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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine DJ (price clipped). First Edition. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. A clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is bright. No chips. No tears. No creases. No fading. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrations. The author is a pathologist by training and practice, more specifically a histopathologist. Ten essays on the afflictions of famous literary figures: 1) Boswell's Clap; 2) Swinburne's Masochism: Neuropathology and Psychopathology; 3) Lady Chatterley's What?; 4) Drowsed with the Fume of Poppies, Opium and John Keats; 5) Madness and Poetry: A Note on Collins, Cowper, and Smart; 6) Chekhov among the Doctors: The Doctor's Dilemma; 7) William Carlos Williams, M.D.: Physician as Poet; 8) The Earl of Rochester and Ejaculatio Praecox; 9) Thomas Shadwell: His Exitus Revis'd; 10) Did Socrates Die of Hemlock Poisoning? List of chapter notes/sources. Bound in the original gilt-lettered brown cloth. From the publisher: "Boswell's plight is but one [topic] explored here, as erudite and amusing pathologist William Ober shows how medical information and insights can illuminate and perhaps resolve certain literary problems." Keywords: James Boswell. Samuel Johnson. Medical history. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Near Fine DJ (price clipped). 8vo. xiv, 291pp.

Seller Inventory # 005297

Paperback. Condition: Original pictorial wraps. Cross, Helen Reid; & Daphne Macneile Dixon (illustrator). Revised edition. London: Trustees of Dr. Johnson's House, 1968. 5.5" wide by 8" tall. Trade paperback. Very Good condition. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, tight, and unmarked. A guide to the house (now a museum) where Dr. Johnson lived 1748-1759, and where he compiled his famous dictionary. With a poem by Claudine Currey. Frontispiece of the house, from a drawing by W. Monk. Includes a photo of the "Dictionary Attic" showing the heavy bombing damage caused by the 1940 Nazi Blitz. . Revised edition. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps. Illus. by Cross, Helen Reid; & Daphne Macneile Dixon. (ii), 21pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 002125

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Reprint of the 1902 original. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970. Square, tight, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with portraits. Original maroon cloth. Reprint of the 1902 original. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. 532pp.

Seller Inventory # 009910

Hardcover. Condition: Good, sound reading copy. First Printing of the First Edition. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. Square and tight. Boards are lightly soiled and worn at the extremities. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Frontispiece is a full-color, tissue-guarded portrait of Dr. Johnson by Reynolds. Eight other plates: James Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith, General Paoli, Fanny Burney, Mr. Piozzi, Mrs. Siddons, and Sir Joshua Reynolds. A charming play about Samuel Johnson, pioneering lexicographer and the greatest conversationalist of the 18th century. By the author of The Amenities of Book Collecting. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press (Smith 586). Original green-cloth spine and bright red paper-covered boards. Printed paper labels on the front cover and spine. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Good, sound reading copy. 4to. xvii, 120pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 009768

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. From John Middendorf's review: "A thorough analysis of the quotations in the DICTIONARY as expressions of the essential Johnson." Introduction: The DICTIONARY as Literature. Ten chapters. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index of Words Cited. Index of Authors Cited. General Index. Bound in the original silver-stamped red cloth. Complete with a gorgeous dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. xiii, 303pp.

Seller Inventory # 017746

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. New York: Vanguard Press. , 1930. Tight, unmarked copy. Light foxing to blank endpapers. No ink name or bookplate. Text is clean. Introduction. Brief biography of Dr. Johnson's early life. The conversations are arranged chronologically from 1763, when Boswell and Johnson first met, until Johnson's last days in 1784. No index. Original yellow gold cloth, with brown lettering. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. xx, 318pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 012519

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First U. S. Edition. Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co., 1990. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good jacket (one shallow crease). NO chips. NO tears. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. All pages are fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Illustrated with 5 maps. This is a day-by-day history of the events in Samuel Johnson's life. It is packed with fascinating details on his writings, friendships, famous "jaunts," etc. Included is a list of 248 members of Johnson's circle, with brief biographical data on his friends, acquaintances, and others who touched his life at some point. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Whether the reader needs to check a single fact or wishes to gain a sense of Johnson's life, writings and friendships over a period of months or years, this detailed chronology is arranged in such a way that it can be readily consulted.". First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xv, 136pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 015797

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. 1968 reprint of the 1910 original. New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Sharp corners. With a frontispiece portrait and 14 other illustrations. From the preface: "[I]n his day [Robert Dodsley] was a man who rose to considerable literary eminence, and introduced a dozen or more men of front rank to the public; and the following pages embrace the attempt to give a deserved prominence to the man who was a prot�g� of Defoe and Pope, Dr Johnson's friend and 'patron,' and the publisher for Gray, Sterne, and Edmund Burke." Contains 14 chapters: 1) Birth & Early Years to 1735; 2) At Tully's Head, 1735-1739; 3) Theatrical Work, 1737-1749; 4) Some Publications and Their Authors, 1741-1747; 5) Dodsley and Dr Johnson; 6) Dodsley's Band of Poets and the Collection of Poems; 7) Dodsley, Gray and Horace Walpole; 8) The Oeconomy of Human Life; 9) 'The World'; 10) The Production of Cleone: Dodsley and Garrick; 11) At the Time of Retirement: Burke, Goldsmith, and Sterne; 12) Dodsley and the Trade; 13) Dodsley's Fables; 14) Last Days. Includes a comprehensive bibliography of Dodsley's works that fills 73 densely-printed pages. Four appendices. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny gold. 1968 reprint of the 1910 original. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xiv, 407pp.

Seller Inventory # 017238

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good jacket. Chappell, Warren (jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition (so stated). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Near Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($2.75). A small piece of the jacket is missing along the rear turn-in fold. NOT too noticeable because the jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Bright, square and tight. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name blindstamped on first 3 leaves. 1946. "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page, with NO indication of any other printing. Frontispiece is a color illustration of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Bound in the original gilt-stamped cinnamon (i.e. dark orange) cloth. [NOTE: beware of copies in blue cloth offered as first editions; they are book club]. Complete with dust jacket. "[T]he finest series of historical detective stories ever written. in scholarship, humor, flavor, and compelling detail." -- QUEEN'S QUORUM 100. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Goldstone 786. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 MIDNIGHTS, pp. 195-96. . First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good jacket. Illus. by Chappell, Warren (jacket design). xi, 258pp.

Seller Inventory # 017752

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First U. S. Edition. Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co., 1990. A gorgeous, pristine copy. Brand New condition in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Illustrated with 5 maps. This is a day-by-day history of the events in Samuel Johnson's life. It is packed with fascinating details on his writings, friendships, famous "jaunts," etc. Included is a list of 248 members of Johnson's circle, with brief biographical data on his friends, acquaintances, and others who touched his life at some point. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Whether the reader needs to check a single fact or wishes to gain a sense of Johnson's life, writings and friendships over a period of months or years, this detailed chronology is arranged in such a way that it can be readily consulted.". First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. xv, 136pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 015796

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good jacket (price clip). Chappell, Warren (jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition (so stated). New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (partially price-clipped). NOT a library discard. A square, reasonably tight copy. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Text is unmarked with NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing with "First Edition" so stated on the copyright page. Illustrated with 8 plates. Folding maps of Edinburgh (printed on both front and reverse sides; unfold to 19" wide by 9" tall). End paper maps of London. Based on James Boswell's private papers now at Yale University, this volume covers the five active years following his marriage in 1769. Among the topics are Boswell's law practice and growing reputation as an advocate, the start of his family, the trips to London that triggered his resolve to write the biography, etc. Includes Boswell's account of his role defending a client charged with stealing sheep, a hanging offense in 18th century Scotland. The seventh volume in the series of The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell. Index. Bound in the original blue boards with a black cloth spine stamped in shiny gold. From the dust jacket: "This newest addition covers the five years following Boswell's marriage in 1769 -- crowded, active years in which he starts a family, acquires reputation as an advocate, and also renews his literary ambitions and labours.". First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good jacket (price clip). Illus. by Chappell, Warren (jacket design). 8vo. xxix, 396pp.

