About this title: The classic biography of Dr. Johnson, by his disciple, James Boswell. The already great reputation of Johnson was sealed with the publication of this book in 1791, and it is largely due to this book that Dr. Johnson is still so well-remembered today. This was long considered the standard English biography of a man of letters, against which all ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Univeristy Press
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780192810717ISBN:0192810715
Description: Fair. Paperback. 3rd Edition. Cover shows moderate to heavy wear to edges, some spine creasing and slope. Page edges show some foxing/soiling. Minor markings on half-title page. Pages are lightly sunned to edges and a few show dogears. Binding is good. 1492 pages. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780192835314ISBN:0192835319
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. cover havs sticker no marks inside perfect study tome. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 1536 p. Oxford World's Classics (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. all 1492 pages of it read more
Description: Very Good. Not a used copy....Some cover and edge wear. Inside text clean, binding tight. No remainder marks. Shipped with delivery confirmation inside US. Selling books since 1979*d/DD1-50. read more
Description: Fine. 0760773483 Not a used copy but....Some surface and edge wear and cover creasing. Inside pages clean, binding tight. No remainder marks. Shipped with delivery confirmation inside US. Selling books since 1979* s/BN-M5-33. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780192835314ISBN:0192835319
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Edition: New Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London
Date Published: 1953
ISBN-13:9780192835314ISBN:0192835319
Description: Good in Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, xxiv, 1491 pp., index; 19 cm. Reprint, 1966. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Faint stain/lower right corner, text block. Dust jacket, with wrinkled laminate, protected in a mylar book cover. A good solid copy. Unabridged. "Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Standard Publications, Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781604249705ISBN:1604249706
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Read Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780760773482ISBN:0760773483
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date Published: 1848
Description: Including their tour to the Hebrides. Edited by The Right Hon. John Wilson Croker. Octavo. Contemporary full purple calf, titles and extra decoration to spine gilt, single morocco title label black, raised bands, elaborate panelled border to front board gilt and blind, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With portraits. Spine is rubbed and edges are worn; small loss of leather to the front board and small crack to the upper hinge. It is still a attractive binding. New Edition. read more
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