Boswell lf (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:9780632021994.…

Zustand: Very Good. 1959. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Cloth covers, tanned pages, some scoring in pencil, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Very Good. 1959. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Cloth covers, tanned pages, some scoring in pencil, remains very good. . . . .

Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VERY GOOD. Revised and Enlarged Edition. xlv, [3], 556; [6], 543; [6], 541; [6], 557; xxvii, [3], 596; xii, [2], 496 pp. 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt spine titles and ruled head and tail. Frontispiece portraits to all vols. Vols 1-4 are 1934 first printings of the Powell revised edition. Vols. 5 & 6 are 1964 Second Edition with errata slips. Vols 1-4 show some light rubbing to extremities, vols 1& 2 fore edges dampstained. Volumes 5 & 6 are inscribed by the preeminent Johnson/Boswell collector Mary Hyde: ?For the Courage Library in rememberance of our unforgetable visit - Mary Hyde and Lila Tyng, 19 September 1974.? Hyde's collection, begun with her husband Donald Hyde and continually expanded until her death in 2003, has been described as "just one of the world's great archives of eighteenth-century English literature, with more than 4,000 books and 5,500 letters and manuscripts. Still more important, it is the world's best collection of documents relating to the life and work of Samuel Johnson" - Adam Kirsch. The collection was placed in Harvard's Houghton Library in 2004. In the preface to vol. VI, Lawrence F. Powell writes, "My friends in America have been generous in their aid. I mention, in particular, Dr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, whose library at Four Oaks Farm, Somerville, New Jersey, is the Mecca of All Johnsonians.".…