JAMES BOSWEL. EVERYBODY'S BOSWELL. G BELL AND SONS, 1930.
Price: US$3.90 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: ILLUSTRATED BY ERNEST H SHEPARD. BROWN CLOTH, GILT LETTERING ON SPINE, GILT FIGURES ON FRONT, MAP OF SCOTLAND ON REAR EPS. 609 PAGES. MILD CLOTH DISCOLOURING , DJ VERY WORN WITH CHIPS, TEARS AND CREASING ON EDGES, ALSO TANNED, LIGHT CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, LONG INSCRIPTION IN BLACK INK ON FFEP, FOXING ON EPS AND PAGE SIDES, TEAR ACROSS LEAF 353/4, OTHERWISE GOOD. 1000 GRAMS.
Seller: CHESIL BEACH BOOKS, WEYMOUTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$8.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No Dust Jacket brown cloth hardback with small embossed gilt decoration on front of cover, faded, gilt lettering on spine, small black sticker with white lettering on spine, rubbed edged on top and bottom of spine Ex College library copy, usual stamps on front right hand endpaper, and one date stamp on second back left hand endpaper, map of the Tour through Scotland and the Hebrides 1773 on back endpaper, otherwise clean tight copy in good condition, 609pp Numerous illustrations Undated published by G Bell and Sons Limited Heavy book therefore ONLY available for sale in the U K Book#09211
Seller: West End Books, Colwyn Bay Conwy North Wales, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1Vol. 8vo Black and white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard Pp. [xx], 609 Original brown cloth, endpaper at back a map. Waterstain on spine and upper cover not affecting contents, some rubbing and discoloration of cloth, otherwise a very good reading copy
Seller: Palmerton Mountain Books, Fort Ann, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.40 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Ernest H Shepard. Original brown cloth, titled gilt, with gilt illustration on front board. Spine just a touch faded & starting to wear on hinges otherwise VG. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher Bell, London 1930. Very Good condition. In brown boards with gilt lettering and design. Corners bumped, wear to ends of spine. Tight binding, all pages intact, no markings in text. Signature on flyleaf. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Seller: The Mill Bookshop, Gatehouse of Fleet, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light rubbing and bumping to the bottom corners of the boards which are otherwise unmarked. Browning to the page edges with some light spotting to the fore edges. Endpapers browned with a gift message in ink to the original owner to the front free endpaper. The pages are slightly browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing of this abridged edition.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Boswell, James. Everybody's Boswell. G. Bell & Sons, London, 1930.
Price: US$10.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, name and date on ffep in pencil, covers rubbed and faded otherwise Good without dustjacket.
Seller: John Stoodley, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
James Boswell. Everybody's Boswell: Being The life of Samuel Johnson. G. Bell, 1930.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Thin Paper edition, 1950 printing. Bound in flexible brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles, now somewhat faded. Map on rear endpapers. Prev owners name and other information on front endpapers. Considerable underlining and marginalia in first 85 pages and clean thereafter. Enjoy reading with a real book in your hands. Shipping from North Carolina. Dedicated to delighting our customers. Delivery confirmation provided on all domestic orders. Happy to ship to international locations. Consider expedited shipping - just a little more moves your purchase a lot faster. Digital photos available on request for any book.
Seller: Cameron Park Books, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1930, 1st thus. Octavo. xx, 609pp. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Map to rear end papers. Original brown cloth, gilt titles. A little soiling to rear cover. Light spotting to text-block. Neat former owner inscription to corner of end paper. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1930. G. Bell. Hard Cover. Book- Good, gilt titles on spine, gilt decoration on front board, brown boards, spine sunned. 7.5x5. 608pp. Some b/w illus by Ernest H. Shepard.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$24.40 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xx, 609 p., [54] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Notes; Illustrated t.-p.; map on lining-paper. Includes index. Contents; The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. -- The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784. Authors, English 18th century ; Biography. Lexicographers England ; Biography. Hebrides (Scotland) Description and travel. Scotland Description and travel To 1800. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Boswell, James. EVERYBODY'S BOSWELL. G. Bell and Sons Limited, London, 1930.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Xx,609; pictorial title-page, 54 b/w illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, double-page map illustrating 'Tour to the Hebrides' inside back cover. 'Being the life of Samuel Johnson, abridged from James Bowell's complete text and from the "Tour to the Hebrides". ' A nice copy but some spotting to fore-edge Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 x 7½" pp. xx + 609 with 54 full-page illustrations by E.H. Shephard and map of Scotland on rear endpapers. Very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and stamped gilt figures of Boswell and Johnson on front board. Firm and tight. Foxing to front edge but otherwise clean text with no marks, stains, labels or inscriptions. No dustwrapper. Flyer for an exhibition of Shepard's illustrations tipped in.
Seller: Raddon House Books, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.80 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1930. No Edition Stated. 609 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt decorations to front and gilt titles to spine. Illustrated by Ernest H Shepard. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Quite mottled and dusty overall. Spine heavily sunned and foxed. Slight split to front joint. Gilt is bright.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$36.34 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xx, 609 p., [54] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Notes; Illustrated t.-p.; map on lining-paper. Includes index. Contents; The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. -- The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784. Authors, English 18th century ; Biography. Lexicographers England ; Biography. Hebrides (Scotland) Description and travel. Scotland Description and travel To 1800. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: HB 1st Ed. Brown cloth boards. Gilt illust Boswell & Johnson front. Gilt titles spine. 19.5 x 13cm. 609 pages. Illustd title page. b/w illusts. e/p b/w map of the Tour through Scotland and the Hebrides 1773. 'Being the Life of Samuel Johnson abridged from James Boswell's complete text and from the Tour to the Hebrides. Contents: List of Illusts. Publisher's Introductory Note. Principal Characters. The Life. The Tour To the Hebrides. Index. Condition: Minor age/handling wear front, spine and back. Mild rubbing on spine + corners. o/p Dedication in period ink writing dated February 1932. Some foxing to opening & closing pages. In the main clean, little wear, tight binding, good colour. Good + condition.
Seller: Buybyebooks, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$41.85 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fine but for only the slightest traces of use, in jacket with lightly worn extremities, and a toned spine. A possibly unread copy, solid and clean. Frontis. and 54 full page illustrations, with endpaper map. 609 pages.
Seller: Renaissance Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$45.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xx+609pp+illus. Maps inside rear cover. Brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration, very minor fading to edge. Top edge lightly foxed, not affecting pages, just a little dusty on fore-edge. Full dust-jacket with minor wear to edges, sunned on spine. Not price-clipped. Inscription to front endpaper, otherwise very clean and crisp internally. A separate notice is enclosed advertising the Shepard drawings from this edition which were being exhibited at the Sporting Gallery in London in November-December 1930. A nice copy.(May require additional postage on overseas orders).
Seller: Clifford Elmer Books, CHEADLE, CHES, United Kingdom
Price: US$48.76 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Light brown boards with gilt illustration to front and gilt on spine. Clean bright and tight, very, very occasional foxing throughout. A lovely book. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details – only too pleased to help!
Seller: A Book Is Forever, Pershore, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: "This large paper edition, signed by the artist, is limited to three hundred and fifty copies of which this is number 61" but the signature is lacking. 609pp., top edge gilt, remaining edges uncut, brown cloth with gilt lettering and front cover image showing Boswell and Johnson walking together. Inscription on front paste-down, minor darkening toward hinge free end papers, edges darkened with spots of foxing on protruding foredges of the uncut pages, else very good clean & sound condition without dust jacket
Seller: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.
. Everybody's Boswell. G.Bell, 1930.