Seller Inventory # 016068

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Edition. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. Near Fine condition (spine uniformly and very lightly sun-faded -- just a shade). The spine is square and flat with NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO foxing. THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Volume Fifty-Six (Vol. 56, LVI), Fourth (4th) Quarter, 1962. 1300 copies printed. Contains: DUKEDOM LARGE ENOUGH III : THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by David A. Randall; SAMUEL JOHNSON'S EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE (1765) by Donald D. Eddy; plus a contribution by G. Thomas Tanselle; etc. Includes the title-page (laid-in) and index (bound-in) for the whole of Volume 56. Composed and printed by the Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine. Bound in the original wraps. 6.25" wide by 9.5" tall. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. (xiv), pp. 397-540. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 020976

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. London: The Collector Ltd., 1981. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. The Book Collector, Volume 30 No. 2. Summer 1981. Bound in the original stiff wraps. 5.75" wide by 8.75" tall. Includes SAMUEL JOHNSON AND BISHOP BERKELEY by Geoffrey Keynes. Also Mirjam M. Foot on bookbinding. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 024111

Hardcover. Condition: Publisher's brown cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (8.95). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. 7.25" wide by 9.5" tall. Very Good condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Well illustrated with 99 old prints, portraits, document and manuscript facsimiles, etc. Chronology. Bibliographical note. List of Illustrations. Index. First printing, with complete row (with 1 present) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "He was an extraordinary bundle of paradoxes, and perhaps it is this that makes him so perennially interesting. Loving husband and father, dissipated whore chaser; conscientious lawyer, drunken buffoon; writer of tedious doggerel, and of one of the finest biographies in the English-language: what is one to make a man like this? His copious journals illuminate the paradox, showing us the narcissistic dreamer of glory (Guards officer? politician? fashionable wit?) and the extrovert diarist whose relentless human curiosity drove him on to observe and record, with flashes of insight and vivid descriptive touches, the people he met and the life they lived." Keywords: Life of Samuel Johnson. Temple Bar. David Garrick. Lord Auchinleck. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's brown cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped (8.95). 128pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 002901

Hardcover. Condition: Black cloth spine /gray boards. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (25.00). First American Edition. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. Fine condition in Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Keywords: Samuel Johnson. Lexicography. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth spine /gray boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (25.00). 8vo. xxii, 351pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 002110

Paperback. Condition: New. First Separate Edition. New York: The New York Public Library, 1963. A beautiful, pristine copy -- obviously never read. Brand New condition. Sharp corners. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. NO tears. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square, and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp. 7" wide by 10" tall. With 2 illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson from 1786. First Separate Edition, reprinted from the February/March 1963 issue of the BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. Footnotes. Index. Bound in the original tan pictorial wraps. First Separate Edition. Softcover. New. 59pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 015792

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good jacket. Aulicino, Robert (jacket design) (illustrator). Second printing. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. Near Fine condition in a Near Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed, with a few small chips and short closed tears. Bright, shiny, tight. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Hardcover. 6.75" wide by 9.25" tall. Delightful and fascinating history of these documents and Ralph Heyward Isham's titanic 25 year struggle to reunite them. A scholarly work that reads like a thriller. With 46 illustrations. Six appendices. Genealogical Tables. Index. Bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in black on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "James Boswell, the great biographer of Johnson, accumulated a huge mass of papers. He kept a daily journal, corresponded with dozens of literary figures of his age, and kept most of his correspondence including copies of letters he sent. This is the story of the 'treasure' of Auchinleck -- one of the most fascinating and varied collections of eighteenth-century papers ever assembled. For more than a century, the papers were believed to have been lost or destroyed in an attempt to hide Boswell's more candid and 'unpublishable' self-revelations About 1925 the staggering task of acquiring and reuniting Boswell's scattered archives was undertaken by an American collector, the late Ralph Heyward Isham The accomplishment of his task after twenty-five years of struggle at the cost of near impoverishment is an epic feat of literary salvage In these lively, colorful pages Buchanan explains what really happened to the papers after Boswell's death and how they were dealt with by successive generations of the Boswell family.". Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Very Good jacket. Illus. by Aulicino, Robert (jacket design). xxii, 371pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 015810

