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Very good minus, light shelfwear. 2nd Ptg hardbound Lightly edgeworn, lightly soiled slipcase.
Published by NY McGraw Hill (1950)., 1950
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
VG PB. 9 momentous months in the life of 22 year old James Boswell (later to become Samuel Johnson's biographer) as he struggles to become independent from his family and for self-preservation. Underlining & marks on back cover. Sl edge wear.
Published by NY McGraw Hill (1950)., 1950
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
VG. Owner name fep, edge wear. The most famous biography of all time. BCE edition.
Published by William Heinemann., London., 1951
Seller: N. G. Lawrie Books, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 370pp, illustrations, map endpapers. Original dark blue cloth. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1956
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Quarter Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by William Heinemann, London, 1952
ISBN 10: 1406755737ISBN 13: 9781406755732
Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, xix + 428 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations, endpaper map; book very gently read, not a trace of shelf or reading wear, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ rubbed at edges, several immeasurably tiny chips/tears, now in new mylar protector.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd., 1960
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Book
hardcover. Condition: Good. 1960; blue cloth covered boards with gold titles and accents; wear around edges; front hinge is cracked; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 424 pages. from the collection of John Shy, Professor at University of Michigan.
Published by The Folio Society, Ondon, 1985
Seller: JBK Books, North Manchester, IN, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: As New. 365pp; Index; pristine, unmarked contents. No ownership or library markings. No writing; no bookplate. B/W illustrations. Includes VG slipcase. Navy blue cloth spine with gilt stamping.
Published by McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1959
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good jacket (price clip). Chappell, Warren (jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition (so stated). New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (partially price-clipped). NOT a library discard. A square, reasonably tight copy. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Text is unmarked with NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing with "First Edition" so stated on the copyright page. Illustrated with 8 plates. Folding maps of Edinburgh (printed on both front and reverse sides; unfold to 19" wide by 9" tall). End paper maps of London. Based on James Boswell's private papers now at Yale University, this volume covers the five active years following his marriage in 1769. Among the topics are Boswell's law practice and growing reputation as an advocate, the start of his family, the trips to London that triggered his resolve to write the biography, etc. Includes Boswell's account of his role defending a client charged with stealing sheep, a hanging offense in 18th century Scotland. The seventh volume in the series of The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell. Index. Bound in the original blue boards with a black cloth spine stamped in shiny gold. From the dust jacket: "This newest addition covers the five years following Boswell's marriage in 1769 -- crowded, active years in which he starts a family, acquires reputation as an advocate, and also renews his literary ambitions and labours.". First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good jacket (price clip). Illus. by Chappell, Warren (jacket design). 8vo. xxix, 396pp.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1960
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition Thus. Not price-clipped (30s price intact). Published by Yale University Press, 1960. Octavo. Dark blue cloth boards stamped in gold with cartographic endpapers and dark blue topstain. Book is very good; Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, nicks, loss on top spine. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 424 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!.
Published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1952
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Stated First Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952. Stated First edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with map-illustrated endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University. Black and white illustrations. 433 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, has slight edge wear, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Part of The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell.
Published by Heinemann, London, 1863
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A clean copy.
Published by McGraw-Hill
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Four Book Set. 3 of the volumes are G+ to VG-, with Staining to the edges of the pages and to the top edge of Boswell's London Journal, which is in Fair to G- condition as a result. Boswell in Holland has previous owner's brief writing and name on the first page.
Published by Heineman, London, 1951
Seller: Krokodile Books, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Book
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration on front boards. dustjacket is mildly marked and is now protected. top page edges in dark blue. binding good and pages clean and bright. good copy.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1985
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardback. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good Slipcase. Slipcase has been reinforced with tape at edges. Bookplate to Front Free End paper. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 365 pages.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1952
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Original vellum/blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Published. Limited Edition. THE YALE EDITION OF THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL - DELUXE EDITION Limited edition of 1050 copies, this copy number 445, xix, 428pp, black & white illustrations, slightly faded red silk marker, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, original vellum spine and blue cloth boards, gilt coat of arms on front board, leather title label very slightly chipped. Size: 8vo. Biography/diary.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1953
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Original vellum/blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Published. Limited Edition. THE YALE EDITION OF THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL - DELUXE EDITION Limited edition of 1000 copies, this copy number 366, xxvi, 353pp, black & white illustrations, slightly faded red silk marker, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, original vellum spine and blue cloth boards, gilt coat of arms on front board, leather title label with some loss at edges. Size: 8vo. Biography/diary.
