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19071341725London: George Bell and Sons 1907. Hardcover. 12mo; G; burgundy spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth exterior shows slight exterior wear; some rubbing to joints; strong straight boards; text block edges have slight toning; previous owner's name to ffep; mild crack to front hinge and gutter at pp 64-65; light pencil inside; pp 475. 1341725. FP New Rockville Stock. George Bell and Sons hardcover books
1922WRCLIT76729Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press 1922. Large octavo. Gilt brown cloth t.e.g. Portrait and plates. Cloth a bit hand- soiled a couple of faint spots to rear endsheets; a good copy. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author in 1929 with a three line quotation. Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover books
1922WRCLIT38156Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press 1922. Large octavo. Gilt brown cloth t.e.g. Portrait and plates. First edition. Signed by the author on the title. Cloth slightly flecked small snag at crown of spine bookplate and residue of once tipped-in items on endsheet else a good copy. Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover books
1922WRCLIT34725Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press 1922. Large octavo. Gilt brown cloth t.e.g. Portrait and plates. First edition. With the author's 1955 inscription in response to a letter from an unidentified admirer. A carbon of the letter is laid in. Cloth lightly flecked light wear to corners and spine ends otherwise a very good bright copy. Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover books
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
1990132614Minneapolis MN: Walker Art Center 1990. First edition. Exhibition brochure for a show that ran September 23 through December 2 1990. Essay by Peter Boswell. Includes 6 color illustrations and a checklist of the works in the show. Single sheet folded three times to create 8 pages. A very good plus copy with some minor wear and some slight creasing to the corners. Uncommon. Walker Art Center unknown books
1941681New York: Hyperion Press / Harper and Brothers 1941. Hardcover. VG. White cloth. 76 pp. 16 color 27 bw repros. Hyperion Press / Harper and Brothers hardcover books
196062873London: William Heinemann 1960. First British editions as edited for this series of six first seven volumes of the journals each a limited edition see below for limitations. 8vo. Six volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 together with Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762 1951 448 pp.; 2 Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen 1952 428 pp.; 3 Boswell on the Grand Tour German and Switzerland 1764 1953 353 pp.; 4 Boswell on the Grand Tour Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766 1955 1/400 copies 383 pp.; 5 Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769 1957 1/400 copies 425 pp.; 6 Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 1960 1/350 copies 396 pp. Illustrated from old paintings sculpture portraits artifacts documents and correspondence plates maps and plans. Pottle edited these volumes the first three by himself the following two with Frederick Brady and the final one with William K. Wimsatt. Small book label on the front pastedown of each volume otherwise all very good to fine. All quarter vellum gilt-stamped decorated navy cloth leather spine labels London Journal chipped at lower corner t.e.g. others untrimmed publisher's slipcases lacking for "Holland" and "Wife" the others with rubbed or bumped corners. 9735. <br/><br/> William Heinemann hardcover books
198962874New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co 1989. First American edition as edited for this series of all volumes. 8vo. 13 volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 now first published from the original manuscript 1950 370 pp.; 2 Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen 1952 433 pp.; 3 Boswell on the Grand Tour Germany and Switzerland 1764 1953 357 pp.; 4 Boswell on the Grand Tour Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766 1955 356 pp.; 5 Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769 1956 390 pp.; 6 Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson LL.D 1773 1961 520 pp.; 7 Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 1959 396 pp.; 8 Boswell: The Ominous Years 1774-1776 1963 427 pp.; 9 Boswell in Extremes 1776-1778 1970 418 pp.; 10 Boswell Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782 1977 570 pp.; 11 Boswell the Applause of the Jury 1782-1785 1981 419 pp.; 12 Boswell: The English Experiment 1785-1789 1986 332 pp.; 13 Boswell the Great Biographer 1789-1795 1989 371 pp. Illustrated from old paintings sculpture portraits artifacts documents and correspondence plates maps and plans endpaper maps. Pottle edited the first 12 volumes the first three by himself the next nine with an associate from the list of editors above; the final volume was edited by Danziger and Frank Brady. Another volume "Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds" ed. by Frederick W. Hiles 1952 was issued as a part of the series but is not present here. Gift inscription on the front endpaper of "Applause" two volumes with bookplates on the front pastedown otherwise all very good to fine. All cloth and boards color pictorial dust jackets a little edgewear to several volumes two price-clipped several with small prices in ink. 9734. <br/><br/> McGraw-Hill Book Co hardcover books