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1952. Very Good condition. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO foxing. THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Volume Forty-Six (Vol. 46, XLVI), First (1st) Quarter, 1952. 1300 copies printed. Contains: JOHN MARTYN, PRINTER TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY by Leona Rostenberg; THE BOOK TRADE AND THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF: 1800-1804 by Rollo G. Silver; plus a contribution by William B. Todd; etc. Composed and printed by the Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine. Bound in the original wraps. 6.25" wide by 9.5" tall. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. (iv), pp. 1-86. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 020967

Paperback. Condition: Original pictorial wraps. First Printing of the First Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984. 5.5" wide by 8.25" tall. Trade paperback. As New condition. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, shiny, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Illustrated. Keywords: Samuel Johnson. . First Printing of the First Edition. Soft Cover. Original pictorial wraps. 574pp.

Seller Inventory # 002703

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Kelly, Felix (jacket art) (illustrator). Third printing of the 1977 original. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press, 1978. A gorgeous, pristine copy. Brand New condition in a Brand New dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO sun fading. NO tanning of the jacket (spine of jacket is still bright white!!). Bright, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 7.25" wide by 10.5" tall. Note that the LARGER FORMAT and TYPE SIZE of this 1978 third printing makes for easier reading when compared to the 1977 first printing. With 56 illustrations. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. From the pristine dust jacket: "Samuel Johnson encouraged his friends to keep journals, and with the exception of James Boswell, none of them made better use of his advice than Hester Thrale, the talented, witty, courageous woman who, following the death of Johnson's wife, became his closest female friend. Much of the story of the friendship between Johnson and the Thrales is told in a journal begun in 1766 by Hester Thrale to which she gave the name, the 'Family Book.' The 'Family Book' was intended as a chronological record of the growth, accomplishments, education, illnesses, travels, and diversions of the twelve children born of Hester Thrale's marriage to Henry Thale, a prosperous, cultivated London brewer and member of Parliament. It is soon transformed into an intimate account of her own daily life though the children continue to provide much of the drama, mostly tragic since only four of the twelve survived childhood. Despite her personal sorrows, Mrs. Thrale became one of the eighteenth century's most hospitable hostesses. Streatham Park, the Thrales' country house where Johnson lived for much of each year as a well-loved member of the family, drew many of the other cultural luminaries of the day, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Burney and his talented daughter Fanny, among others. Mary Hyde has used a wonderful narrative skill. drawing on a wide range of contemporary letters, journals, and biographies as well as much fresh, original research.". Third printing of the 1977 original. Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by Kelly, Felix (jacket art). xvii, 373pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 015791

Paperback. Condition: New. NOT a library discard; W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Thorsen, 1964. New and unread copy of the FIRST EDITION. NO owner's name or address label. Very mild age toning. This copy is from the publisher's surplus inventory which we acquired along with the magazine's archives -- now housed at the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Vol. XIV #6, Feb. 1964. Contains Jeff C. Dykes' "Tentative Bibliographic Check Lists of Western Illustrators #9" describing 92 works with W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton illustrations. Also has a bibliographical essay by Charles Alva Hoyt, "On Samuel Johnson, Who Wrote Against Scotland." COVER PHOTO OF THE LATE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. Charles Heartman's American Book Collector lasted 36 issues before publication ceased in 1935. In 1950, William B. Thorsen began a new magazine called The Amateur Book Collector. However, he soon received permission from Heartman's widow to change the name to American Book Collector. There were 233 issues published before its demise in 1976. A third incarnation of the American Book Collector, unrelated to the others, appeared in 54 issues between 1980 and 1987. . First Edition. Softcover. New. Illus. by NOT a library discard; W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 024964

Paperback. Condition: New. NOT a library discard; W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Thorsen, 1964. New and unread copy of the FIRST EDITION. NO owner's name or address label. Very mild age toning. This copy is from the publisher's surplus inventory which we acquired along with the magazine's archives -- now housed at the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Vol. XV #1, Sep. 1964. Contains Jeff C. Dykes' "Tentative Bibliographic Check Lists of Western Illustrators #14" describing 27 works with Philip R. Goodwin illustrations. Also has Thomas McDade's "The Corpse in the Library, A Brief Note on American Trial Publishing." Charles Heartman's American Book Collector lasted 36 issues before publication ceased in 1935. In 1950, William B. Thorsen began a new magazine called The Amateur Book Collector. However, he soon received permission from Heartman's widow to change the name to American Book Collector. There were 233 issues published before its demise in 1976. A third incarnation of the American Book Collector, unrelated to the others, appeared in 54 issues between 1980 and 1987. . First Edition. Softcover. New. Illus. by NOT a library discard; W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 024968

