DOCTOR JOHNSON AND HIS WORLD.
London: Thames and Hudson, [ 1968]. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Ink ownership inscription on free endsheet, otherwise very good or better in dust jacket.
Boswell & Johnson
DOCTOR JOHNSON AND HIS WORLD.
New York: Viking Press, [ 1968]. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First U.S. issue, bound up from British sheets. Edges dusty discolored, faint offset to endsheets, but a good, sound copy in somewhat worn dust jacket.
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
New York: Harper & Row, [ 1971]. Gilt cloth. Plates. First U.S. edition. Top edge dusty, otherwise very good in dust jacket with two closed tears at lower edge of the front panel.
JOHNSON CLUB PAPERS BY VARIOUS HANDS.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Gilt polished buckram, t.e.g. Portrait and plates. First edition, U.S. issue, bound up from British sheets, with extra inserted U.S. title-leaf. Spine faintly darkened, light rubbing at edges, bookplate, lacks front free endsheet, else very good. Lionel Johnson contributes a poem...
FOOTSTEPS OF DR. JOHNSON (SCOTLAND).
London: Sampson Low [et al], 1890. Large, thick quarto. Three quarter roan and gilt cloth, t.e.g. Portrait. Plates and illustrations by Lancelot Speed. First edition, ordinary issue. As usual, the hinges after the endsheets are cracked due to the inordinate weight of the text-block and have been neatly mended, extremities.....
NEW LIGHT ON DR. JOHNSON ESSAYS ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 250th BIRTHDAY.
[ Hamden, CT]: Archon Books, 1967. Gilt cloth. Illustrations. First Archon printing. Spine cocked, top edge dust marked, indentation in fore-edge of a few leaves, but a good, sound, working copy in dust jacket.
THE IMPOSSIBLE FRIENDSHIP BOSWELL AND MRS. THRALE.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Small quarto. Gilt cloth. Plates. First edition. Top edge dust-marked, otherwise about fine in dust jacket.
THE IMPOSSIBLE FRIENDSHIP BOSWELL AND MRS. THRALE.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Small quarto. Gilt cloth. Plates. First edition. A near fine copy in good, somewhat sunned and tanned dust jacket with internal mend at crown of spine.
SAMUEL JOHNSON'S EARLY BIOGRAPHERS.
Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa, [ 1971]. Gilt cloth. Portraits. First edition. Modest discoloration to top edge, else a bright, tight copy in acetate dust jacket.
PRINTING TECHNOLOGY, LETTERS & SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 1987. Cloth. Plates. First edition. Bookplate, else a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a small scrape to the upper panel and light use at corners. An interesting work that traces the impact of print technology of the Eighteenth Century on literary culture.
SAMUEL JOHNSON & HIS WORLD.
New York: Harper & Row, [ 1975]. Small quarto. Gilt cloth, endpaper maps. Plates and illustrations. First U.S. edition, bound up from British sheets. Top edge foxed, fore-edge discolored, but a good, sound copy in worn dust jacket.
THE BRITISH LOOK AT AMERICA IN THE AGE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON AN ADDRESS... DELIVERED AT THE 28th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATES OF THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY...[wrapper title].
[ Providence]: Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1971. 16pp. Small quarto. Printed stapled self-wrappers. Light overall use, verso of terminal leaf tanned, otherwise a very good, sound copy.
THE BRITISH LOOK AT AMERICA DURING THE AGE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON AN EXHIBITION WITH AN ADDRESS BY....
Providence: Brown University, 1971. vi,55,[3]pp. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Black & white facsimile reproductions. Maps. Wrappers have a few small creases and light edge wear, else very good. First edition. An annotated exhibition catalogue of 118 items, accompanied by Liebert's address.
JOHNSON AND THE BRUTE CREATION AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANIMALS HE KNEW AND HIS ATTITUDE TOWARDS THEM [wrapper title].
[New Haven: Yale University Printing Service], 1982. Small quarto. Printed self-wrapper. Headpiece. Facsimile. One of 250 copies on Mohawk paper printed for the annual dinner of the Johnsonians to commemorate the 273rd birthday of Dr. Samuel Johnson on 17 September, 1982. Some spots and light creases to upper wrapper, else.....
THE BRITISH LOOK AT AMERICA DURING THE AGE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON AN EXHIBITION WITH AN ADDRESS BY HERMAN W. LIEBERT.
Providence, RI: The John Carter Brown Library, 1972. vi,55,[3]p Small quarto. Stiff printed wraps. Seventeen b&w plates. Penciled ownership inscription on lower margin of half-title, publisher's slip laid in. About fine. First edition. The catalog of the exhibition lists 118 books and works of graphic art. Address delivered by Liebert.....
DR. JOHNSON AND COMPANY.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. Gilt cloth. Frontis. First edition. Spine sunned and chipped at crown, but a sound copy, without dust jacket.
DR. JOHNSON AND THE LAW.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1948. Gilt cloth. First edition. Ink ownership inscription on pastedown (obscured by jacket flap), faint foxing to edges and endsheets, otherwise very good in dust jacket.
AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
London: Printed for T. Longman [et al], 1793. 187pp. Large octavo. Contemporary calf. A later impression of the first separate edition of 1792. Early pencil notes, upper board detached and spine ends chipped, otherwise internally a very good copy.
MR. ODDITY SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.
Drexel Hill, PA: Bell Publishing Company, [ 1951]. Gilt cloth. First edition. Fore-tips lightly bumped, otherwise very good in price- clipped, somewhat edgeworn and dust-smudged dust jacket.
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. DURING THE LAST TWENTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1786. viii,306,[2]pp. Octavo. Contemporary three quarter morocco and boards. Bound with the half-title, and without the errata slip found pasted to X2r in some copies. Light foxing, extremities somewhat rubbed, some foxing and occasional slight spotting, but a very good copy, with quite a number.....
LUCY PORTER TO DR. JOHNSON: HER ONLY KNOWN LETTER NOW REPRODUCED FROM THE ORIGINAL.
[N.p.]: Privately printed for The Johnsonians, 1979. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers, sewn. Facsimiles.Some tanning to extreme edges and spine, else very good or better. First edition. Introduction by James L. Clifford. One of two hundred copies printed on Curtis rag paper by the Stinehour Press and The Meriden Gravure Company for.....
THE CONVERSATIONS OF DR. JOHNSON SELECTED FROM THE "LIFE" BY JAMES BOSWELL.
New York: The Vanguard Press, [ 1930]. Cloth. First Vanguard edition. Spine faintly darkened and lightly worn at ends, but very good, without dust jacket.
THE CONVERSATIONS OF DR. JOHNSON EXTRACTED FROM THE LIFE BY JAMES BOSWELL.
New York: Taplinger, [ 1970]. Large octavo. Gilt boards. First Taplinger edition, bound up from British sheets with a cancel title-leaf. Top edge foxed, else very good in edge-worn dust jacket.
SAMUEL JOHNSON HIS FRIENDS AND ENEMIES.
New York: American Heritage Press / McGraw-Hill, [ 1973]. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First U.S. edition, bound up from British sheets. Top edge dusty, small sticker shadow on front pastedown, but very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A LAYMAN'S RELIGION.
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1964. Gilt cloth. Portrait. First edition. Edges a bit smudged and dust-marked, else very good in price-clipped, nicked and frayed dust jacket.