Boswell James Illus (27 results)

Condition: Good. 1961. Seventh Impression. 609 pages. Dust jacket over brown cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Previous owner's inscription to endpapers. Boards have light edge wear with minor cor…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First edition thus. 7 x 10 in. Half red morocco with marbled paper boards. Gilt upper text block. Limited edition #323/2000. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; like new except the spine leather is a touch sunned. Leather supple, all else like new. Original slipcase is very good, label a touch foxed, a b…

Comb Binding. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). N.d. [First Edition, c. late 1930s]. Collection of songs (with vocal scores) collected by the left-wing activist, Frida Stewart (1910-1996), and pub. for The Basque Children's Committee in aid of refugees from the Spanish Civil War. Not dated (First Edn…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. With marginal comments and markings from two copies annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi.; 3 volumes in very good slipcases; brown c w/gilt titles on red; [5], viii-lviii, [5], 2-466; [7], 2-486, [2]; [7], 2-473, [1] clean, unmarked pages. B&w Illus…

Original Cloth. Condition: Good ++. No Jacket. First Edition Reprint. xiii+370pp, 4to original blue cloth [spine bit faded], no dj, ,exlib but text clean bar light brown stains at top of p.1 out of type area & offset on facing blank page. Not perfect but a pretty copy of the modernn scholarly edition of Boswell, Size: 4to. 4 Ill…

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 625pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light staining to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to fep, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, tatty (moderate discolouration to spine, ve…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ. Published: 1851-1852. New Edition. DESCRIPTION: A set of four volumes of Boswell's Life of Johnson along with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with illustrations. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to bruised corners, edges and spine ends. Rubbed cloth with faded spines.…

First Edition, the Large Paper Edition Limited to Three Hundred and Fifty Copies, Signed by the Artist. This copy is number 35. With an engraved and illustrated title-page featuring Johnson and Boswell strolling through London, and with 54 additional full-page engravings throughout as well as a map at the rear endleaves featurin…

Large Paper Edition, limited to 350 sets (this is no. 175). Three large octavo volumes. Publisher's blue-green sized buckram with gilt-paper spine labels; page edges uncut; xxxvii,458; 464; 466pp; frontispiece to each volume; 27 unnumbered leaves of plates on heavy paper; text illus by Herbert Railton. Slight external soil and w…

First edition, first impression, of Shepard's profusely illustrated edition. Everybody's Boswell was the second in a series of three popular abridgements of historical works; the immediate success of Everybody's Pepys in 1926 led to this version of Boswell, which was followed by Everybody's Lamb in 1933. All were illustrated by…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1863 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd repri…