Using material from Boswell's private papers, which he felt unable to divulge, this is a minutely-detailed portrait of Samuel Johnson, the father of English letters. It ranges from the eccentric schoolboy in Lichfield, to the Grub Street hack, and finally to the legendary figure of Fleet Street.
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Using material from Boswell's private papers, which he felt unable to divulge, this is a minutely-detailed portrait of Samuel Johnson, the father of English letters. It ranges from the eccentric schoolboy in Lichfield, to the Grub Street hack, and finally to the legendary figure of Fleet Street.
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Add this copy of The Personal History of Samuel Johnson to cart. $3.55, good condition, Sold by Alibris rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 1971 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Stated First U.S. Edition in original dust jacket. Very clean orange cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Tasteful previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. A newspaper advertisement for the book with a Washington Post review is lightly taped to a blank fly leaf, as is a review of the book by Peter Gardner. On the half title page are some interesting notes of a reader--all in light pencil and written very small and neat. Text pages are clean-no writing or underlining. Illustrated with black and white plates. 364 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is price clipped, has fading to background on spine, shallow chipping to spine ends; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An absorbing account of Samuel Johnson's private life, his work, pleasures and pronouncements in a most minutely detailed portrait since Boswell's.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Printing of this edition printed for the members of the Readers Union, 1973. The life of the famous Doctor Johnson, a major literary figure in the second half of the 18th century in England; a lexigrapher (Johnson's Dictionary), essayist, poet, moralist. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket, Mylar jacket cover. 364 pages. Brown cloth with sharp and bright gilt lettering on spine; very clean and unmarked; lower corners bumped. Tight, solid sewn binding, square. Pages clean, no marks, not tears; moderately toned. Title page has a black crayon mark that looks like something scribbled out. Thirty-nine illustrations. 364 pages. 8vo 1973, Readers Union/Redwood Press Limited. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK.
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. 0060118792. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Sunning to d/j. Rubbing on edges.; 8.299999991534000 X 5.799999994084000 X 1.499999998470000 inches; 364 pages.