Paperback. Condition: New. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Thorsen, 1964. New and unread copy of the FIRST EDITION. NO owner's name or address label. Very mild age toning. This copy is from the publisher's surplus inventory which we acquired along with the magazine's archives -- now housed at the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Vol. XV #3, Nov. 1964. Contains Jeff C. Dykes' "Tentative Bibliographic Check Lists of Western Illustrators #16" describing 47 works with D. C. Hutchinson illustrations. Charles Heartman's American Book Collector lasted 36 issues before publication ceased in 1935. In 1950, William B. Thorsen began a new magazine called The Amateur Book Collector. However, he soon received permission from Heartman's widow to change the name to American Book Collector. There were 233 issues published before its demise in 1976. A third incarnation of the American Book Collector, unrelated to the others, appeared in 54 issues between 1980 and 1987. . First Edition. Softcover. New. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 024970

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good EX-LIBRARY. No jacket. First Edition. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1955. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. A solid reading/reference copy. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1955 First Edition of this classic study. Contents: Chronological Table. Five chapters: 1) Johnson's Dictionary and Lexicographical Tradition I; 2) The Composition and Publication of The Plan of a Dictionary; 3) Lord Chesterfield and Dr. Johnson; 4) The Early Editions of the Dictionary; 5) Johnson's Dictionary and Lexicographical Tradition II. List of chapter notes. Index. Bound in the original brown cloth, stamped in gold over black panels on the spine and front cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. viii, 256pp.

Seller Inventory # 017749

Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. First Edition. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. Fine condition. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO foxing. THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Volume Fifty-Seven (Vol. 57, LVII), Fourth (4th) Quarter, 1963. 1300 copies printed. Contains: THE TEXT OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY by James B. Meriwether; plus a contribution by Edwin Wolf 2nd; etc. Includes the title-page (laid-in) and index (bound-in) for the whole of Volume 57. Composed and printed by the Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine. Bound in the original wraps. 6.25" wide by 9.25" tall. First Edition. Softcover. Fine condition. (xii), pp. 403-506. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 020978

Hardcover. Condition: New condition. Dust Jacket Condition: New dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Stanford, California: Stanford General Books, 2008. NEW in a NEW dust jacket. Near PERFECT condition. Shows just a bit of mild shelfwear (like you sometimes find in any new book store). Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. List of chapter notes/bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John. The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others included are the eighteenth-century Scot James Bruce, nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton, author Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger (best known of twentieth-century British explorers), Sylvia Pankhurst (crusading journalist and daughter of the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst), and the contemporary Irish traveller Dervla Murphy. The author also considers the beginnings of anthropology and the variations of quest narrative in modern travel writing.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. (ix), 174pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 029319

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Edition. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959. A handsome copy of the first printing. Near Fine condition. 125 entries. Foreword by Herbert Cahoon. Portraits annotated by Herman Liebert. Illustrated with an autograph manuscript facsimile as frontispiece (Life of Pope) and 2 other full-page manuscript facsimiles, and four portraits in the text. 8.75" wide by 12" tall. List of works cited. Index. Bound in the original string-tied, tan wraps, stamped in reddish-brown. Yapp edges. Consisting of items from the world-famous Hyde collection, as well as items loaned by James Clifford, Richard Gimbel, Robert Metzdorf, the Rosenbach Foundation, Yale, etc. Full title: Samuel Johnson, LL D, (1709-1784), An Exhibition of First Editions, Manuscripts, Letters, and Portraits to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of His Birth, and the 200th Anniversary of the Publication of His Rasselas, September 22 - November 28, 1959. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Near Fine condition. 42pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 022877

