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Edinburgh: William Smellie, 1785. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. First Edition, printed for author Arnot (1749-1786) by Smellie; 4to, rebacked, new leather spine and hinges strengthened with red cloth, with original boards and endpapers; good+ (leather on boards scraped, chipped, scratched, stained, worn, and discolored; edges of boards worn to boards in spot, very bottom edge of rear board almost completely worn to board; edges toned and soiled; brown stain spot to top edge, affects pp141-74; eps toned and discolored; top corner of ffep chipped off and creased; owner's name in pen and pencil on verso of ffep; top corner of first blank flyleaf creased, worn, and torn off; crease to top corners of first twenty pages; word crossed out and name written in ink on page vi; pencil note and underline to p55; pencil notation to margin of p57; brown streaks to pp141-58 and 337-49; stain to side edge affects edges of pp339-93; two tears and crease to side edge of rfep; light foxing and soiling to… Read More

New York: PowerHouse Books, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. NF/VG+. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 8vo, Illustrated cover matches dust jacket. nf, (minimal bumping at head of forward hinge, cover corners un-dented, clean and sharp) in vg+ dj, (some creasing to head at front hinge, corners creased and rubbed) 191pp

New York: Basic Books Publishers, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/VG+. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 8vo. Black cloth over boards, blue gilt lettering on spine. vg+ (some bumping to spine tail, corners of boards rubbed and dented, tail of both boards rubbed, light soiling on outer text block, binding is tight) in vg+ dj (protected in mylar sleeve, slight bumping at spine) 367pp

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/VG-. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Black cloth spine over red boards, gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. vg, (spine ends lightly bumped, edges of text block sunfaded and dustsoiled) in vg- dj (edges crimped at spind ends, slight rubbing from shelf, no tears) 295pp

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. VG/VG-. Hardcover, in dust jacket. 12mo. black cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine. THIRD printing, vg, (spine ends bumped, some soiling on pp. 176 and 177, minimal denting to board corners) in vg- dj, (edges worn and creased, sun fading to top edge, heavy wearing to inner at spine) 320pp

London: Tabaret Press, 1974. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Limited First Edition, No. 42 of 100 copies; from a BBC Radio Four broadcast on June 1, 1972; 8vo, white paper covers; vg (covers toning and dustsoiled; creasing to top and bottom corners from cover to cover, affects pages; edgeworn); 37pp of transcipt.