Boswell James Esq (52 results)

Cloth Bound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gordon Ross (illustrator). . no writing no tearing blue cloth. literary guild . see picture.

Hardbound. 1st Edition. Spine-ends worn. text clean. binding good. B / W illustrations. Good / no DJ stain to front cover / light bumped corners /.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Library of English Classics. 522 pages, index. Some pages unopened, edges untrimmed. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Old library spine label, spots of bleaching on covers, rear free endpaper has a torn corner.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Used-Acceptable. No Jacket. 1200 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy with clean text. No dj. Upper part of spine damaged. Spine slightly skewed. No publishing year given. Publishing year gleaned from other sources, therefore, it is an approximation. Spine retaped.

Hardcover in dust jacket. Reprint. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition Thus. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Vol. 10; 452 pages; Dark red cloth hard covers with gold lettering on spine. Spine is straight, binding tight. Pages are clean with light aging. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition Thus. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Vol. 11; 452 pages; Dark red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Spine is straight, binding tight. Pages are clean with light aging. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1916. Hardcover. First edition thus, seventh impression. Everyman's Library Edition. Grey cloth. Gilt lettering and gilt decoration to spine. Blind stamped publisher's device to upper board. Top edges decoratively stained grey. Pictorial pastedowns and endpapers. No dustjacket. Top and bottom edge of upper board and bottom edge of lower board uneven. Boards slightly soiled. Decorative staining dulled. Fore edge of page 607 lightly creased. Area of loss approximately 1 cm by 3 cm to fore edge of page 609. Text unaffected. Area of loss apprximately1 cm by 1.5 cm to fore edge of page 611. Overall, the book is in a good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint Edition. Volume III. Slipcased. 473 pps. Gilt titles: sp. Frontis. Brown cloth bds. Some shelfwear to the slipcase. P/o embossed seal on half-title pg. Interior leaves are clean and tight. "With marginal comments and markings from two copies annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi." Prepared for publication with an Introduction by Edward G. Fletcher. A clean copy. James Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Joohnson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition: Includes slipcover in good condition. Boards in excellent condition. Pages are crisp and clean, original owners name written inside front cover. Description: Marginal comments by Mrs. Piozzi. often considered to be one of the finest pieces of biographical writing in the English language. Samuel Johnson was an English poet, essayist, and lexicographer who produced a pioneering and influential Dictionary of the English Language. However, he is less well-known today for his writings than as the biographical subject for Boswell, a lawyer from Scotland who first met Johnson in 1763. During their 21-year friendship, Boswell recorded many of Johnson's sayings and activities using a self-invented form of shorthand. He eventually worked these notes into the massive biography which he published seven years after Johnson's death.

Condition: Very Good. Very good plus. Book has red marks along top fine edges, brown stains inside front cover, and cover is wearing along edges.

Teal cloth stamped in gilt. Twelve pen & ink drawings by W.H. Caffyn and Eight Portraits in photoravure (illustrator). First printing this edition. With an Introduction by T. Ratcliffe Barnett (1928-1946). Barnett's ownership top edge front free endpaper. Pencil underlining 2 pages, spine darkened, near fine.

Illustrated by several line drawings. Globe (later) edition. c.1893 (first thus). Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt top emblem, gilt print spine, uncut & unopened. Cr.8vo. pp. xxiii, 718, [2] Ads. VG/No jacket. Cap and corner wear, bumped corners, foxing starting at eps., many sections unopened, ink owner. Based on the 1804 edition. Double column format, Title page and advertisement from the original 1791, 2 volume quarto edition.

Original Blue cloth hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 1912. [iv], 522pp. Volume 3 only (of 3). Gilt titles to spine. Moderate foxing to edges and occasionally to the contents. No inscriptions.

Hardcover First Ed. Samuel Johnson, Biography. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Edited by Ernest Rhys. (638 Pgs.) Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering, slight soil edge, otherwise near VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2 Volumes. Volume 1 has bumping to corners, wear to edges. Shelf wear/rubbing. Spine is rubbed, ends are chipped and frayed. End papers have age staining. Writing on ffep, Name written on title page. Hinges split front and back. Interior pages are age tanned, have light age stains. Volume 2 has bumping/wear to corners and edges. Shelf wear/light soil. Spine is rubbed, wear to ends. Hinges split front and back, ffep and frontis is pulled from book. Writing on ffep. Newspaper clipping glued to backside of ffep, writing on it also. Interior pages are age tanned, have age staining.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. pp Both complete. 5th printing. Boards a little grubby. Internally fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volume 1 ONLY. 1831 Hardcover. "A New Edition". Ex-Library. Text is clean. Binding is strong, but there is a slight hinge separation along the dedication section. Leather spine and corners, marbled boards, Spine is covered with matching tape, title boxes attached to tape, corners are rubbed and curved.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Oxford University Press, 1967. Dustjacket faintly rubbed/bumped/soiled/sunned, spine lightly sunned, corners/spine ends lightly rubbed/bumped, several tiny tears at spine ends, top corner of the rear flap chipped, one small tear at the top spine end; gilt lettering on spine, cover very faintly rubbed/bumped/soiled, corners faintly rubbed/bumped, spine ends very lightly rubbed/bumped; edges very faintly soiled, faintly rubbed/bumped/sunned; interior very faintly age-toned throughout, endpapers very faintlty soiled, very faint pencil erasure on the ffep near the top hinge; binding tight; dustjacket, cover, edges and interior intact and very clean, except where noted; due to the size/weight of this item, additional shipping charges may apply for International or Expedited orders. hardcover. Good/Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. This hardcover book set was published in 1821. It is in Poor condition. Please see the pictures. All but 1 of the 7 boards present are separated from the text blocks. 3 are missing. Each volume has the name of the same owner written in ink on the first page. There are no endpapers and no dust jackets. 3 have bookplates. The pages are clean, without any underlining or notes. (See pictures.) The books come from a smoke free home. I will ship them with Media Mail through the US Post Office within 2 business days, usually sooner.

