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James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.. Limited Editions Club (Curwen Press), 1938.
Price: US$49.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lge 8vo. Publisher's olive green case binding, title labels in red morocco gilt. Copy no.377 of an edition of 1500. An excellent set of this handsome edition, with just slight light fading of backstrips and light rubbing of boards, some tape marks to front pastedown to vol.iii (removal of book plate?) and no slip-case. lviii+(2)+466pp: (6)+486pp: (6)+473+(1)pp. These books are heavy and will require extra postage. Please ask for a quote.
Seller: Richard Senior, Periers, France
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete three volume set. Limited edition, number 1030 of 1500 copies. Lacking slipcase. Olive buckram binding. Leather title labels to spines, with rubbing, also fading to label on Volume III. Fading to spines. Some stains to boards. A couple of very light stains to outer page edges. Good solid bindings, very clean text throughout. Overall condition is Good Plus. Please Note: This is a very heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate - a postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Please contact us for an accurate postage cost for your location. Size: 6.5 x 10 inches (16.5 x 25 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. lviii, [4], 466; [2], 486; [2], 473
Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three Volume Set, Lacking The Slipcase. Lightly Used, Slight Wear To Books And Spine Labels, Slight Fading To Spine, Small Area Of Laminate Surface Erosion To Volume Iii With Minimal Effect On Coloring And No Damage To Cloth.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol I: lviii + 466pp; Vol II: 486 pp; Vol III: 473 pp. Olive-brown cloth, red morocco spine labels with gilt titles. Spines uniformly faded to mid-brown; labels fine, still bright except Vol I, which shows mild rubbing to gilt (leather is still fine). Bindings all solid and tight, hinges as new, interior condition fine or better. Pages unmarked. Slipcase is present, but is rubbed, faded, and some joints are cracked. It has been repaired with non-yellowing book tape [3M], and so is very serviceable, but no longer particularly handsome. Still, overall a VG++ set in a Good slipcase.
Seller: Posthoc Books [IOBA], Grafton, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.18 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original brown cloth with contrasting gilt-titled red leatherette plates recessed to spine. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright and internally clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description. : 3 v. : fronts. (ports. ) ; 25.5 cm. Notes: "The two sets of Piozzi marginalia which are the special feature of this edition . Are from an 1816 edition of the life (the eighth) now at Harvard, and from an 1807 edition (the fifth) now owned by Colonel Ralph H. Isham." --Pref. , v.1." A chronological catalogue of the prose works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D": v.1, p. [xlix]-lviii. Subject: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Authors, English - 18th century - Biography. Lexicographers - Great Britain - Biography. 1 Kg. Special Edition Printed for the members of the Limited editions club at the Curwen press.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson.. Curwen, London, 1938.
Price: US$98.66 + shipping
Description: London, Curwen Press, 1938. En 4º (250 x 160)mm. 3 volúmenes,-I: lviii-466 pp. -II: 486 pp. -III: 473 pp. Encuadernacià n en tela editorial. Esta es la primera edicià n publicada con las anotaciones marginales de Piozzi.
Seller: Librería José Porrúa Turanzas S.A., Madrid, Spain
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original brown cloth with contrasting gilt-titled red leatherette plates recessed to spine. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright and internally clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description. : 3 v. : fronts. (ports. ) ; 25.5 cm. Notes: "The two sets of Piozzi marginalia which are the special feature of this edition . Are from an 1816 edition of the life (the eighth) now at Harvard, and from an 1807 edition (the fifth) now owned by Colonel Ralph H. Isham." --Pref. , v.1." A chronological catalogue of the prose works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D": v.1, p. [xlix]-lviii. Subject: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Authors, English - 18th century - Biography. Lexicographers - Great Britain - Biography. 1 Kg. Special Edition Printed for the members of the Limited editions club at the Curwen press.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") vols. bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to contain marginalia by Hester Thrale Piozzi; mild sunning to spine edges; w/ original case; no. 891 of 1,500.
Seller: Harmonium Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
BOSWELL, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Limited Editions Club, London, 1938.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to contain marginalia by Hester Thrale Piozzi. Two different copies, one belonging to Colonel Ralph Isham and the other to Harvard bequeathed by Amy Lowell, each annotated by Thrale, were used to create this edition. Copy #65 of 1500 copies illustrated with three frontispieces. Issued unsigned. Spines mildly sunned as almost always the case due to the sensitive linen bindings, with label on the third volume darkened. Near Fine in a complete but broken slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: One of 1500 numbered copies. 3 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth, red leather spine labels. Spines a little faded, else nice set
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
BOSWELL, James. Life of Samuel Johnson. , 1938.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. With Marginal Comments and Markings from Two Copies Annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Prepared for Publication with an Introduction by Edward G. Fletcher. 3 Vols. Orig. cloth, leather spine labels, housed in publisher's slipcase. Frontis. portrait. London: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the Curwen Press, 1938. Limited to 1,500 copies designed by Oliver Simon. Spines very slightly sunned, slight very old water staining to slipcase, else a near fine set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
BOSWELL, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Limited Editions Club, London, 1938.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to contain marginalia by Hester Thrale Piozzi. Two different copies, one belonging to Colonel Ralph Isham and the other to Harvard bequeathed by Amy Lowell, each annotated by Thrale, were used to create this edition. Copy #834 of 1500 copies illustrated with three frontispieces. Issued unsigned. Spines mildly sunned as almost always the case due to the sensitive linen bindings, with some faint stains to the covers of one volume; slight mark and darkening to spine label of third volume. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.