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James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson Vol II. J M Dent & Co, 1901.
Price: US$7.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition. Blue leather bound, faded gilt titles on spine, blue boards with slight rubbing on spine ends and corners, Previous owner inscription 329pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, some tanning to pages.
Seller: Henfold Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three volumes (Complete set). Covers and spines show only slight wear, but front inner hinge of Volume One is cracked. Gilding on top of each volume. Paper labels are browned. Inside pages have only occasional minor blemishes. Each volum has sticker of Calvin Hosmer, Jr., American architexct and flour dealer.
Seller: Biographies Unlimited, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Front inner hinge of Volume One is cracked. Top spine end of Volume One has a small split extending into the spine label. For all three volumes, the front and rear blanks and the half-title pages have varying amounts of foxing. Spine labels are browned. The one on Volume Three has a very small scrape. ; In three volumes.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1901.
Price: US$31.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Type: Book Maps to endpapers.
Seller: Fireside Bookshop, Stroud, GLOS, United Kingdom
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, Three Volumes. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1901.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: J. M. Dent & Sons January 1901 Binding: Hardcover 3 volumes complete, very good
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Life of Samuel Johnson (three volume set) Edited with Notes by Arnold Glover of the Inner Temple James Boswell J M Dent & Sons, London, 1901, reprint, hardbacks, VG, sea green cloth, gilt monograph to front, gilt title to spine, top page edges colour printed, endpapers illustrated with London street plan. Illustrated with about one hundred drawings in pen and ink by Herbert Railton. Introduction by Austin Dobson. Light shelf wear, no inscriptions, bindings sound, small nick on spine foot of volume one. Nice tidy set. Very heavy - UK delivery only. 43824 ANTI Biog / J 28.50
Seller: Daisyroots Books, GRANGE OVER SANDS, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$36.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Life of Samuel Johnson (three volume set) Edited with Notes by Arnold Glover of the Inner Temple James Boswell J M Dent & Sons, London, 1901, reprint, hardbacks, VG, sea green cloth, gilt monograph to front, gilt title to spine, top page edges colour printed, endpapers illustrated with London street plan. Illustrated with about one hundred drawings in pen and ink by Herbert Railton. Introduction by Austin Dobson. Light shelf wear, no inscriptions, bindings sound, small nick on spine foot of volume one. Nice tidy set. Very heavy - UK delivery only. 43824 ANTI Biog / J 28.50
Seller: Daisyroots Books, GRANGE OVER SANDS, CMA, United Kingdom
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. (Three Volume Set). J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1901.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three Volume Set. Very mildly sunned on spine. Volume One's hinge is starting to crack at first free end page, but is still fully attached. Otherwise very good condition over-all, with brightly gilded top page blocks. Additional shipping fees may be necessary due to combined weight.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
BOSWELL, James. GLOVER, Arnold (ed.). The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.. J. M. Dent, London, 1901.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. 3 vols. With one hundred illustrations by Herbert Railton and many portraits. Large 8vo, publisher's green cloth with gilt vellum spine labels. Large Paper Edition; No. 172 of 350 copies for America. Spine labels chipped at corners and dust-soiled; light use; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited, large paper, edition, #195 of 350 copies printed for America. Hardcover, 3 volume set. Edited by Arnold Glover of the Inner Temple with an introduction by Austin Dobson, with one hundred illustrations and many portraits. Very good, blue cloth with white paper title labels, with gilt lettering and decoration, on spines. Slightly darkened spines and deckle page edges. Small bumps to bottom front corner of Vol. I, front board fore-edge of Vol II, and top front corner of Vol. III.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. J.M. Dent & Co, London, 1901.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 458,464,466pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Map endsheets and pastedowns. All volumes very good or better. Illustrated with numerous photogravures. Classic work, that was from the beginning a critical and popular success, and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography. It is notable for its extensive reports of Johnson's conversation.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Original gilt decorated green cloth; octavos (7 x 9 inches); xl, 458; viii, 464; viii, 466 pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Shelf wear (no rubbing through the cloth), and light soil, else Very Good. Apparantly unread, as foredges of pages uncut in each volume. Book.
Seller: The Book Merchant, LLC, Stillwater, OK, U.S.A.
James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D.. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1901.
Price: US$127.84 + shipping
Description: ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 3.5kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback. Physically 9" x 6¼" (3.5 kg); (xxxi/viii/viii) 458/464/466pp; Index; Edited by Arnold Glover; Illustrated by Herbert Railton; Preface by Austin Dobson; Contains: Black & white plates; Top edges gilt; Maps; Maps to the endpapers and blanks; Portrait to the frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #180079|| Condition: Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the bindings of all three volumes. Rough cut edges a little dull and grubby. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned with very light spotting. A nice set overall.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson [3 Vols., Complete]. J. M. Dent & Co, London, 1901.
