Published by Andrew Melrose, 1912., 1912
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
8vo. [xl] + 252pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece.Ex-library, with library label to rear pastedown. First gathering loose. F.e.ps. browned. Original gilt lettered navy cloth, rubbed to edges, mark to upper board. US$15.
Published by New Haven, CT: published by the author, 1925., 1925
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. - Octavo, brown paper covered boards with a gilt-lettered label on the spine. The covers are lightly bumped & the spine is lightly rubbed with a few chips out of the paper. 31 pages plus colophon. The beautifully engraved bookplate of Donald S. Tuttle is mounted on the front pastedown. Black-and-white frontispiece facsimile. The contents are bright and near fine. Limited edition of 75 numbered copies, of which 25 were for sale, printed by the Yale University Press under the direction of Carl Purington Rollins. This is number 21.Tinker recounts the meeting between a young American from Philadelphia, William White, and Dr. Samuel Johnson. White lets Johnson know that an American edition of "Rasselas" has been published in Philadelphia and, on his return to America, sends him a copy.
Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1926
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
cloth-backed boards. Johnson, Samuel (illustrator). 4to. cloth-backed boards. 17 pages followed by plates showing busts of Johnson. Limited to 385 copies. Printed under the direction of Bruce Rogers. Lacking the dust jacket. Else very good.
Published by On letterhead of the Yale College Department of English. 8 October, 1924
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
2pp., 12mo. With stamped and postmarked envelope, addressed by Tinker to 'Chas. Mc.Carnie, Esqr., | Natl. Bank of W. V. Bldg, | Wheeling, W. V.' Tinker considers that 'The MSS. certainly ought to go to the Yale Library, rather than to the Elizabethan Club, - and the librarian will be delighted to receive it and to acknowledge your goodness in presenting it.' He asks McCamie for 'an account of it in a letter from yourself, to accompany the MS.' Concerning Aleyn Lyell Reade's book on Samuel Johnson's servant Francis Barber, he thanks McCamie for having remembered his 'need of the volume on Barber'. He had 'tried to get one from Reade and failed. Did you actually see him?'.