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192479020London:: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Limited 1924. elegant full mottled calf with elaborately gilt-decorated spines t.e.g. by Morrell Binder. . A few minor scuffs to the bindings: clean tight and sound. 8vo. Illustrated from engravings. Preface by Clement K. Shorter. Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, Limited, unknown
1891161801London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1891. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. octavo. full leather 527pp. Volume II only. Bright red full leather binding with raised bands at spine gilt decorations & black leather spine label All edges marbled & marbled end papers. Bright gilt device of Scotch College Melbourne on front board. A very nice example of a late Victorian Australian School Prize binding Swan Sonnenschein & Co. hardcover
1990mon0003705113Folio Society 1990-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Folio Society hardcover
18844849624George Bell and Sons 1884. Volume 1-4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Larger blue cloth 8vo with white cloth quarter binding. Gilt lettering within a simple border on backstrip. Lightly bumped corners and minor shelf wear. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Interior is secure clean and clear save for some foxing. Contains several plates. Untrimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item4200grams ISBN: George Bell and Sons hardcover
1831002021London England: John Murray 1831. First Thus . Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is a New Edition with numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croker; spine with raised bands 6 compartments elaborately blind stamped in gold including 2 compartments for title and volume number; exterior front and rear boards with fine rolled tooling; inside of covers with tooled dentelles; front and rear paste downs and first free end papers of hand marbled paper; all volumes with some slight rubbing on raised bands and along edges of spines; 8vo. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
1892429993London : George Bell 1892. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. London : George Bell hardcover
184054916New York: Alexander V. Blake Publishers 1840. A New Edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. xiii ii 563 566 12pp. Original full leather boards with gilt lettering and ruling on dark brown labels of spine; raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Samuel Johnson in volume one and a frontispiece of Johnson with facsimile note of Boswell in volume two both with tissue guards. New edition with numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croker. With appendices at rear of both volumes and an index at rear of volume two. Contains twelve pages of publisher's advertisements at rear of volume two. Bindings with some medium scuffing along edges. Some light staining and faint penciled cross on verso of first volume. Light offsetting on front cover of volume two light staining and indentation on back cover here. Small bookplate on inside cover of volume one. Alexander V. Blake, Publishers hardcover
50126854like new. unknown
1933020320London: The Limited Editions Club 1933. Solid copy in three volumes. Unmarked tight and square. limited to 1500 copies of which this is #611. Red labels with gold lettering on spine. Brown cloth sunned moderately on spines. Vol 3 has light discoloration to top board. One of the early publications of this hallowed club. . First Thus. Hardccover. Very Good to Very Good Plus/No Jacket as issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Limited Editions Club
1900434076London : Macmillan 1900. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good copy in gilt-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine and panel edges somewhat stained bumped and rubbed as with age. Some browning to the pages. Remains in good condition overall. Physical description; 3 volumes ; 23 cm. Subjects; Johnson Samuel 1709-1784. Johnson Samuel 1709-1784 Biography. Lexicographers Great Britain ; Biography. Authors English 18th century ; Biography. London : Macmillan hardcover
2006mon0000078893Clearway Logistics Phase 1a 2006-07-01. Paperback. New. 3.9848 in x 22.3858 in x 15.0000 in. Clearway Logistics Phase 1a paperback
192569333Bath UK: George Bayntun 1925. Newly edited edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 1172pp. Quarto 24 cm 3/4 red leather with pale green cloth raised bands and gilt stamping on the spines. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed and subtly sunned. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Presentation bookplates awarding diligent study with the seal of Harvard University in New England on the front pastedowns. The awardee is Roberto Lee Walker- most likely American physicist Robert Lee Walker 1919-2005 who matriculated at Harvard in 1937 and transferred a year later to the University of Chicago. After a brief time there as a graduate student he joined the Manhattan Project. He also worked at Los Alamos. After the war he continued his graduate work at Cornell earning his PhD in 1948. He joined the Caltech faculty in 1949 as assistant professor becoming associate professor in 1953 full professor in 1959 and emeritus professor in 1981. He died in Tesuque New Mexico. Newly edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. With 576 illustrations facsimiles and maps including 13 plates in photogravure. A handsome edition profusely illustrated of this famous biography. George Bayntun unknown
17912506006Henry Baldwin 1791. first. hardcover. very good. First edition first issue. Two volumes leather. Engraved portrait frontis after Sir Joshua Reynolds in the first volume. Second volume illustrated with two plates of Dr. Johnson's handwriting in facsimile. Both volumes in very good condition minor foxing to pages some rubbing to edges. Housed in custom-made slipcase with insert very good. Henry Baldwin unknown