Price: US$57.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Being the Life of Samuel Johnson abridged from James Boswell's complete text and from the "Tour of the Hebrides" - 54 black/white illustrations by Shepard in very clean & bright condition with a name in ink on front endpaper (back endpaper as map) Gilt printing to spine/front very good & bright but a slight lightening of spine - page block with shelflife. Guaranteed posting 24hrs St131 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Collina Books, PENZANCE, CORNW, United Kingdom
Price: US$59.95 + shipping
Description: Brown embossed boards with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt graphic on the front board. The corners and the spine are sharp. FIRST EDITION THUS. Gifted and dated (June 12th-1931) front free page. Rear endpaper is "A Map of The Tour through Scotland and the Hebrides 1773." DJ has two tears to one-quarter of an inch and is not price-clipped. Illustrated. 609 pages which includes an index. A1 Very Good in Very Good, but Torn DJ
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Price: US$65.01 + shipping
Description: 8vo, xx, 609, (1) pp. 54 illustrations and a double page map. Contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., spine sunned, gilt arms to the upper cover.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOUND IN GREEN LEATHER WITH GILT LETTERING AND DESIGN BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY ERNEST SHEPARD WONDERFUL ENDPAPERS SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED MAP OF HEBRIDES IN GREAT SHAPE SILK BOOK MARK IN PLACE 7 INDENTED RINGS ON SPINE SPINE HAS AGED GRACEFULLY TO BROWN OVER THE YEARS ONE SMALL CHIP AT TOP OF SPINE TOP OF TEXTBLOCK IS GILT A VERY WELL MADE TITLE
Seller: ARD Books, cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$131.05 + shipping
Description: 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xx, 609pp. Tissue guarded line drawings. Map endpaper to rear. Signed by Shepard on the limitation page. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. VG : in Very Good condition without dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers. Teg - remaining edges untrimmed. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Boswell, James. Everybody's Boswell Being the Life of Samuel Jonson. G. Bell & Sons, London, 1930.
Price: US$156.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Half red leather. Gilt spine in compartments. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Bound by Birdsall. Light wear to the binding, Cracking in the internal hinge, but without detachment.
Seller: Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Boswell, James. EVERYBODY'S BOSWELL. , 1930.
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Description: 1930 Boswell, James EVERYBODY'S BOSWELL; BEING THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON ABRIDGED FROM JAMES BOSWELL'S COMPLETE TEXT AND FROM THE "TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES" London: G Bell and Sons, 1930 609pp, Illustrated Ernest Shepard, black and white rear end paper maps 8vo "This Large Paper Edition, Signed by the Artist, is Limited to THree Hundred and Fifty Copies, of Which This is Number 68" Signed by Ernest Shepard on the limitation page Polished brown cloth, two figures stamped in gold and black on front cover, gold lettering on the spine, upper edge gilt First free end page has been neatly removed, discoloration on the back cover, lower corner tips rounded; overall Very Good++ attractive hardcover.
Seller: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1437.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Ernest Shepherd, 7.5 x 5.5, blue morocco "extra," gilt ruled, gilt stamped design on the covers, Johnson on the front cover, gilt stamped profile of Johnson surrounded by laurel leaves on the back cover, all edges gilt, blue and purple marbled endpapers sprinkled with gilt, 609 pp. Light wear/rubbing to covers, front cover is ever so lightly faded, light/moderate shelfwear to lower edges, faint scratch on front cover, corners have light/moderate wear, spine is faded (lighter than front cover but still attractive), light wear to spine tips and outer hinges, slight hinge crack starting, contents near fine. A very attractive binding. SIGNED RIVIERE BINDING.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1625.21 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Shepard's profusely illustrated edition. Everybody's Boswell was the second in a series of three popular abridgements of historical works; the immediate success of Everybody's Pepys in 1926 led to this version of Boswell, which was followed by Everybody's Lamb in 1933. All were illustrated by Shepard with rich attention to period detail. This copy, with its elaborate pictorial onlay, is decorated in the "Kelliegram" style, one of the many innovations of the English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family's bindery was an established part of the London trade. It was founded in 1770 by John Kellie (as the name was then spelled) and carried on by successive family members into the 1930s. Octavo (190 x 124 mm). Contemporary binding of green morocco by Rivière, spine decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt decorative frames to covers enclosing multicolour onlay morocco illustration to front cover, gilt central tool to rear, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. 54 plates, folding map at rear, illustrated title page, all by E. H. Shepard. Spine a touch sunned, gilt central tool to rear a little rubbed, small mark to rear free endpaper. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom