Johnson Samuel Wain John (7 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Wrappers are worn and scuffed. Some curling along edges and corners. Slight creasing at corners. Foxed around edges of leaves. Else good. 247 pages. 247 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Hardback in fair condition- no jacket. Pages are tanned. Spine is faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1976. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xxiii,247pp. Edges slightly marked, d/j worn and rubbed. A fair copy. 0460000039/0.5uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).…

8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 388 pages with16 pages of illustrations. A biography by John Wain who is a specialist on Samuel Johnson. He was born in the same district, went to the same university and has lived the same life of Grub Street, has had chance employment and struggles to write books. Part of the biography focuses on the preparation of the Dictionary and the mature works from Johnson's later years. Illustrated with several black-and-white paintings of Johnson and events of his life. Indexed. The dust jacket covers have a few small tears. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. Johnson, Samuel (illustrator).…

(1974). (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 388pp. Ills., note on sources, index. Biography of Samuel Johnson. Locale. (Biography).

Yale University Press, New Haven 1991. xxxiii, 412 pp. Publisher's cloth with d/w. Wrapper chipped.