xxvi[ii], 361[1] pp including index, publishers leaf to rear, frontis plus additional engraved title page, numerous woodcuts within the pagination. (This volume is complete in itself but forms Volume V of Boswell's Life of Johnson). Original blindstamped blue cloth with gilt lettering & decoration to spine, top edge gilt. 20 cm x 14 cm. Spine and board margins faded, cloth lightly soiled with some random marks, minor wear to spine tips & corners, contents slightly age browned with some faint random spotting.

Tre voll. in 8° gr., pp. LVIII-466, 486, 473 con 3 illustrazioni a colori in antiporta ai volumi. Leg. in tela edit. con tit. in oro su tassello ai dorsi. Conservati in custodia edit.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Boswell's Life of Johnson. Edited with an Introduction By Mowbray Morris By Boswell, James, Esq. Hardcover, faded and marked spine, tanned mainily to inside of boards and end papers. Publisher: London: MacMillan, 1906. Used. Illustrated by several line drawings. Globe (later) edition. Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt top emblem, gilt print spine, uncut & unopened. Cap and corner wear, bumped corners, foxing starting at eps., many sections unopened, ink owner old fashioned ink owner inscription (Kaitangata, May 1919).Based on the 1804 edition. Double column format, Title page and advertisement from the original 1791, 2 volume quarto edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hardcover/pub.1963/Gd. condition/466 pages - A biography of Samuel Johnson, English poet, critic, essayist, and dictionary maker. [AI929550].

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. 4 lbs 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, In Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons. Two only of 3 volumes. Vols I and 2. Greenough and Stebbins, Printers. 1807. Foxed. External staining. Tears within Vol II's title page publication statement.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Complete set of 10 leatherbound volumes with stunning marbled endpapers and page ends. Some loss to corners, exterior edges, general wear to spines. Includes many steel engravings throughout each volume. Additional photos available upon request - shipping boxed, insured.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1858 US Edition. This is an 1858 A.S. Barnes edition in contemporary brown calf, 4 rib spine, gold/black spine label, marbled edges and endpapers. 580 pages including indes. YMCA bookplate. A VG tight copy with no foxing. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order ; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published ; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain for nearly half a century during which he flourished. By James Boswell, Esq. A New Edition, Elucidated by Copious Notes, and Illustrated with Numerous Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, Engraved from Authentic Sources. The books are also known as 'Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson' or 'Boswell's Life of Johnson'. Bound in 2 Books, there are actually 4 Volumes in total - 2 in each book as follows; Vol I, dated to 1863 on overall title page, containing: Vol. 1; No individual publishing date. xxxii + 291pp; Vol. 2; No individual publishing date. viii + 298pp. Vol II, dated to 1859 on overall title page, containing: Vol. 3; No individual publishing date. viii + 298pp; Vol. 4; No individual publishing date. viii + 9-300pp (as issued) + 4pp Publisher's advertisements. Published by George Routledge and Sons, London. 4 Volumes, bound as two complete. Bindings are fair to good - blue leather spines and burgundy buckram over boards, with gilt to spine. With shelf wear, rubbing and vertical hinges of spine heavily worn, and the head of both volumes is bumped and frayed, with losses. A little give in the spines. Text pages are very good - clean and bright throughout with some scattered age spotting, and some foxing to endpapers. Volume 3 has a fold-out of a 'Round Robin' addressed to Samuel Johnson, with facsimile signatures. Some spotting to title/frontispiece pages. Small bookseller's catalogue entry pasted onto reverse of first free endpaper. Text in English. Illustrated throughout with line drawings. Dimensions: Each volume approx 197mm high x 138mm wide x 40mm deep. Weight: Approximately 1400g (the set - unpacked). Extra postage may be payable for overseas orders. More photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: Printed for T Cadell et al., 1822, The Ninth Edition, Revised and Augmented. VOL III ONLY. Full leather binding with gilt titles to a red leather labels, with leather boards. Rubbed and worn with some loss to the leather. With the folding Round Robin addressed to Samuel Johnson. 446pp. Provenance: bookplates for Laurence Peel and Sir Mervyn Ll. (Lloyd) Peel. Laurence Peel (1801 1888) was a British Tory politician and the younger brother of Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Laurence was described by one historian as "the youngest and least talented, but perhaps the most personally attractive of the Peel brothers". Approximately 8 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles to red label, rubbed, marked and worn. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition full leather, rubbed, marked and worn. Page edges good condition all edges marbled, top edge darkened. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition tanned. End papers good condition tanned. Title good condition tanned and foxed. Pages good condition tanned and foxed. Binding good condition worn and marked. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1822 Binding: Hardback.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. First Edition, Thus. Threee Volumes, 8vo., 466, 486, 473pp. Beautiful First Heritage Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive Publisher's slipcases have a touch of edge-wear but quite minor. Bookpalte on front paste-down of each volume. A gorgeous collectable set at a great price.