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company,, New York,, 1950
Seller: Mad Hatter Bookstore, Westbank, BC, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Map on lining papers. Firm binding, clean inside copy.DJ has edge and shelf wear, bottom inch of spine is missing, tanned, tears on head edge and holed on rear from wear. Introduction and notes by Frederick A. Pottle. "The publication of this volume marks a milestone in the history of English literature, for here is an intimate journal of James Boswell, written almost two hundred years ago, which has never before been published." Ships same or next business day. Book has normal edge and shelf wear, small bumps on corners and both ends of spine, head edge color is somewhat faded, edges of boards are lightly discolored, pages are tanned but clean.
Published by William Heinemann, London, 1963
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. A very good copy in a near very good dustwrapper with minor edge tears. Bookplate of Compton Mackenzie. Pp.xxviii,520. Illustrations. Maps. This is considered by many to be the best of all Boswell's Journals.
Published by William Heinemann, Melbourne
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
First Edition
1953, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 353pp. Top edge stained blue. Map endpapers, notes, illustrations, appendices, index. The dust jacket is toned along the spine and edges with a shallow chip to the top of the spine and there is a previous owner's name and book stamp on the front and back endpapers. "This volume is the wonderfully fresh and detailed journal of the exuberant Scot as he samples the dazzling court life in Germany, and relentlessly seeks out two of the greatest men of his day - Rousseau in Switzerland and Voltaire just across the border in France". Biography of James Boswell. Time Period 1764 & 18th Century. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. Publisher series: Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell 4. Locale: France; Germany; Switzerland. (Biography, Travel and Adventure).
Published by London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1st edition, 1952
small 4to. dustwrapper. [i-xix]. [3]. 428pp. map and 4 illustrations. good copy.
Published by Heinemann, 1986
ISBN 10: 0434081302ISBN 13: 9780434081301
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: very good. Used.
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Published by McGraw-Hill, 1955
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1950
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition/first printing in Fine condition in a Very Good+, lightly soiled and chipped dust-jacket. Previous owner's name on front board; Frederick A. Pottle compiles Boswell's account of his nine months spent in London between 1762 and 1763. Boswell details his experiences with the upper and lower class life that he encounters while also painting a portrait of his younger self; 8vo; 370 pages.
Published by London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1st edition, 1963
large 8vo. dustwrapper. [i-xxiv]. [2]. 427pp. map. 6 illustrations. some wear to wrapper edges else a good copy.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd. / Studley Press 1951, London, 1951
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Full Morocco. Condition: Very Good. Deluxe Edition. xiii, 370 pp. Studley Press full black morocco with gilt decoration to front board & spine. Top edge gilt. Boards clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. Folding map. Studley Press deluxe leather binding. Large 8vo. De Luxe Edition.
Published by Heinemann London, 1953
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. quarter vellum binding with gilt crest to cover and gilt leather title label to spine. upper edge of text block gilt. Only 1,000 copies of the deluxe edition were printed, This is copy number 724, in slipcase. A title in the Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell. boards a little rubbed with some light scratches. rough cut pages. marker ribbon sewn in. slipcase worn, creased, scuffed and overall a little tatty, slipcase spine ends and corners fraying. Clean bright tight book with plates in slip case. 353 pages. Large 8vo.
Published by William Heinemann, Lonodon, 1953
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Deluxe limited edition. xxiv, 353 pp., 16 plates, 2 maps at rear including 1 folding; royal octavo, half vellum and gilt blue boards, leather spine label. #223 of 1000 deluxe copies. Small spot to vellum on front cover, else fine. Lacking slipcase.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, , The Viking Press, London, New York, 1936
Book
Hardcover. Condition: See Description. Limited Edition. Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Boswell, James; Edited by: Pottle, Frederick A.; Bennett, Charles H. Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, The Viking Press, New York, 1936. ?This First Edition Is Limited to Seven Hundred Ninety Numbered Copies for Sale in England and America and Twenty Six Lettered Copies For Private Distribution. This Is Copy Number 177?. First published from the original manuscript of Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, Isham Collection. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; xviii, 435pp. with folding map, black and white illustrations. Quarter red cloth over red boards, paper spine label; title page in black and red ink; rough cut fore and bottom edges. Contents are in pristine condition. Binding is tight and square with rubbing to lower corners of boards and tail of spine; spine is faded. Lacking original slipcase. In 1773, Boswell enticed his famous English friend Samuel Johnson to accompany him on a tour through the highlands and western islands of Scotland. Johnson was then in his mid sixties. The two travellers set out from Edinburgh and skirted the eastern and northeastern coasts of Scotland, passing through St Andrews, Aberdeen and Inverness. They then passed into the highlands and spent several weeks on various islands in the Hebrides, including Skye, Coll, and Mull. After a visit to Boswell's estate at Auchinleck, the travellers returned to Edinburgh.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Copy #190. Missing slipcase. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.25.