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1863rif. 17261London: Routledge Warne and Routledge. Near Fine. 1863. A New Edition. Hardcover. "Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order; A Series of his Epistolary Correspondance 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 Nearly Half a Century During Which he Flourished. A New Edition Elucidated by Copious Notes and Illustrated with Numerous Portraits Views and Characteristic Designs Engraved from Authentic Sources." Fine half calf with marbled paper covered boards. Page edges feathered decoration. Plain endpapers no inscriptions. Some foxing to prelims of both volumes. ; Engravings; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall . Routledge, Warne, and Routledge hardcover
1930rif. 809891930. 1930 Boswell James EVERYBODY'S BOSWELL; BEING THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON ABRIDGED FROM JAMES BOSWELL'S COMPLETE TEXT AND FROM THE "TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES" London: G Bell and Sons 1930 609pp Illustrated Ernest Shepard black and white rear end paper maps 8vo "This Large Paper Edition Signed by the Artist is Limited to THree Hundred and Fifty Copies of Which This is Number 68" Signed by Ernest Shepard on the limitation page Polished brown cloth two figures stamped in gold and black on front cover gold lettering on the spine upper edge gilt First free end page has been neatly removed discoloration on the back cover lower corner tips rounded; overall Very Good attractive hardcover. unknown
1974rif. 39091974. 1974 Boswell James THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES With marginal comments by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi The Limited Editions Club 1974 #687/2000cc 327pp illus Thomas Rowlandson Oversize 8vo half-leather over marbled paper boards As new hardcover with near fine slipcase faint sticker "shadow" on lower edge of spine panel lacking corner tip of spine label. unknown
1969rif. 29923HBDJ 1969 1st edition Early ISSUE REPRINT VG/VG Larger format BACK OF DJ SAYS FEW 500 AUTHORS ENDS WITH ZOLA ANCHOR FISH LOGO DJ SPINE BURGUNDYRED CLOTH WITH GOLD GILT ON SPINE CVR lite scuff backof DJ FISH ANCHOR LOGO ON BTM DJ SPINE RED CLOTH minor shelf wear to corners and edges PGS NICE & WHITE 247 PGS ADS . GHOSTS shows softening of Brain as result of disease Inherited from Licentious Father. Mrs. Alving is dominant figur in ths Play Warriors period Play action being set in North Norway in middle 10th Century EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY DENT LONDON DUTTON NY ALDEN PRESSPRINTED INGREAT BRITAIN hardcover
1954rif. 181108079Collins 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Please note this is the read-with-me wonder book edition. Collins hardcover
1988rif. 150514042Loveswept 1988-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. Loveswept paperback
1936rif. 31677New York: The Viking Press 1936. Limited Edition. 1/4 Cloth. Very Good/Slipcase. Red paper covered boards display minimal wear. On-laid titles to slightly sunned red cloth covered spine. Book body clean and tight. Red slipcase shows only light wear to edges. Limited Edition 134/790. The Viking Press unknown
2001rif. 79844R.M. Verygood Press 2001. paperback. near very good condition with some wear and rubbing Inscribed and signed by Hamilton T. Boswell R.M. Verygood Press paperback
1924rif. 0009095London: The Navarre Society 1924. New Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 20 photogravures. 8vos; 433 479 577 pages rebound by Birdsall of London in 3/4 red morocco raised bands extra-gilt spines head and tail bands. Limited to 2000 copies. The text of the first editioin reprinted verbatim with the corrections and additions. Includes a facsimile autograph letter. Boswell's JOHNSON was considered the paragon of biographies for nearly two centuries. 20 photogravures 50 half-tones. . Preface by Clement K. Shorter. The Navarre Society hardcover
