L B Powell Ed (13 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: G+. Fifth Edition. 8vo. A good copy. 63pp. Page edges browned, small chip out of top of title page. Pencil annotations to list of "writers" page. nd but assume pub during 2nd world war. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1947 or 1948, 112 pages; vintage journal, rural subjects | sound, clean copy shows moderate general wear; pages are a little yellow due to age | professional booksellers based in the UK | we package with great care and usually dispatch within 24hrs, always within two working days | please request scans or further information on any of our listings, which are all in stock and ready to be dispatched.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1947, 112 pages, vintage journal | this copy shows heavy general wear and yellowing due to age, but is still intact and readable | professional booksellers based in the UK | we package with great care and usually dispatch within 24hrs, always within two working days | please request scans or further information on any of our listings, which are all in stock and ready to be dispatched.…

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. undated circa 1945, vintage journal, rural subjects | this copy is tired, significantly yellow due to age, and needs to be handled with care, but remains intact and readable | professional booksellers based in the UK | we package with great care and usually dispatch within 24hrs, always within two working days | please request scans or further information on any of our listings, which are all in stock and ready to be dispatched.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Revised and Enlarged Edition. xlv, [3], 556; [6], 543; [6], 541; [6], 557; xxvii, [3], 596; xii, [2], 496 pp. 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt spine titles and ruled head and tail. Frontispiece portraits to all vols. Vols 1-4 are 1934 first printings of the Powell revised edition. Vols. 5 & 6 are 1964 Second Edition with errata slips. Vols 1-4 show some light rubbing to extremities, vols 1& 2 fore edges dampstained. Volumes 5 & 6 are inscribed by the preeminent Johnson/Boswell collector Mary Hyde: ?For the Courage Library in rememberance of our unforgetable visit - Mary Hyde and Lila Tyng, 19 September 1974.? Hyde's collection, begun with her husband Donald Hyde and continually expanded until her death in 2003, has been described as "just one of the world's great archives of eighteenth-century English literature, with more than 4,000 books and 5,500 letters and manuscripts. Still more important, it is the world's best collection of documents relating to the life and work of Samuel Johnson" - Adam Kirsch. The collection was placed in Harvard's Houghton Library in 2004. In the preface to vol. VI, Lawrence F. Powell writes, "My friends in America have been generous in their aid. I mention, in particular, Dr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, whose library at Four Oaks Farm, Somerville, New Jersey, is the Mecca of All Johnsonians.".…