Young Boswell: Chapters on James Boswell the Biographer, Based Largely on New Material
by TINKER, Chauncey Brewster
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. Stated third impression, September 1922. An exploration of the early part of the life of Edinburgh's James Boswell, the noted biographer of Samuel Johnson and author of other highly-praised works. With numerous illustrations, including a tissue-guarded frontis portrait of Boswell. --- In light brown paper-covered boards backed in darker brown cloth with titling on pasted-on tan paper spine label, TEG (top edge gilt). Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- Weakened front & rear hinges have been repaired on this item (but tears to paper at rear gutter area remain, which don't affect the stability of the binding). With mild cover corner bumps & mild chafing to extremities, else a clean, tightly-bound, bright copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [18], 266 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88320
- Title
- Young Boswell: Chapters on James Boswell the Biographer, Based Largely on New Material
- Author
- TINKER, Chauncey Brewster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1922
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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