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good jacket. Aulicino, Robert (jacket design) (illustrator). First printing of the First UK Edition. London: Heinemann, 1975. Uncommon First UK printing with "First published in Great Britain 1975" on the copyright page. Very Good condition in a Very Good (lightly rubbed/soiled) dust jacket. NOT price clipped (�8 net). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Delightful and fascinating history of these documents and Ralph Heyward Isham's titanic 25 year struggle to reunite them. A scholarly work that reads like a thriller. With 46 illustrations. Six appendices. Genealogical Tables. Footnotes. Index. Hardcover. 6.75" wide by 9.25" tall. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in gold on the spine. "James Boswell, the great biographer of Johnson, accumulated a huge mass of papers. He kept a daily journal, corresponded with dozens of literary figures of his age, and kept most of his correspondence including copies of letters he sent. This is the story of the 'treasure' of Auchinleck -- one of the most fascinating and varied collections of eighteenth-century papers ever assembled. For more than a century, the papers were believed to have been lost or destroyed in an attempt to hide Boswell's more candid and 'unpublishable' self-revelations About 1925 the staggering task of acquiring and reuniting Boswell's scattered archives was undertaken by an American collector, the late Ralph Heyward Isham The accomplishment of his task after twenty-five years of struggle at the cost of near impoverishment is an epic feat of literary salvage In these lively, colorful pages Buchanan explains what really happened to the papers after Boswell's death and how they were dealt with by successive generations of the Boswell family.". First printing of the First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good jacket. Illus. by Aulicino, Robert (jacket design). xxii, 371pp.

Seller Inventory # 015896

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine jacket. Aulicino, Robert (jacket design) (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped ($14.95). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean, and unmarked. First printing with complete number row (123456789) on the copyright page. Delightful and fascinating history of these documents and Ralph Heyward Isham's titanic 25 year struggle to reunite them. A scholarly work that reads like a thriller. With 46 illustrations. Six appendices. Genealogical Tables. Index. Hardcover. 6.75" wide by 9.25" tall. Bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in black on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "James Boswell, the great biographer of Johnson, accumulated a huge mass of papers. He kept a daily journal, corresponded with dozens of literary figures of his age, and kept most of his correspondence including copies of letters he sent. This is the story of the 'treasure' of Auchinleck -- one of the most fascinating and varied collections of eighteenth-century papers ever assembled. For more than a century, the papers were believed to have been lost or destroyed in an attempt to hide Boswell's more candid and 'unpublishable' self-revelations About 1925 the staggering task of acquiring and reuniting Boswell's scattered archives was undertaken by an American collector, the late Ralph Heyward Isham The accomplishment of his task after twenty-five years of struggle at the cost of near impoverishment is an epic feat of literary salvage In these lively, colorful pages Buchanan explains what really happened to the papers after Boswell's death and how they were dealt with by successive generations of the Boswell family.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine jacket. Illus. by Aulicino, Robert (jacket design). xxii, 371pp.

Seller Inventory # 015894

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Edition, Number 20 of 50 copies. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Lacks spine label else Very Good condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Number 20 of 50 copies, "Especially prepared for the use of those about whom (at the moment of going to press) the editor is enthusiastic." BOSWELL AND THE GIRL FROM BOTANY BAY, by F. A. Pottle was first published as a separate book [The Viking Press, 1937] and limited to 500 copies. A less expensive alternative is this anthology, where it is included with the addition of new commentary (4 pages) by Alexander Woollcott. This printing of BOSWELL AND THE GIRL FROM BOTANY BAY has the complete text of the original, except for Pottle's preface, end notes, and three illustrations. Also in this anthology [Woolcott's Second Reader] are the following: PREFACE TO "ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS" by Shih Nai-an; THE LADY'S MAID'S BELL by Edith Wharton; JOE by Gustav Eckstein; A CHRISTMAS GARLAND by Max Beerbohm; THE PORTRAIT OF M. M. by D. H. Lawrence; TWO FRIENDS by Willa Cather; CAKES AND ALE, OR, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD by W. S. Maugham; THE GOLDEN AGE by Kenneth Grahame. Original green cloth. First Edition, Number 20 of 50 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. 558pp.

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