Abbot Herbert Vaughan Editor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. This copy was used as a college textbook. Prior owner's signature & address on front paste-down. Notes in endpapers and in margins of text not affecting legibility. Hardcover has blue cloth covers with gold lettering & designs, but no DJ. WIDELY REGARDED as the finest literary biography ever published, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (originally 13 volumes, circa 1790) reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities, and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature. This is the 1923 abridged & edited version in one volume prepared by Herbert Vaughan Abbot, Professor of English Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Copyright 1923. No ISBN nor LCCN. No printing info. No MSR. Prior Owner Name No Value.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Abridged and Edited); The Lake Library Edition. Beginning of looseness at the copyright page. Blue boards with gilt lettering.