Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 1813 SIXTH EDITION REVISED AND CORRECTED. 460 Pages. Described as poor because covers are well worn; spine is vertically cracked; front board together with front endpaper and half title page are detached, and text block between pages 192 and 193 only held together by one string. I never like throwing away such an old book. Hand written 'Castleton Library' on title page. Pages are clean with some browning in parts.
Seller: SEVERNBOOKS, Telford, SHROP, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo., 460 pp., Very Good, Black Cloth, edge-wear, rubbing on covers, minor staining in text block, shelf-wear. Sixth Edition Revised And Corrected.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Hardcover; 460 pages. Contemporary boards, with a cloth tape covered spine. Original blue label with topic, pasted to spine. The boards a little battered: warped, and extensively worn/bumped on edges. Some small stains on front and back. Prev. owner's signature on cover (faded), as well as fep and title-page. Fore-edge and tail-edge deckle, head-edge cut. Wavy pages, fading but still remarkably bright. With notes and rewspaper clippings at back. Suitable as a reading copy. P/--
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good+ three quarter leather edition, has a previous owner's name on the title page. Leather has some rubs and light wear. Marbled boards are rubbed, marbled page edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 460 pages
Seller: Elder's Bookstore, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
James Boswell. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. T. Cadell, London, 1813.
Price: US$84.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The sixth revised and corrected edition of this tour of the Hebrides. Sixth edition. Revised and enlarged. With portrait frontispiece. Includes some poetical pieces by Dr. Samuel Johnson never before published; a series of conversations, literary anecdotes, and opinions on men and books; with an authentic account of the distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II in 1746. Written by James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, best known for his biography of his friend Samuel Johnson which has been said to be the greatest biography written in the English language. With notes from Samuel Johnson, an English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. "Arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history" - The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In the original quarter red cloth with green paper covered boards. Externally, smart with bumping to the extremities and the odd mark to the board. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd spot. Title page is loosely inserted. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$91.01 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 6th edition, xv 460pp hardback, full brown panelled calf gilt rubbed, al edges gilt, short tear to top of spine, frontispiece portrait and half-title, good heraldic bookplate of Sir John S. Harmood-Banner Bt, to front paste-down, pictures on request
Seller: Salsus Books (P.B.F.A.), Kidderminster, United Kingdom
Price: US$117.02 + shipping
Description: , xv [1] 1-460 pages, contains 1 black and white plate frontispiece Sixth Edition , corners and edges lightly rubbed, joints lightly worn and marked slightly, a little foxing and shading on the prelims and end papers, good condition , half leather with red, orange and blue marble paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine , octavo, 21.5 x 13.5 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$123.52 + shipping
Description: xv, [i], 460 pp. Frontis. portrait of Boswell engraved by Evans after Reynolds. Half-title present. Nice clean and tigth copy with the front board detached and incomplete spine. In need of respining. A good bookplate of John Marriott [rams head above crown] Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: BOSWELL, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson with Samuel Johnson LL. D. Sixth Edition Revised and Corrected. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1813. (220 x 135 mm) pp. 460. Full calf binding. Marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Frontispiece. Historic repair to hinge. Corners bumped. MB309
Seller: Mobilis Books, Geneva, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: The Sixth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Engraved frontispiece of James Boswell, Esq. "Engraved from an original picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Published August 26th, 1807." Containing some poetical pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published. A series of his conversation, literary anecdotes, and opinions of men and books: with an authentic account of the distresses and escape of the Grandson of King James II, in the year 1746. VG- in full calf stamped in gilt with 2 black leather labels on spine. Leather worn and edge-rubbed. Scarce. The Sixth Edition, Revised and Corrected.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1625.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 5 volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall. A very finely bound set in full Regency 'Russia' calf with twin gilt raised bands and superb gilt and blind tooling to the panels and boards, so typical of the period. The celebrated image by Joshua Reynolds serves as frontispiece, which is offset onto the title page, otherwise a fabulous set in pristine condition of possibly the greatest of all biographies.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom