powell l b ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: NEAR FINE. xvi, 396pp. Very light scuff to front cover. Trivial edge wear. Clean and unmarked copy.

Paperback. Zustand: G+. Fifth Edition. 8vo. A good copy. 63pp. Page edges browned, small chip out of top of title page. Pencil annotations to list of "writers" page. nd but assume pub during 2nd world war. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

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.".