BOSWELL, HazelABAA
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1938réf. 517925New York: Published by the Viking Press 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated in color by the author. Oblong octavo. Small soil spot on front board and topedge about near fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with a few small tears and a one inch chip on the front panel. Published by the Viking Press hardcover books
1982réf. 111407New York: Fireside / Simon & Schuster 1982. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Slim quarto. Heavily illustrated in color. Printed wrappers. Wrappers with light toning and wear near fine. All of the paper dolls and their clothing are present. Quite the production. Fireside / Simon & Schuster unknown books
1989réf. 145511New York: Doubleday 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Uncorrect proof. Near fine with a lightly faded spine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Doubleday unknown books
1994réf. 371111New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1994. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Wrappers. Toning else about near fine with a press release stapled on the verso on the front wrapper. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1993réf. 372343New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Oversized pink wrappers. Curled with soiling and a tear on the front wrapper else very good. Signed by the author. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1987réf. 366317New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Wrappers. Toning and some staining on the front wrapper else very good. Signed by the author. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1928réf. 162552CA: Stanford 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Two volumes. Spines faded and some scuffing to the boards. Volume I missing headband. Lacking the slipcase. Included two page folded promotion for this title from Stanford University Press. Stanford hardcover books
1987réf. 35074New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Fine with a small pen mark on the front wrap. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1987réf. 35075New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1987réf. 57721New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine spine faded dustwrapper. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1987réf. 35076New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with review slip and photo of the author laid in. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1901réf. 8468London: J.M. Dent & Co 1901. 458464466pp. Octavo 23 cm Green cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Map endsheets and pastedowns. All volumes very good or better. Illustrated with numerous photogravures. Classic work that was from the beginning a critical and popular success and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography. It is notable for its extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. J.M. Dent & Co unknown books
1997réf. 626057New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition signed issue. Red remainder dot on topedge and binding very slightly cocked near fine in modestly worn very good dust jacket with a tiny area of label residue on the front cover and a tiny tear. Signed by Boswell on an additional leaf bound in by the publisher. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1962réf. 627616New York: The Modern Library 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later printing "The present text follows that of Malone's sixth edition" - from introduction by Herbert Askwith. Complete and unabridged in one volume. Thick octavo. xv 1200pp. Blue Toledano style G5 binding stamped in red and gilt in Toledano style Ge jacket. Gutter cracked before title page faint stains on bottom page edges corners bumped else a very good copy in a very good rubbed dust jacket with some loss on the spine ends and corners. Titles listed inside jacket date this to 1962. The Modern Library hardcover books
1987réf. 571985New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Advance Reading Copy. Illustrated wrappers. Toning and some creasing thus very good. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1835réf. 29099London: John Murray. Very Good. 1835. 1/4 Cloth. A rather attractive complete set of Croker's Second edition Pottle 92. All volumes in Very Good or better condition except volume five showing beginning separation of spine internally fine though. Bound in attractive red morocco all edges gilt. Raised bands gilt lettering and decoration on the spines. First volume showing bookplate from the libary of Oscar Benjamin Cintas prominent sugar and railroad magnate and book collector who served as Cuba's ambassador to the United States from 1932 until 1934; Often praised as the greatest biography written in English Boswell's famous work covers Samuel Johnson 1709 -1784 English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer; Small 8vo . John Murray hardcover books
1791réf. 7195London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1791. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Two volumes. 4to. Pp. xii 16 3-516; 1 2-588 2. Engraved portrait frontis. after Sir Joshua Reynolds in the first volume. Second volume illustrated with two plates of Dr. Johnson's handwriting in facsimile. Marbled endpapers. Full speckled calf with gilt filigree borders and inner dentelles rebacked in period style; repaired corners. Two bookplates: "The High Canon's Library" and "Malo Mori Quam Foedari" possibly the plate of Cardinal Henry Edward Manning. Interiors quite nice. First edition first state with "gve" in lieu of "give" on p.135 of Vol. I. Boswell's achievement was not to simply capture the brilliance and wit of his subject but to provide through meticulous scholarship the complexities of Johnson amid the literary realm of his era. Provenance: Sold at the 1922 Sotheby's sale of The Valuable Library . of the Late Baroness Burdett Coutts. Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry unknown books
1831réf. 66493London: John Murray Albemarle-Street 1831. First Crocker edition 5 volumes 8vo each volume with engraved frontispiece plus the round-robin plate and a folding map of the Hebrides; original brown paper-covered boards printed paper labels on spines; some cracking of the joints especially on volume V extremities a bit chipped spine labels darkened; good and sound or better. This edition still stands as a monument of Johnsonian scholarship; but it was badly edited and much famously condemned by Macaulay. Seeing the problem Murray hastily engaged Wright to do a make-over and republished it in 1835. Pottle 91: "The publication of this remarkable edition opens an entirely new era in the history of Boswell's book. John Murray, Albemarle-Street unknown books
1826réf. 66492Oxford: published by William Pickering London and Talboys and Wheeler Oxford 1826. First Pickering edition 4 volumes 8vo pp. xxi 1 394; 4 416; 4 395 1; ix 1 428; publisher's device on title pages 4 pages of Pickering ads for the Oxford English Classics tipped into the front of volume IV engraved portrait of Boswell after Joshua Reynolds folding Round Robin plate and a double-page facsimile of Johnson's handwriting all spotted; original red cloth paper labels on spines quite rubbed with some loss spine ends chipped but generally good and sound in the original binding. Early ownership signature of "R. Dixon" on the front pastedown of volumes II-IV. Issued on the publisher's Oxford English Classics series. Keynes p. 54; Pottle 90: "This edition in four volumes large octavo is the most beautiful that has yet appeared. The editor was Francis Pearson Walesby 1798-1858 Fellow of Lincoln College and afterwards 1829-34 Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford who in the previous year had edited the edition of Johnson's works in the Oxford English Classics with which this edition of the Life is uniform . This is the first edition of the Life to include a portrait of Boswell as a frontispiece." Books bound in full cloth date from the 1760s onwards. These early cloth bindings were generally of coarsely woven hessian cloth or canvas and used most frequently on school textbooks. Publishers' full cloth bindings date from the early to mid-1820s William Pickering being one of the early innovators. published by William Pickering, London, and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford unknown books
1793réf. 66491London: printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1793. First London octavo third edition overall following the first of 1791 and the Dublin octavo of 1792; 3 volumes pp. 2 xviii xvii-xxxix 1 i-xxxvi 2 603 1; 2 634; 2 711 1; frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; original blue paper-covered boards roan shelfbacks titles printed in black on spines mostly rubbed away on volumes I and II; spines rubbed and worn with chips out at the tops and bottoms joints cracked; good copy at best but uncommon in original boards uncut. This copy has the extra leaf c3 in volume one with "additional corrections" and all the misprints identified by Rothschild with the exception that page 408 of volume three is printed incorrectly. "The text of the second edition . deserves a close study. Although we believe that the third represents the form in which Boswell would ultimately have arranged the supplementary material we can never be sure of it for this edition was the last actually published in his lifetime. There were also many pleasant and characteristic sentences introduced in this edition which naturally dropped out when the text was shaken together by Malone." Pottle 81. Rothschild 468. printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry unknown books
1807réf. 64362Boston: published by W. Andrews and L. Blake Greenough and Stebbins printers 1807. First American edition taken from the fifth Malone edition published in London earlier the same year 8vo 3 volumes frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; contemporary full sheep black and red labels; joints reinforced on first and third volumes joints rubbed on the second volume paper flaw on pages 265-6 in the second volume affecting a few letters; generally a good sound set in a tan cloth clamshell box. Ownership signature of Anna Guest on all title pages. This is the first edition of The Life to contain an index. American Imprints 12184; Pottle 85. published by W. Andrews and L. Blake, Greenough and Stebbins, printers unknown books
1831réf. 53394London: John Murray 1831. First Crocker edition 5 volumes 8vo each volume with engraved frontispiece plus the round-robin plate and a map of the Hebrides; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards maroon and brown morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; light wear to extremities upper joint of vol. 1 rubbed but firm lower corner of vol. 3 bumped a near fine copy. This edition still stands as a monument of Johnsonian scholarship; but it was badly edited and much famously condemned by Macaulay. Seeing the problem Murray hastily engaged Wright to do a make-over and republished it in 1835. Pottle 91: The publication of this remarkable edition opens an entirely new era in the history of Boswell's book. John Murray unknown books
1793réf. 53381London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. First London octavo third edition overall following the first of 1791 and the Dublin octavo of 1792; 3 volumes pp. 2 xviii i-xxxvi 2xvii-xxxix 1 603 1; 2 634; 2 711 1; frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards red leather labels on spines black numbering pieces that on vol. II a little chipped; in all a good sound set or better unrestored; in a recent brown cloth slipcase. This copy has the extra leaf c3 in volume one with "additional corrections" and all the misprints identified by Rothschild with the exception that page 408 of volume three is printed incorrectly. Bookplates of Lord Rendelsham in each volume. "The text of the second edition . deserves a close study. Although we believe that the third represents the form in which Boswell would ultimately have arranged the supplementary material we can never be sure of it for this edition was the last actually published in his lifetime. There were also many pleasant and characteristic sentences introduced in this edition which naturally dropped out when the text was shaken together by Malone" Pottle 81. Rothschild 468. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown books
1827réf. 53380Oxford: William Pickering London; and Talboys and Wheeler 1827. First Pickering edition 4 volumes 8vo engraved portrait of Boswell after Joshua Reynolds Round Robin plate and a facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; contemporary full blindstamped calf gilt decorated spines a.e.g.; light wear to the spines but on the whole very good and sound. CBEL II 1214; Keynes p. 54; Kelly 1826.2; Pottle 90: "This edition in four volumes large octavo is the most beautiful that has yet appeared. The editor was Francis Pearson Walesby 1798-1858 Fellow of Lincoln College and afterwards 1829-34 Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford who in the previous year had edited the edition of Johnson's works in the Oxford English Classics with which this edition of the Life is uniform . This is the first edition of the Life to include a portrait of Boswell as a frontispiece. William Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler unknown books
1791réf. 53375London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First edition the so-called second state with "give" reading on p. 135 in vol. I 2 volumes 4to pp. xii 16 516; 2 588; engraved portrait frontispiece by Heath after Joshua Reynolds and with the Round Robin plate and the plate showing facsimile signatures of Johnson; nice copy in contemporary full calf neatly and pleasingly rebacked sometime in the 20th century preserving the old red and black morocco labels on spine; all the standard cancels are present per Pottle. Regarding the "give" versus "gve" reading Pottle notes that the "booksellers have given this rather uninteresting 'point' more attention than it deserves." Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of the heroic poets Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of the dramatists Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of the orators than Boswell is the first of biographers" Macaulay. Grolier English 100 no. 65; Rothschild 463; Pottle 79. Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown books