1974WRCLIT78529New York: McGraw-Hill 1974. XIX1371PP. Small quarto. Cloth. Photographs. First edition. Faint thumb-tip size discoloration in upper margins of last few leaves otherwise very good or better in good dust jacket with discoloration around perimeter of rear panel and flap. A complement to Pottle's PRIDE & NEGLIGENCE in recording the history of the Boswell papers. OP. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1932034158Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1932. xviii 370p. colored front. b/w illus. deckle edges original cloth partially unopened. Harvard University Press unknown books
199728240Minneapolis: Walker Art Center 1997. First Edition. Quarto. Linen-backed glazed illustrated boards; 224pp; illus. Faint sticker residue to front board else about Fine; no dustjacket presumably as issued. Survey of the montage work of the eminent Berlin Dadaist Hanna Höch 1889-1978 including her daring Weimar-era anti-fascist collages. Walker Art Center unknown books
19402214NY: Art Digest 1940. Hardcover. Fair spine chipped and missing pieces. Boards. 48 pp. 28 bw repros. Includes literary contributions by Boswell Parker Alexander J. Wall Mark Eisner J. Frederick Larson. Biographical notes. Inscribed warmly by the artist from his home in New Hope Pa. to someone whose name has been erased. Scarce. Art Digest hardcover books
199393144London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1993. Hardcover. B000HL1GF0 . Complete in two volumes. Edited by Rodney Shewan. Third printing thus. Both volumes are near fine. Housed in a near fine slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
1945WRCLIT16996Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Co. 1945. Large octavo. Portrait and plates. Cloth t.e.g. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist. Backstrip a shade tanned else about fine in slipcase. Doubleday, Doran and Co. 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
19258132Bath: George Bayntun 1925 Quarto 10x7½ inches. Pp. xl 576 xv 577-1172. Illustrated with 576 illustrations facsimiles and map including 13 plates in photogravure. Extensive notes bibliography chronology index. Bound in three-quarter crimson morocco red cloth sides spines ruled in gilt gilt lettering and pictorial devises within compartments between raised bands. Bookplate on front pastedowns slight fading to front cloth of volume II. A very fine crisp set in a handsome binding. This is a wonderfully illustrated and invaluable edition of Boswell's classic biography of Johnson with hundreds of portraits of all the major players views facsimiles of letters and other writings etc. Volume I covers 1709 to March 18 1776; volume II covers March 19 1776 to December 13 1784. "Includes a wealth of carefully annotated pictures of various kinds. we congratulate publisher and author on the excellent idea of illustrating the greatest of biographers on an ample scale" Atheæum. George Bayntun 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
1938705London: Limited Editions Club 1938. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 1500 numbered copies designed by Oliver Simon and printed at the Curwen Press. Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the leather spine spine label stamped in gilt. Fading to spines otherwise in near fine condition. LEC Bibliography 103. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
19019023265London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1901. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound in half leather and cloth covered boards gilt ruled covers. Four raised bands on the spines. Spines are sunned stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities. Frontispieces and illustrations throughout. <br/><br/> J. M. Dent & Sons hardcover books
19242266262Oxford University Press 1924. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 1952-1970 printing. Includes original jacket with 388 titles listed on reverse. A few small jackets tears and minor loss from corners. 1924 Hard Cover. xv 1 559 1 pp. Bergen Evans's abridgment of Boswell's famous biographical work about Samuel Johnson which helped shape the style of biographies published thereafter. Oxford University Press 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
19351338948London: John Murray 1935. Hardcover. Octavo 10 vols.; VG-; contemporary three-quarter bindings of brown leather boards in marbled paper; bound by Root & Son with their stamp at verso of second free end paper; spines with raised bands gilt lettering and design in spine panels; mild shelf wear and scuffing; wear at joints; wear to spine crowns of vols. 5 and 8; upper edges gilt; marbled end papers; portrait and frontispieces offset; vol. 6 contains fold out facsimile letter; pages clean; shelved above Case 9 3/4. 1338948. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. John Murray hardcover books
1901302759London: J.M. Dent 1901. Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo. Bound in three quarter brown morocco and gilt spine t.e.g. by McDonald. Some rubbing. VG. Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo. J.M. Dent unknown books
19636932New York: The Heritage Press 1963 3 volumes. With marginal comments and markings from two copies annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Prepared for publication with an Introduction by Edward G. Fletcher. Frontis portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds George Willison and Robert Edge Pine. Brown cloth in marbled slipcases. Very slight darkening to foredges of slipcases else a very fine set. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. The Heritage Press hardcover books