1816rif. 52001280048Alnwick printed by and for J. Graham 1816. Leather. Acceptable. Leather covered Hardcovers. SCARCE ORIGINAL 1816 12 VOLUME SET COMPLETE. Text unmarked vol. 6 has very minor marking in margins. Pages with tanning and minor light foxing spots. Light damp stains on some. Covers show heavy edge wear with heavy rubbing/scuffing. Bumped corners. Spine edge wear/chipping. Some covers are separating or separated at hinges but all are present. Previous owners bookplate on inside front covers and name/inscription on front end paper. TITLES: 1: Poems and Philological Tracts 2: The Rambler 3: The Rambler 4: Rambler and Adventurer 5: Idler and Rasselas 6: Lives of the Poets 7: Lives of the Poets 8: Lives of the Poets and Eminent Persons 9: Hebrides Political Essays Miscellanies 10: Miscellanies Dedications Letters Prayers Index 11: Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D. with fold-out of Facsimiles of Dr. Johnson's Hand Writing 12: Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D. with fold-out of Round Robin addresed to Samuel Johnson L.L.D with Facsimiles of the Signatures. Volumes definitely show their age but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Alnwick (printed by and for J. Graham) hardcover
1963rif. 51805020049THE HERITAGE PRESS 1963-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcovers. No DJ's. 3 VOLUME SET. Text clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear.Volume 1 shows light markings on front. Bindings tight hinges strong. No slipcase.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! THE HERITAGE PRESS hardcover
1986rif. AA-1171-8373Hall Printing / Boswell Ladies Club 1986-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1986 first edition Hall Printing / Boswell Ladies Club Boswell British Columbia Canada 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches tall wire spiral bound in pictorial covers copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs 4 174 pp. Slight soiling and moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers. Very slight staining to fore page edges. Otherwise apart from a few pages with creased tips a very good copy - clean bright and unmarked - of this scarce local history. ~AA~ 2.0P A history of Boswell a rural locality on the east shore of Kootenay Lake approximately 35 km due east of the city of Nelson British Columbia Canada. More than half the volume is dedicated to histories of families in Boswell LaFrance Lockhart Sanca and Twin Bays so this is an important reference for the history or genealogy researcher. Contents: Geography and Early Surveys; Indians; Pioneers; Population History; Fruit Growing and Ranching; Mining; Logging; Fishing Hunting and Trapping; Transportation: Steamboats and Railways Early Roads; Communications: Newspapers Radio and Telephone; Power and Water; Businesses Stores and Resorts; Health Care; The Law and Forest Fire Protection; Organizations; Church; Politics; The Depression Years; Boswell - Introduction Post Office School Families; LaFrance - Introduction School Families; Lockhart - Introduction Families; Sanca - Introduction Post Office School Families; Twin Bays - Introduction Families; World War I; World War II; Index; Bibliography. Hall Printing / Boswell Ladies Club paperback
1951rif. 1535471321Heinemann 1951. Limited Edition. Unknown Binding. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Limited edition. Minor shelf and handling wear overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Copy #1029. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Heinemann unknown
1968rif. 26094McGraw-Hill 1968. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS. Volume 2 of the "The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell Research Edition". Almost like new. Very minimal barely visible cover wear. Page edges minimally soiled from use. Name on false title page otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket slightly worn slightly soiled. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order daily shipments and sturdy packaging. McGraw-Hill, hardcover
1930rif. 521Published by George Bell and Sons in 1930 illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Leather bound raised bands on spine gilt stamping front spine and back cover. Cover is rubbed and slightly scuffed see photo with this listing. Gilt edges head and tail bands. Binding firm text appears unmarked. Double page map at end of the volume after the index. A lovely copy. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi O-D3 George Bell and Sons, Limited hardcover
2003rif. Bib99887733221New Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
2004rif. Bib778855442211New McDougal Littell hardcover
1931rif. 62621931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The Modern Library Pub. NY 1931; 1st edition thus; fine condition with a very good dust jacket: jacket shows light wear to edges and some fading to spine else fine; Samuel Johnson; Literature hardcover
1914rif. 61031914. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Privately Published for Subscribers/Julian Park; Buffalo NY 1914; 1st edition; fine condition; bound in hard cover cloth; Boswell Park; Science hardcover
1873rif. 009331London: William P. Nimmo 1873. New edition revised from the most authentic sources &c. &c. Edited with notes etc by William Wallace. Bound in half calf with raised bands on the spine red leather gilt lettered label with title and author. Gilt decorated compartments. Marbled papered boards with gilt edging to leather edges. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Johnson from a picture by Joshua Reynolds with tissue guard. Engraved and printed title pages. xvi 560 pages. Text arranged in double columns.6.5 X 9.5 inches approx. Externally the book is rubbed with a bit of wear to the leather corners.However all is very sound and solid. Inside again very sound and solid with firm hinges and no splitting or opening to the endpapers at the hinge. There is some small amount of spotting to the final blank pages pages otherwise all pretty clean throughout all unmarked with no annotaions marks or signs of previous ownership etc. Overall a very good nicely bound ninteenth century edition of Boswell's famous biography of Samual Johnson. New Edition. Half Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. William P. Nimmo Hardcover
1891rif. 008198London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1891. The long title reads as follows: "a reprint of the first edition to which are added Mr. Boswell's corrections and additions issued in 1791; the variations of the second edition with some of the author's notes prepared for the third; the whole edited with new notes by Percy Fitzgerald . Second edition with a preface by the editor and a Boswell bibliography by H. R. Tedder librarian to the Athenaeum Club" Complette in three volumes Uniformly bound in full maroon calf by Spottiswoode & Co. with raised bands on the spines gilt lettered labels bearing title and author and volume numbers with gilt decorated partitions.double gilt ruled borders to the boards with the crest of Eton College in the centre. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Volume one : FRontis engraved portrait of Johnson with tissue guard facsimile of the 1791 title page. xlii a-m538 pages. Volume two : 527 pages. Volume three : 525 pages. All three volumes are in very good condition. Only with minor rubs to the leather here and there the bindings are all very sound and solid inside all complete and in good order throughout. Pages all very clean and unmarked with no foxing and no marking no annotations or other signs of ownership. The volumes each measure 6 X 8.5 inches. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Hardcover
1934rif. 41948Philadelphia: Published for the Author By John C. Winston. Very Good-. 1934. Hardcover. Diagrams; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages; SIGNED 1934 Published for the Author By John C. Winston Philadelphia. HC in original thatch patterned blue cloth with titles in gilt to cover and spine. Signed by the author on the dedication page. Cloth at spine a little darkened; gilt letering to spine lightly rubbed and faded. Prior owner name to front endpage; a few scattered instances of pencil checkmarks or brief notation. Solid and neat; uncommon. VG-; Signed by Author . Published for the Author By John C. Winston hardcover
1929rif. 90178n.p.:: Privately Printed. Very Good. 1929. Hardcover. B0008B1RHQ . Volume 5 in the Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle series. Reproduced from the collection of Lt-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham. Limited edition: this copy is number 403 of 570 copies. Faded and edge worn along the spine else very good in a very good cracked at the base of the spine edge worn areas of fading slipcase. ; 142 pages . Privately Printed, hardcover
1987rif. 017754New York New York U.S.A.: DOUBLEDAY 1987. Book. N-Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. A square tight solid clean un-readun-opened copy that has a gift inscription on the FFEP. The DW does some minor rubbingsome edgewear. This copy has been signed by Boswell. DOUBLEDAY Hardcover
1990rif. 122a5290Montreal PQ Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press 1990. Book. Illus. by Belisle Jean-Francoise illustrator; Belisle Jean-Francois illustrator. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 136 pages. "Author delightfully recounts many adventures from her mother's childhood more than a century ago. Provides rich and vivid detail of post-Confederation Quebec." - from dust jacket. Former library copy with usual markings. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Nice working copy. McGill-Queen's University Press Hardcover