harley Davidson Touring Equador Mexico California Baja By Author unknown
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