Price: US$187.94 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Bound in green cloth with gilt decoration to spine and front board, gilt to top edge. Illustrated with colour frontis., black and white illustrations in the text and black and white plates. Some light shelf rubbing to cloth.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson [3 volume set]. J. M. Dent, London, 1901.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three volume set. 22.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. xl 458pp, viii 464pp, viii 466pp. Edited by Arnold Glover, with an introduction by Austin Dobson. With approximately 100 illustrations by Herbert Railton. Bound into 1/2 red leather, gilt spine lettering. There is some fading and rubbing to the spines. Suning to the back cover of volume 1.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, Three Volumes. J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1901.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in half leather and cloth covered boards, gilt ruled covers. Four raised bands on the spines. Spines are sunned, stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities. Frontispieces and illustrations throughout.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Dent, London, 1901.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: THREE VOLUMES. Eidited by Arnold Glover, with an Introduction by Austin Dobson. 100 Illustrations by Herbert Railton, plus many portraits. xl + 458pp., viii + 464pp., viii + 466pp., large, thick 8vo, cloth, with decorative paper spine labels; unopened, covers lightly rubbed. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1901. A very good(+) set. One of 350 numbered copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo. Bound in three quarter brown morocco and gilt spine, t.e.g. by McDonald. Some rubbing. VG Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$318.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Leather scuffed to extremities, base edges foxed, top gilt edges slightly dusty, front hinges cracked. Otherwise clean and tight. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson 3 volumes. J. M. Dent London 1901, 1901.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Description: 1st ed. thus 3/4 leather Fine octavo xl + 458, viii + 464, viii + 466pp., frontis., b/w pls., index, Beautifully bound set. Red leather over red boards. Some rubbing to leather o/w lovely bright, tight almost unopened set
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. J. M. Dent & Co., 1901.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3 Vols, complete. 11/350 Green cloth over boards. Paper label on spine with gilt. Spines are tanned. Corners are bumped. Deckle edges. Illustrated endpapers. Many pages still uncut. Some light foxing on edges and endpapers. Illustrated throughout.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson L.L.D.. J. M. Dent & Co, London, 1901.
Price: US$559.69 + shipping
Description: A smartly bound illustrated edition of this well-known biography of English writer Samuel Johnson. Complete in three volumes. The first Railton edition. Volume one is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, six photogravure portrait plates, and many in-text images. Volume two is illustrated with a frontispiece, five portrait plates, and many in-text images. Volume three is illustrated with a frontispiece, six portrait plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. The life of Samuel Johnson, or Dr Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Written by his friend James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer best known for this work. Edited by Arnold Glover, a British book editor. With an introduction by Henry Austin Dobson, an English poet and essayist. Illustrated by Herbert Railton, an English artist and leading black and white illustrator in his day. Bound in half red calf with red cloth boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Some of the text block remains unopened. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$731.41 + shipping
Description: First Railton edition, number 149 of 350 copies. One of the most attractive illustrated editions of Boswell's great book, this issue comprised a "large paper edition. strictly limited to three hundred and fifty copies for America". The ODNB states that Herbert Railton (1857-1910) combined "picturesque subject matter and delicate penwork [which] greatly appealed to the general public. According to the critic and novelist Frank Swinnerton, Railton was fond of a drink and drew better in a 'state of expansiveness'". 3 volumes, octavo. Original vellum, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, illustrated map endpapers. With 30 photogravure portraits together with black and white illustrations within the text by Railton. Very minor soiling to vellum, occasional light foxing, some wear to marker ribbons: a near-fine set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
BOSWELL, James. Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. The. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1901, 1901.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: Boswells' Life of Johnson Illustrated by Herbert Railton Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of over Six Hundred Portraits and Scenes etc. Extended from Three to Seven Volumes Handsomely Bound by F.J.Pfister of New York BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Edited by Arnold Glover of the Inner Temple with an introduction by Austin Dobson. With one hundred illustrations by Herbert Railton and many portraits. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1901. Three octavo volumes extended to seven (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 222 x 152 mm.). Extra-illustrated by the insertion of over six hundred plates including many portraits and scenes by various artists, at least one original letter (complete with envelope), pages from books and periodicals contemporary to the events being related by Boswell (including The Gentleman's Magazine), notices of marriages and deaths, bookseller catalogues, auction catalogues, etc., some items with hand-written captions, many mounted onto stiff paper with decorative borders. Bound by Pfister of New York ca. 1901. Full red morocco, covers elaborately stamped in gilt, spines with five raised bands, decorative gilt inside borders, mottled pink endleaves. With the bookplate of Robert Freeman Pick. "At the January dinner of the League, held at the rooms of the Aldine Association, on the evening of January 17, 1900, F.J. Pfister, a well-known New York bookbinder, delivered an interesting address on the art of decorating the covers of books by means of pyrography, or of "burning in" with a heated tool the design with which the cover of a book is to be decorated, instead of impressing it, either blind or gilded, with dies or the ordinary binders' tools. Mr. Pfister pointed out that pyrography is not a recent art, but an ancient process revived." (The Booksellers' League. A History of its formation and ten years of its work. New York, 1905. page 96). With the Ex-Libris in each volume of one "R.F. Pick", his name across an open book laying on two laurel branches and with a small beetle busily eating his way through the pages. Based on the name, the New York bindery, and the design of the Ex-Libris it seems highly likely that our Mr. Pick was the bookseller of that name who had an establishment at 136 E. 34th Street, New York City, and advertised his firm as "Bookseller and Importer" of "Rare and Choice Books". Interestingly, on the same page of the Literary Collector (dated October 1901 to March 1902) on which we find Mr. Pick's advertisement is one for the bindery, F.J. Pfister, directly beneath.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.