Boswell James Illus (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book Club Edition. Bright blue cl. w. gilt lettering, spotted Backstr. bright blue w. gilt lettering on black field, sl. faded. 631pp. Literary Guild. Contents clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. dj w/lite wear, unclipped price, in mylar; 281 clean, unmarked pages. b/w Illus; Maps on End Papers (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Bright blue cl. w. gilt lettering. Backstr. bright blue w. gilt lettering on black field. Dj. unclipped, shelfworn w. some creases and tears. 631pp. Literary Guild.

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 corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Book has forward lean. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Mild rubbing and marking all over. Sticker to rear panel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. First English Edition, First Printing; dj w/lchipping, closed repaired tear, unclipped price, in mylar; black c w/gilt titles; owner's inscs., 424 clean, unmarked pages/index. Maps on End Papers & Fold-out Map; Other b/w Illus (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First English Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite hipping, unclipped price, in mylar; black c w/gilt titles; 424 clean, unmarked pages/index. Maps on End Papers & Fold-out Map; Other b/w Illus (illustrator).

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First English Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite small piee missing, unclipped price, in mylar; black c w/blue boards, gilt titles; 424 clean, unmarked pages/index. Maps on End Papers & Fold-out Map; Other b/w Illus (illustrator).…

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Half-leather -- red leather over marbled paper boards. Small ding on top edge of rear cover, otherwise fine. Slipcase is very good with just a trace of soiling. Copy #1422 of 2000 limited. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 327 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illus. with b.w. plates, incl. frontis. 8vo. orig. bds., a.e.g. Edges very rubbed, inscr., occasional foxing, generally good.

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 bit rubbed. Johnson. RGR.…

FIRST EDITION THUS, super octavo, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 205pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (sl chafing & soiling).

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., circa late 1930s); metal comb spine; beige card covers; titling/illus. printed in black to front cover; [iv]pp. + 20 leaves; illus. bw. drawings. Foreword by the Duchess of Atholl, Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray (1874-1960). Metal comb spine slightly crushed at top/tail, but complete/intact; front cover partially detaching from comb spine; rear cover creased at bottom corner; covers very soiled; p.[i] lightly nicked at fore-edge; sporadic slight (occasionally heavy) foxing/soiling (including paint splashes) to pages, but text fresh; illustrations have been coloured (quite artistically/neatly) using watercolour paint. All complete. Lightweight item, hence overseas customers will have SHIPPING CHARGES REDUCED subsequent to ordering. Fair. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Illus. by JAMES BOSWELL (illustrator). Softcover.…

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 (illustrator). …

1st edition thus. Octavo, illustrated boards, colour plates, pp xiii, 205. Introduction by A.S. Byatt. Near fine condition in like slipcase. Classic crime novel, written and set early in WWII and featuring Campion. Introd. A.S. Byatt ; illus. James Boswell. (illustrator).

Small 8vo. 15cm by 10cm. pp 24. Booklet. Original publisher's red stapled covers, lettered black. No date, [1940]. Very good.

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 Illus Incl. Map on Ep (illustrator). Ex-Library a Few Maeks.…

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, very heavy creasing & chipping to edges with loss, light foxing to covers).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 18. Original publishers beige cloth, lettered red at the spine and front cover. Signed by Roy Campbell on the limitation page. Limited edition of 99 copies, this being no. 73. Very good indeed in plain glassine dust jacket. Signedes.…

Limited Edition. No. 310 of 1500 hand-numbered copies. Octavo (25.5cm); half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt; 327pp; illus. In publisher's board slipcase. A tight, Fine copy in the original publisher's slipcase, lightly dusted, Near Fine.

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. All volumes are tightly bound with lightly dusted intact endpapers and firm hinges. Previous owners names and minor annotations to endpapers. Toned pages with a few folded page corners to some volumes. Soiled text block edges. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 320, 306, 298, 300, 360. Size: 19.5cm by 13cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information. CARRUTHERS, Robert (illustrator). …

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 featuring the journey of Boswell and Johnson to Scotland and the Hebrides. Thick royal 8vo, handsomely bound in the publisher's polished grained cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover with a gilt illustrative device showing Boswell and Johnson strolling with one another, top edge gilt. xx, 609 pp. A very fine copy of this edition, beautifully preserved and in a very pleasing condition, a tight, clean and crisp copy, the text and plates all bright and especially fresh, the binding strong, solid and very attractive, virtually pristine. A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF TWO OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE AGE BOUND TOGETHER INTO THIS FAMOUS PRESENTATION WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ERNEST SHEPARD, SIGNED BY HIM. Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness, Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great, very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets,--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists,--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators, than Boswell is the first of Biographers." (Macauley, in the Edinburgh Review, 1831). Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject, and brought to his task boundless curiosity, persistence, and zest. The tour proved to be inspirational for both men. Johnson published A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND in 1775 and Boswell, in addition to this work, used his notes from the tour extensively in his LIFE OF JOHNSON, published in 1791. "As a narrative of personal adventures, Boswell's account is to be preferred to Johnson's. Naturally such a work, as was true of everything concerning Dr. Johnson, aroused great interest, which was heightened by Boswell's frankness in expressing opinions about his hosts as well as by his naiveté in relating incidents that did not reflect credit to himself" (Cox). This is a very handsomely bound and readable copy of these two masterworks.…

Grey hardback cloth cover.s. Condition: Good. Limited Edition 261/500. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed and soiled with wear to title labels. Unopened. 189mm x 125mm (7" x 5"). lxii, 381pp; 398pp; 400pp; 390pp; 424pp + plates. 21 b/w plates. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas.

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 Shepard with rich attention to period detail. This copy, with its elaborate pictorial onlay, is decorated in the "Kelliegram" style, one of the many innovations of the English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family's bindery was an established part of the London trade. It was founded in 1770 by John Kellie (as the name was then spelled) and carried on by successive family members into the 1930s. Octavo (190 x 124 mm). 54 plates, folding map at rear, illustrated title page, all by E. H. Shepard. Contemporary binding of green morocco by Rivière, spine decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt decorative frames to covers enclosing multicolour onlay morocco illustration to front cover, gilt central tool to rear, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Spine a touch sunned, gilt central tool to rear a little rubbed, small mark to rear free endpaper. A near-fine copy.…

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 reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 646 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 646 Language: English.…