Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, [ 1968]. Large octavo. Gilt blue cloth. Portrait and illustrations. Second edition, second printing, "with corrections and additions." Top edge dust marked, else very good in lightly used and dust-smudged dust jacket.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1952. Large octavo. Gilt red cloth. Portrait and illustrations. Slight cracking between frontis and title, otherwise very good and bright. Second edition, "from corrected sheets of the second impression" of the 1941 edition, with a new Preface. A good association copy, inscribed on the free.....
[ Philadelphia]: Reprinted from the PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY CVI:4. August 1962. Quarto. Printed wrappers. First separate issue of this essay, as an author's separate. Fine.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. Near fine in unprinted dust jacket, as issued. First edition of the companion volume to first trade publication by the future editor of the Boswell papers.
New York: American Heritage / McGraw-Hill, [ 1973]. Large octavo. Cloth. Illustrations. First American edition. Bookplate, else a nice copy in dust jacket.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. Pictorial cloth. Fine in very faintly edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket. First edition of the author's first clothbound book, a revised form of his dissertation. With the bookplate of novelist / historian Paul Horgan, and the author's presentation inscription: 'for Paul with thanks for his.....
London: James Carpenter, 1842. Quarto. Lithographed frontis, title-page and plates (some tinted). Original green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Tips and lower spine extremities slightly frayed, a few soft creases to a couple leaves, minor occasional foxmarks to the plates, otherwise a very good, bright copy. First printing of.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, [ 1952]. Gilt cloth and boards. Portrait and plates. First trade edition. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Frederick W. Hilles. A sound reading copy, without dust jacket.
New York: McGraw-Hill, [ 1952]. Gilt cloth and boards. Portrait and plates. First trade edition. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Frederick W. Hilles. Tiny nick in shelf-edge of lower board, else very good in somewhat edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1929. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait and plates. First edition. Top edge dusty, otherwise near very good in darkened, nicked and lightly soiled.
New York: Scribner, [ 1959]. Cloth and boards. New edition, with an Introduction by George Dangerfield. A very good copy in lightly tanned dust jacket with small nick.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1925. viii,200pp,[2]. Small octavo. Gilt cloth. Later printing of the pocket edition, first published in Morley's ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS series. Some soiling to lower board, otherwise very good with minor rubbing to spinal extremities and a few pencil notes on rear endsheets.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [ 1964]. Gilt cloth boards. Illustrations. First edition. Crown of spine bumped, otherwise very good in slightly used, price-clipped dust jacket.
London: Putnam, [ 1922]. Large octavo. Gilt brown cloth, t.e.g. Portrait and plates. British issue of the first edition, from U.S. sheets. Upper cover slightly bubbled, crown of spine bumped, bookplates, otherwise a nice, bright copy.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, [ 1922]. Large octavo. Gilt brown cloth, t.e.g. Portrait and plates. First edition. With the author's early presentation inscription, incorporating a quote from Boswell, on the front endsheet. Cloth lightly flecked at extremities, small nick at crown of spine, otherwise very good and bright.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, [ 1922]. Large octavo. Gilt brown cloth, t.e.g. Portrait and plates. First edition. With the author's early presentation inscription on the front endsheet. Some dulling to cloth, endsheets a bit dusty, small splashmark at lower edge of prelims; a good, sound copy.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1948. 161pp. Grey cloth. First collective edition of some of Tinker's essays on Johnson, Morris, Trollope, etc. Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication. Light offset to endsheets from laid-in clipping, else a very good copy in lightly edgeworn dust.....
New York: Macmillan, 1915. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Frontis, plates. First edition. A few pencil notes, light foxing to a few of the plates, relevant illustration tipped on to rear free endsheet, with offsetting to the pastedown, extremities lightly rubbed, but a near very good copy.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926. Thick octavo. Cloth. Illustrations. First edition. Bookplate removed, top edge dusty, spine ends and corners faintly worn, else near fine, lacking the dust jacket.
[ London]: Macmillan, [ 1974]. Large octavo. Gilt cloth boards. Plates. First edition. Poet/publisher Cid Corman's copy, with his dated ink signature (and brother's blindstamp) and extensive marginal highlights and notations. A very good copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
[ London]: Macmillan, [ 1974]. Large octavo. Gilt cloth boards. Plates. First edition. A bit dusty, otherwise very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with small scratchmark in front panel.
Edinburgh [i.e. Oxford]: Printed for Archibald Monro & David Murray [by William Jackson], 1753. [8],144pp. Octavo. Neatly bound in modern calf and marbled boards, gilt label. Early ink name in margin of title and on preserved old binder's blank, light offsetting to corners of prelims from earlier binding, otherwise a......
Dublin: Printed by Richard Marchbank, for the Editor, Edward-Athenry Whyte, 1799. [8],[iii]-ix,[1],188,[4],[41]-56,[1]-8pp. Octavo. Extracted from old binding, title detached, occasional foxing, faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, otherwise a good copy, suitable for binding to taste. First edition. Bound, as often, without the "Essay on the Art of.....
London: Ward and Downey, 1888. Two volumes. vii,[1],352;[2],327[16]pp. Gilt decorated blue cloth. Portrait. First edition. Bookplate (and traces of removal of another) in each volume, light foxing early and late, otherwise a very good, bright set.
New York: Reader's Digest Press / E.P. Dutton, 1974. Cloth and paper over boards. Illustrations. First (U.S.) edition. Top edge slightly dusty, else very good dust jacket with slight ink offset on upper panel.
