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Author David Buchanan relates what really happened to the huge mass of Boswell's papers after his death, how they were dealt with by successive generations of the Boswell family and how they were reunited after 150 years.
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The Treasure of Auchinleck : The Story of the Boswell Papers
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ISBN 10: 0070087105
ISBN 13: 9780070087101
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The Treasure of Auchinleck : The Story of the Boswell Papers
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ISBN 10: 0070087105
ISBN 13: 9780070087101
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The treasure of Auchinleck;: The story of the Boswell papers
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ISBN 10: 0070087105
ISBN 13: 9780070087101
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THE TREASURE OF AUCHINLECK: The Story of the Boswell Papers
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0070087105
ISBN 13: 9780070087101
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The Treasure of Auchinleck : The Story of the Boswell Papers
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0070087105
ISBN 13: 9780070087101
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good jacket. Aulicino, Robert (jacket design) (illustrator). Second printing. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. Near Fine condition in a Near Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed, with a few small chips and short closed tears. Bright, shiny, tight. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Hardcover. 6.75" wide by 9.25" tall. Delightful and fascinating history of these documents and Ralph Heyward Isham's titanic 25 year struggle to reunite them. A scholarly work that reads like a thriller. With 46 illustrations. Six appendices. Genealogical Tables. Index. Bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in black on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "James Boswell, the great biographer of Johnson, accumulated a huge mass of papers. He kept a daily journal, corresponded with dozens of literary figures of his age, and kept most of his correspondence including copies of letters he sent. This is the story of the 'treasure' of Auchinleck -- one of the most fascinating and varied collections of eighteenth-century papers ever assembled. For more than a century, the papers were believed to have been lost or destroyed in an attempt to hide Boswell's more candid and 'unpublishable' self-revelations About 1925 the staggering task of acquiring and reuniting Boswell's scattered archives was undertaken by an American collector, the late Ralph Heyward Isham The accomplishment of his task after twenty-five years of struggle at the cost of near impoverishment is an epic feat of literary salvage In these lively, colorful pages Buchanan explains what really happened to the papers after Boswell's death and how they were dealt with by successive generations of the Boswell family.". Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Very Good jacket. Illus. by Aulicino, Robert (jacket design). xxii, 371pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Seller Inventory # 015810
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