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1930521Published 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
197038011NY:: McGraw-Hill. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0070690596 . Part of The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell series. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 418 pages . McGraw-Hill, hardcover books
1922127486Garden City: Gabriel Wells / Doubleday Page 1922. First printing of this edition. Octavo ten volumes. One of 785 numbered copies this being No. 122. Publisher's quarter cream vellum brown paper boards paper spine labels brown paper dust jackets with paper spine labels gilt top page edges page fore-edges and bottom page edges deckle. Lacking extra spine labels commonly laid in each volume. <br/><br/>The Temple Bar Edition is unique to the surplus of Johnsonian scholarship combining knowledge of Johnson's family history photographs from the Adam collection in Buffalo among the rarest and most valuable Johnsonian collections and research enveloping Johnson and his relations to other writers scholars and clergyman. <br/><br/>Toned spines and large bookplates on the front pastedowns all but one volume the same volume with a neat split to the front hinge and a repair to the jacket spine label of volume one else Near Fine. <br/><br/>An elegant set. Shipping billed at cost. Gabriel Wells / Doubleday, Page unknown books
198446400New York: Doubleday & Company 1984. Very Good /Very Good . New York: Doubleday & Company 1984. Stated First Edition. Octavo 21cm; 300pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $14.95 price intact; boards quarter-bound in green and red cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Jacket bumped and scuffed with tears forming at spine ends; spine flaps and verso lightly toned. Boards bumped at spine ends; some fading. Binding sound. Top edge of textblock foxed; small stain at first free endsheet; interior pages clean. Overall Very Good or better. Signed and inscribed by the author at first free endsheet. <br /> <br /> Inscription reads “To Joy I hope you enjoy these pieces despite the consistent sarcasm toward your Phillies. Good luck and best wishes Tom Boswell.â€. Doubleday & Company unknown
1984007160Doubleday 1984. Book. Fine. Cloth. Presentation By Author. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.First Edition.$14.95 on flap.Author's second Book.Rare Presentation Copy."To Harold Saylor I hope you enjoy these pieces especially all of those about your Phillies and Orioles.Very Best wishes Tom Boswell." Wonderful Copy. Doubleday Hardcover
1984007160Doubleday 1984. Book. Fine. Cloth. Presentation By Author. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.First Edition.$14.95 on flap.Author's second Book.Rare Presentation Copy."To Harold Saylor I hope you enjoy these pieces especially all of those about your Phillies and Orioles.Very Best wishes Tom Boswell." Wonderful Copy. Doubleday Hardcover books
1995mon0003904918Scarecrow Press 6/13/1995 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Good. 0.9488 9.1614 7.5197. Scarecrow Press hardcover
1990Q-0962506907History West Pub Co 1990-09-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! History West Pub Co hardcover
1999Q-188737437XLark Books 1999-12-31. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Lark Books paperback
1997x-0521582253Cambridge Univ Pr 1997. Hardcover. New. 251 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
193616338New York: Viking Press 1936. First edition 8vo pp. xviii435; folding map; 4 plates of facsimiles and 1 illus. in the text; spine of jacket slightly darkened else fine. The full version of Boswell's journal of his memorable trip with Johnson here published for the first time. <br/><br/> Viking Press unknown books
1980Q-0226067106University of Chicago Press 1980-01-01. Library Binding. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of Chicago Press unknown
1998Q-0669452610Heath Mcdougal Littell 1998. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Heath Mcdougal Littell hardcover
1952101120McGraw-Hill Publishing Company 1952 Including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen. Of this edition 250 copies have been prepared for members of the Book Collectors Society; this is number 3. Bound in top-grain cowhide. Marbled end papers. Gilt top edge. Deckled fore edge. Includes map of Holland. With index. Attached silk bookmark. Faint rubbing to spine ends. Tight square binding. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company hardcover
198389217Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1983. Full Leather. Near Fine. Three volume set. 1494pp. Index. Bound into full blue leather with gilt design lettering and foredges. 3 raised bands to spine moire endpapers silk ribbons. Published as part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. There is a little discoloration to the moire endpaper edges as can often happen in these. Notes from the editors pamphlet included. Illustrated with portraits of leading figures of Dr. Johnson's day. Spine of volume 2 only is a bit faded. The Franklin Library unknown
19812092902144201646Misuzushobo 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Misuzushobo paperback
1969mon0004141444Easton Press 1969-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . 4-volume set. uniformly bound in full leather with gilt decoration. near fine copies. Easton Press hardcover
19831262438264Franklin 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 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. Boards show bumping interior pages clean and unmarked.Page edges gilt. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Franklin hardcover
1999SONG0300076819Yale University Press 1999-01-11. First Edition US First Printing. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.50x1.00x9.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Yale University Press hardcover
1998916T59London: Tango Books 1998. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine. 10" by 10". Korky Paul. A smart first edition of this very scarce whimsical pop-up book for children. First edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with one full colour pop-up scene with ten pull tabs and one spinning dial. Collated complete and in perfect working condition. When the purple mountain monster leaves his cave one dark night he has a most surprising adventure and make a special friend. Written by Donna Boswell a British children's author. Illustrated by Hamish Vigne Christie "Korky" Paul a British illustrator of children's books. In the original pictorial paper covered boards. Externally very smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot or handling mark. All pop-up and moveable features are in perfect working condition. Previous owner's small bookplate to the front pastedown. Near Fine Tango Books hardcover
1956134575Baghdad: Iraq Natural History Museum 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A complete three set newly bound in a dark blue hardback binding lettered in gilt along the spine. Original covers are sewn in at the rear. Firm and square sharp corners strong joints. Contents crisp fresh and tight. No pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. From the personal library of the bird artist Martin Woodcock. Thus the endpaper shows his signature at the upper right corner. In addition one of the authors Charles Boswell has signed the title-page. Thus a very nice book with a significant provenance. Iraq Natural History Museum hardcover
1936977H23New York; London: The Viking Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7.5". None. The first limited edition of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides housed in the original slipcase with map plates and text from Boswell"s original notes. In the original publisher' quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards housed in the original slipcase. This is a limited edition of this work being copy number six hundred and fourteen of seven hundred and ninety copies. Illustrated with one folding map and four plates. Collated complete.First published posthumously in 1785 this first limited 1936 edition rejuvenated interest by presenting a text derived directly from Boswell"s notes. In 1773 Boswell persuaded his friend Samuel Johnson already famed for his Dictionary to travel with him through the Highlands and Hebrides of Scotland visiting places such as St Andrews Aberdeen Inverness and the isles of Skye Coll and Mull. This work was penned from the diary that Boswell kept during the tour and was published after Johnson's death in 1784.Boswell and Johnson met in 1763 when Johnson was fifty-four and they became fast friends. Their friendship resulted in the influential biography 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'.This limited edition was edited with a preface and notes by Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennet. In the original publisher' quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally very smart. Spine slightly faded. One or two very slight handling marks to boards. The odd spot to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Slipcase smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to paper. The odd very slight handling mark to boards Very slight loss to extremities of spine label. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to rough cut fore edge heavier to first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed The Viking Press; William Heinemann, Ltd. hardcover
1981Q-0070391149McGraw-Hill 1981-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! McGraw-Hill hardcover
1999Q-0935640614Walker Art Center 1999-11-02. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Walker Art Center hardcover
1993572936New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Slim stapled wrappers. Four volumes as issued in a printed cardboard slipcase. All four volumes are fine the slipcase is a little rubbed at the extremities and is very good or better. Issued by the publisher to promote four then new novels. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
