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The Personal History of Samuel Johnson
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The Personal History of Samuel Johnson Hardcover - 1971

by HIBBERT, Christopher

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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0060118792 . Stated first U.S. edition, 1971. Per the jacket flap, Christopher Hibbert's work provides the first minutely detailed life of Samuel Johnson since that of James Boswell. Much of the content includes details not known to Boswell, or which he didn't care to share. With a section of plates bearing black & white photos depicting scenes and people in Johnson's life. --- In full orange cloth-covered boards with Johnson facsimile signature to cover, & spine titling, both in gilt. Volume features image of Johnson to front panel, Hibbert to back. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy with prior owner's inked notations to front free endpaper, else bright, tightly-bound and otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket with slight chafing to extremities, but no other obvious damaes; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiv, 364 pages .
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  • Title The Personal History of Samuel Johnson
  • Author HIBBERT, Christopher
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First US Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
  • Pages 364
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
  • Date 1971
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 88314
  • ISBN 9780060118792 / 0060118792
  • Library of Congress subjects Critics - Great Britain - Biography, Johnson, Samuel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 70138734
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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