63789The Navarre Society London 1924. XXXII434;VII480;VII578p. Original burgundy cloth with gilt embossed portrait on front cover. Spine with gilt title and gilded fleurs de lys. Upper edges publisher gilt stained. Lower and fore edge uncut. Ex libris C.J. Chislett glued to paste-down endpapers. Lower and fore edge rust stained. Pencil markings and annotations in Dutch. Vol.I: Front cover stained. Vol.II: Back cover stained. Requires extra shipping costs: weight > 3 Kg. This edition has been printed by the Riverside Press Edinburgh from type specially cast and 2000 copies have been printed on paper of fine quality for the Navarre society. hardcover
1926126808J M Dent & Sons Ltd 1926. Leather. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1926 J.M. Dent 3 volume extra illustrated set bound in 3/4 leather by Bayntun. Tight bindings patterned end papers top edges gilt. Numerous extra plates and illustrations. Light fox speckling to fore edges. 5 hub spines. Please email for photos. J M Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
198466789US: Franklin Library 1984. Full Leather. About fine. Full leather. Original full leather gilt titles and tooling to covers and spine all edges gilt raised bands silk ribbon bookmark bound in.<br /> From the Great Books series by Franklin Library.<br /> . Franklin Library unknown
1963055723New York: Heritage Press 1963. With marginal comments and markings from two copies annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Prepared for publication with an introduction by Edward G. Fletcher. 3 vols. complete lviii 466; 486; 473p. colored front. b/w facs. tiitlepage of the 1791 London edition original brown cloth with the upper spine labels. In the three original publisher's stiff board marbled paper slipcases. Heritage Press unknown
1931056767<p>New York: Modern Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1931. 1st Modern Library Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket first printing of this Modern Library Giant edition as stated on copyright page the beige cloth has moderate brown discoloration on the spine and along the top edge moderate tanning to the blank end-papers and a small damp-mark at the bottom corner of the first and last few pages the book is quite presentable the binding is clean and tight and the contents are fine the jacket has edge-chipping tanning to the spine and surface-wear along the spine-folds a damp-mark is present on the rear flap-fold and an internal short tape-mend has been made on the top edge please see our photos of this scarce edition ; 1200 pages .</p> Modern Library hardcover
184379305New York NY.: Alexander V. Blake Publisher. Very Good. 1843. Leather. Ex-Library with the usual markings. The books in this 2 Volume set are both hard-bound in full leather with gilt stamped leather labels on the spines. The covers show scuffing and soiling edge-wear and rubbing to the joints corners and spine-ends. The hinges are cracked and the text-blocks are loosening. The contents are bright and leigble but with scattered foxing throughout. . Alexander V. Blake, Publisher hardcover
185869702New York: Derby & Jackson 1858. New Edition with Numerous Additions and Notes. Leather Bound. 468; 479; 452; 452pp. Duodecimo 19 cm 3/4 leather with marbled paper over boards gilt tooled spines and red leather spine labels. Marbled text block edges and endpapers. Light rubbing to the board edges and a bit more to the boards themselves. Underlying boards just starting to peek through at a few of the corners. Contemporary owner's name in pen on the front flyleaves. Stitching very occasionally visible in the inside margins. Books very sturdy. A handsome set of this famous biography. Derby & Jackson unknown
183543407London: John Murray 1835. Near Fine. Small 8vo. 17cm various paginations plates and illustrations half mid--century polished calf over marlbed boards with spines in six compartments extra gilt decorations in the panels crimson and brown morocco labels top edges gilt marbled endpapers bookseller ticket of D.P. Elder and Morgan Shephard of San Francisco on each volume's rear endpaper Pottle 92. Croker's second edition which reprints the original 100 letters from Johnson that Croker brought to light in 1831 with his first Boswell's Johnson. Pottle refers to this set as the first illustrated edition. A very charming example of the seminal biography one of the high spots of western literature. John Murray unknown
1024813746.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Boswell2v<p>London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. Ltd.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons c. late 19th century. Two volumes small octavo 4¾ × 6¾ in.</p><p>Handsomely bound in full leather with gilt spine titles gilt device stamped to the front covers gilt top edges and silk ribbon markers. Complete with engraved portrait frontispieces in both volumes.</p><p>Condition: Very Good. Bindings tight hinges sound and interiors exceptionally clean with no foxing. Leather shows only minor rubbing to extremities; gilt remains bright. Previous owner's bookplates present in each volume. A well-preserved deluxe binding set of Boswell's classic biography of Samuel Johnson attractive both as a collectible and as a reading copy.</p> Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. hardcover
1867mon0003879071George Routledge & Sons 1867T. hardcover. Very Good. . 5-volume set uniformly bound in half-leather with raised bands and gilt decoration on the spines marbled boards marbled edges and endpapers. covers show minor wear and rubbing to the extremities private library label at the foot. pages lightly tanned and clean. George Routledge & Sons hardcover