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Price: US$11.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1884. GEORGE BELL. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, cream spine, green cloth boards. Spine ends are damaged. Boards are marked. 9x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$11.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1884. GEORGE BELL. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, cream spine, green cloth boards. Spine ends are damaged. Boards are marked. 9x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$11.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1884. GEORGE BELL. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, cream spine, green cloth boards. Spine ends are damaged. Boards are marked. 9x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$18.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 Volumes. Boswell, James (text) & Napier, Alexander (notes & appendices). One page has a neatly repaired tear. Heavy book. If you require delivery outside of Europe, contact us before ordering as there will be extra postage to pay. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Later printing. New editions with notes and appendices by Alexander Napier. 467pp. Illustrated. Gift inscription dated 1924 on front fly, neat owner stamp on a few pages including title page, early pages with tidelines, upper hinge cracked, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, good only. Volume four only of a five-volume set.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: six volumes in total, bound in publishers tan cloth on spines and maroon cloth on boards, covers mostly bumped at corners and some sunning and soiling to cloth, but bindings are sound and tight, brown-spotting at edges and occasionally within, mostly affecting outer leaves. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Glenbower Books, Dublin, Ireland
Price: US$90.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1884. GEORGE BELL. Hardcovers. ACCEPTABLE 5 Volumes. Gilt titles. Quarter leather bound. Patterned boards. AEG. Spines are splitting. Foxing. 9x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. First Edition Thus. Octavo; Vol I lv + 583pp; Vol II xi + 570pp; Vol III xi + 568pp; Vol IV xv + 469pp; Vol V xiii + 432pp. Fifty-three engravings of portraits, dwellings, locales, manuscripts, and signatures dispersed throughout the five volumes; two-color fold-out map in Vol IV. Appendices in every volume. Index to the Life and the Tour in Vol IV; index to the Johnsoniana in Vol V. Teal boards with cloth spines in ivory; gilt spine lettering. Text block top edge roughly trimmed, other edges untrimmed. All panels lightly soiled, without prominent stains. Back panel of Vol V has residue of shelf-adjacent paper volume on upper third. All spines sun-baked to the point of brittleness, with some resulting vertical segments missing, and chipping/tearing to spine crowns and feet. Spine lettering unaffected, for the most part; now protected in mylar. All joints and hinges good. Text blocks unmarred and unmarked, with many unopened pages; light foxing throughout. Map of Hebrides route in Vol IV complete, without misfolds. All engravings and tissue guards present. The major 19th-century "one stop shop" edition for Boswell's Johnson and for the Johnsoniana collected from the Doctor's direct intimates.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Volumes I-IV encompass the Life of Dr. Johnson, Volume V contains The Tour to the Hebrides. Small octavo volumes bound in half-leather (green morocco) with marbled boards & marbled endpapers. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece illustrations, except for Vol. V which has a folding map of Scotland as frontispiece. Condition: minor rubbing & wear to bindings, especially at the spine ends & corners; previous owner's name rubber stamped in Vols. I, II & V; several small lined markings in margins (very few); else in very good condition.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$179.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Five Volumes: lv + 583 w/ errata note; xi + 369; xi + 563; xv + 467 (Jour. of a Tour to the Hebrides); xi + 419 (Johnsoniana). Gilt titles to sp. Frontis. Illus. w/ b/w engaving, some folded-in, and facsm docs. w/ tissue guards. Green cloth bds. w/ grey sp.s. Sp. ends curled. Sp. head ends of vols. ii and iv sl. are sl. chipped. Deckled edges. P/o penned, f.f.e.p., vol. v. E.p.s. tanned. All illus. appear present. Interior leaves are moderately age-toned, else crisp, clean and tight. The celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson LL.D. by the peripatetic Mr. Boswell with A Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides. Includes Johnsoniana, vol. v: "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Mrs. Piozzi, Richard Cumberland, Bishop Percy and Others together with The Diary of Dr. Campbell and Extracts from that of Madame D'Arblay, newly collected and edited by Robina Napier." Notes and appendices by the editor. A very nice set. Extra postage applies.
Seller: Brillig's Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A four volume set of The Life of Samuel Johnson by Boswell, edited by Alexander Napier. 4 Volumes, complete. Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 1784, was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and political conservative. Samuel Johnson is probably most famous for his dictionary. James Boswell, 1740 1795, was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. In cloth binding with gilt lettering. Externally smart. Some wear to the extremities, including bumping and discolouration. Volume 3 has a closed tear to the spine and marks to the front board. There are watermarks to the plates. Volume 3 has several pages unopened to the rear. There are institutional labels to the front pastedown, and institutional ink stamps to the verso of the title page, and the final page of text in each volume. The hinges are strained, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. with the occasional spot and handling marks. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 Vols, illustrated, half calf, title labels inset on brown morocco, gilt decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and page edges, Provenance: bookplate of W. A. Basham and belonged to a 'Joseph Frederick Green, dated 1886', George Bell and Sons, London, 1884.
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of Napier's Boswell, including the Tour of the Hebrides, with Robina Napier's Johnsoniana, "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D. by Prs. Piozzi, Richard Cumberland Bishop Percy and others together with The Diary of Dr, Campbell and extracts from that of Madame d'Arblay". Complete in five volumes. Bound in full tree calf by Mansell, "successor to Hayday", rebacked in 1954 by Bennett Book Studios. The leather Bennett used has weakened, but the linen hinges underneath are sound. The set shows edgewear & chipping, hinges split but sound in volume one; minor sporadic foxing to some pages, particularly the plates. Text clean; lv, [blank], 581; x, [2], 569; ix, [3], 563; xiii, [3], 467; xi, [3], 432 pages; plates, engravings, facsimiles of letters and manuscripts. Includes two letters from dealer & binder Whitman Bennett & a receipt regarding the rebacking in 1954. Size: 5¾" by 8¾"
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Napier's Edition. Number 87 of 104 copies, each signed by the Printer "Charles Whittingham & Co" Extensively extra-illustrated with 50 plates of portraits, views, maps, and facsimile autographs, including 2 fold-outs and an inserted portrait of Johnson. Also includes an inserted issue of the Herald Tribune Weekly Book review, November 19, 1944, reviewing Joseph Wood Krutch's Samuel Johnson. 10 vols. 4to. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. George Bell & Sons took over Charles Whittingham Co. after Whittingham's death in 1876. An attractive copy with many beautiful illustrations. R. B. Adams v.2, p. 41 Bound in three quarters green morocoo, and marbled boards, t.e.g. Very Good, with some discoloration to Vol. 1 Part 1 from the inserted newspaper and some minor foxing from plates Extensively extra-illustrated with 50 plates of portraits, views, maps, and facsimile autographs, including 2 fold-outs and an inserted portrait of Johnson. Also includes an inserted issue of the Herald Tribune Weekly Book review, November 19, 1944, reviewing Joseph Wood Krutch's Samuel Johnson. 10 vols. 4to Napier's Edition. Number 87 of 104 copies, each signed by the Printer "Charles Whittingham & Co".
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.