3 842 résultats
1901W62907ANew York: McClure Phillips & Co. 1901. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. TEG other edges untrimmed. A very good edition of the famous biography edited by Arnold Glover with an introduction by Austin Dobson. . First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Herbert Railton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. McClure, Phillips & Co. Hardcover books
1824WN34116London: Printed for Thomas Tegg et al. 1824. Full purplish calf with gilt rules and grape leaf and vine decoration. 4 raised bands. New red and blue morocco spine titling and numbering labels. Marbled edges and endpapers. Bookplates on each front pastedown. Silk markers still present in 4 of the volumes. Some foxing throughout. Facsimile fold-out of letter in Dr. Johnson's handwriting in beginning of Vol. 1. Gift inscription dated 1830 on ffep in Vol. 1. A beautiful and rare set. First Thus. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Trade. Printed for Thomas Tegg, et al. Hardcover books
1791W57382London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. Quarter tan calf 5 raised bands gilt titling on red morocco labels with marbled paper covered boards. Top edges stained gray. Contemporary binding with overall wear stains and rubbing and some loss of paper on boards. Apparent restoration done on joints and tips of each volume extending into paper of boards. Housed in green cloth covered chemises with cloth pulls and slipcases the latter with green morocco spines 5 raised bands and gilt lettering on red morocco labels. Chemises and slipcases are very good with only a few scuffs and marks on slipcases. Frontispiece of Samuel Johnson Vol. 1 and 2 engravings Vol. 2 pgs. 92 and 588 misnumbered as called for. The second state with "give" properly spelled pg. 135. Handwritten notation on preliminary in each volume stating "Tadcaster Library" a community in Yorkshire. Photos available on request. Extra postage may be due because of size. . First Edition Second State. Quarter Leather. Good/Slipcases Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly Hardcover books
1952Embry 184973William Heinmann Ltd 1952. Limited edition one of 1050 copies. Upper corners sligthly bumped mild toning to spine else fine in very good publisher's slipcase. Vellum backed blue cloth. William Heinmann, Ltd, 1952. Limited edition, one of 1050 copies. hardcover books
1952Embry 158706McGraw-Hill 1952. 3rd printing. Slight sunning to upper edges else fine in fine dust jacket with a few short closed tears in mylar cover. McGraw-Hill, 1952. 3rd printing. unknown books
19281298566Stanford: Stanford University Press 1928. First Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Two volume set; octavo; G/no-DJs; black spines with silver text; covers have rubbing edgewear spines slightly shaken; textblocks have age toning edgewear portions of title pages have been torn out pp 356 340. 1298566. Full-priced Rockville. Stanford University Press hardcover books
18741298280London: Bickers and Son 1874. First Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Three volume set; octavo; VG/no-DJs; brown spines with gold text; covers have rubbing sunning edgewear bindings are strong; textblocks have significant chipping and peeling around edges foxing around edges and sporadically throughout name stamped on verso of frontispiece page in Vol. I and on half title pages in Vols. II and III otherwise clean. <br /> <br /> <p> Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. Contact seller if you have any questions.<br /> <br /> <p> This book is part of the overstocked 15's kept in Room X atop one of the bookcases. 1298280. FP New Rockville Stock. Bickers and Son hardcover books
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. <br/><br/> London, William Heinemann, 1957. hardcover books
19559015896London: William Heinemann 1955. Hardcover. Fine condition / very good slipcase. The Yale Edition of the Papers of James Boswell. Edited By Frank Brady And Frederick A. Pottle. Illustrated. 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 slightly worn slipcase. <br/><br/> William Heinemann hardcover books
1951Embry 180419William Kimber 1951. First edition first printing. Fine in very good dust jacket with some darkening and light edgewear in mylar cover. William Kimber, 1951. First edition, first printing. unknown books
189186610NY:: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1891. Hardcover. B001JAZEC4 . Complete in six volumes. Volume I: Life 1709-1765. Volume II: Life 1765-1776. Volume III: Life 1776-1780. Volume IV: Life 1780-1784. Volume V: Tour to the Hebrides 1773 and Journey into North Wales 1774. Volume VI: Addenda Index Dicta Philosophi &c. Illustrations fold-out letter facsimiles and chart. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. First edition thus. Octavos bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spines top edges gilt. Moderate shelf wear and aging two of the volumes are starting to show separation at the hinges two of the volumes have small gouges to the cloth covered boards else all volumes are very good. . Harper & Brothers, hardcover books
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. <br/><br/> London, William Heinemann, 1951. hardcover books
1989Embry 92964Folio Society 1989. 3rd printing. Small owner's inked stamp else fine in fine faintly toned publisher's slipcase. Folio Society, 1989. 3rd printing. unknown books
192890179n.p.:: Privately Printed. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. Volume 3 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. Every other page is unopened along the top edge. Faded along the spine else very good in a very good edge worn faded along the spine slipcase. ; 179 pages . Privately Printed, hardcover books
192386735Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1923. Journal. Edited with an introduction by S. C. Roberts. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else very good in black cloth and red paper covered boards. No dust jacket. ; 110 pages . Cambridge University Press, unknown books
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. <br/><br/> hardcover books
192990178n.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 books
1785122700Sm. 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. § 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. Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover books
193190181n.p.:: Privately Printed. Good. 1931. Hardcover. Volume 11 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 521 of 570 copies. Every other page is unopened along the top edge. Faded along the spine else very good in a good edge worn and cracked along several edges with clear tape repairs slipcase. ; 311 pages . Privately Printed, hardcover books
193190180n.p.:: Privately Printed. Good. 1931. Hardcover. B00H857QIE . Volume 12 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. Some pages unopened along the top edge. Faded along the spine else very good in a good edge worn and cracked along several edges with clear tape repairs slipcase. ; 251 pages . Privately Printed, hardcover books
1891225467London. : Routledge. 1891. Quarter red cloth over pink cloth boards. . Very good spines lightly sunned some volumes slightly cocked. 8vo. Heavy set requires extra postage. Edited by Henry Morley. Portrait frontispieces by sir Joshua Reynolds. Routledge. hardcover books
19251104402 vols. Bath: George Bayntun 1925. 2 vols 8vo 1172 pp. With 576 Illustrations Facsimiles and Maps Including 13 Plates in Photogravure. Original three-quarter bright red morocco gilt spine tooled in gilt with decorative medallions five raised bands; t.e.g. A splendid set beautifully bound by Bayntun. § A perfect copy of a very good edition of this classic of English literature and history. George Bayntun hardcover books
122670London: William Pickering and Oxford: Talboys and Wheeler 1826. 4 vols. 8vo xxi 394; 416; 395; 428 pp. Original red buckram black labels engraved portrait of Boswell and Round Robin plate and a facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; a very good copy of the large-paper edition in the original binding. Bookplate of H.L. Hobart. Pickering 8pp. ads at front of vol. 1. § Limited to 50 copies on large paper CBEL II 1214; 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." William Pickering hardcover books
19521082998vo. New York: The Modern Library 1952. 8vo. xv 559 pp. Full blue cloth with title stamped in gilt to backstrip with original pictorial dust-jacket. Dust-jacket shows hints of edge wear price-clipped internally bright; very good. Signed in ink on the half-title by Ruth Moline. § First edition thus. “Few men in history have ever been known as intimately as Samuel Johnson. Famous in his own time for his wit and wisdom he has had the rare good fortune to gain a posthumous extension of personality and influence over a period of more than one hundred and sixty years. James Boswell’s boast that Johnson would ‘be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived’ has been borne out in the greatest biography in the English language.†The Modern Library hardcover books
1963Embry 196108Heritage Press 1963. Bookplate else fine in fine slipcases. Illustrated. Tan cloth with red labels. Lacking Sandglass. Heritage Press, 1963. hardcover books