Edited by roger ingpen (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a clean three volume set each signed by the owner, but otherwise unmarked. The red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering are slightly faded and the pages are browning due to age.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. 3 Volumes 10 X 7 3/4 inches, HB NODJ, 1925, 1st edition with new preface, Beige tweed embossed cloth with minor rub & wear & very slight soil, Interior Nice, Tight Clean Minor Wear, VG+/VG, AS-IS, NODJ.

Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Corners bumped, spine ends worn and rubbed, 3rd vol. Shaken, spines toned, but overall a very good clean set. ; All vols. Uniform gilt illustrated red cloth 4tos, gilt lettering spines, frontispieces. Vol. 1: (1709-November 10, 1769) 364pp. Vol. 2: (1770-April 8, 1778) 397pp. Vol. 3: (1778-December 13, 1784) 409pp, chronology, index. Pages uncut. Includes 576 illustrations, facsimiles and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: No dust jackets. Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1925. 3 separate volumes, complete. Near Very Good condition. Light cover soil. Previous owner's names on front endpaper. Internally Very Good to Fine. SEE OUR PHOTOS. Pages are clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. 1925. Reissue of the 1907 edition, with a substantial new preface by the editor giving much of interest on "recent results of the labours and researches of admirers of Johnson." This is an important edition as it contains 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure. The (London) Times reviewer stated: "The raison d'etre of this edition is its illustrations. Of these there are portraits from authentic originals, views from old prints, autographs, facsimile title-pages. a series of views of Johnson's old haunts. Mr. Ingpen's literary contribution consists of short notes to the pictures, and his industry in collecting illustrative material." From another review: "The appearance of a new edition of the greatest biography in the English language is a literary event of some consequence. The idea. has been to annotate the work with illustrations, each picture being supplied with a full descriptive note. The portraits are those of practically all the men and women of note in literature in Johnson's day, and many of those who were famous in art, drama, and social life. Some of these, it should be said, are now reproduced for the first time." Uniformly bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in bright gold over black spine labels. Oversize Hardcover. 7.75" wide by 10" tall by 3.25" thick. This heavy 3 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the other 2 volumes at no extra cost. . Oversize Hardcover. Near Very Good condition/No dust jackets. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 3 volumes: 1,172pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. Two volume set, hardcover, light yellowing to vellum spines, name to each front endpaper, light toning to pages, otherwise both are crisp, tight, Near Fine copies in dustjackets which are tanned and worn on the spine, jacket for vol. I has an inch wide chip to the midspine and a few small chips and tears to the spine panel, jacket for vol. II has a few tears and dampspots to the spine panel, outer panels of the dustjackets have tanned due to contact with the slipcase, otherwise dustjackets are in nice shape with little wear but light soiling, slipcase is missing the rear board and rather worn. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good++ condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: No dust jackets. Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1925. 3 separate volumes, complete. SEE OUR PHOTOS. Very Good++ condition. Sharp corners. One small spot on the spine of Vol. 1. NO owner's name or bookplate. Internally Near Fine. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. 1925. Reissue of the 1907 edition, with a substantial new preface by the editor giving much of interest on "recent results of the labours and researches of admirers of Johnson." This is an important edition as it contains 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure. The (London) Times reviewer stated: "The raison d'etre of this edition is its illustrations. Of these there are portraits from authentic originals, views from old prints, autographs, facsimile title-pages. a series of views of Johnson's old haunts. Mr. Ingpen's literary contribution consists of short notes to the pictures, and his industry in collecting illustrative material." From another review: "The appearance of a new edition of the greatest biography in the English language is a literary event of some consequence. The idea. has been to annotate the work with illustrations, each picture being supplied with a full descriptive note. The portraits are those of practically all the men and women of note in literature in Johnson's day, and many of those who were famous in art, drama, and social life. Some of these, it should be said, are now reproduced for the first time." Uniformly bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in bright gold over black spine labels. Oversize Hardcover. 7.75" wide by 10" tall by 3.25" thick. This heavy 3 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the other 2 volumes at no extra cost. . Oversize Hardcover. Very Good++ condition/No dust jackets. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 3 volumes: 1,172pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore).…

1907. (Hardcover) Very good plus. 1172pp. Green 3 / 4 leather over green cloth boards and with raised bands on the spine. Coated yellow endpapers, speckled edges, 306 illustrations and 6 photogravure plates, Boswell's bibliography of Johnson's prose works, index. Internally fine and with only minor scuffing to the spine. Bibliography of Samuel Johnson. Edited with annotation by Roger Ingpen. (Biography).…

Leather Bound. Condizione: Very Good. Newly edited edition. 1172pp. Quarto [24 cm] 3/4 red leather with pale green cloth, raised bands, and gilt stamping on the spines. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed and subtly sunned. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Presentation bookplates awarding diligent study with the seal of Harvard University in New England on the front pastedowns. The awardee is Roberto Lee Walker- most likely American physicist Robert Lee Walker (1919-2005), who matriculated at Harvard in 1937, and transferred a year later to the University of Chicago. After a brief time there as a graduate student, he joined the Manhattan Project. He also worked at Los Alamos. After the war, he continued his graduate work at Cornell, earning his PhD in 1948. He joined the Caltech faculty in 1949 as assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 1953, full professor in 1959, and emeritus professor in 1981. He died in Tesuque, New Mexico. Newly edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. With 576 illustrations, facsimiles and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure. A handsome edition, profusely illustrated, of this famous biography. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Quarto, 2 volumes; 1172pp. (all), illustrated. A fine, fresh, handsome set, bound by Bayntun (naturally, and yes, the binding is signed) in 3/4 deep navy morocco and blue cloth, with raised bands, gilt compartments and spine titles, marbled endpapers, and top edge gilt. Slightest rubbing to extremities, but a very nice set. Supremely attractive set of this well-illustrated edition of perhaps the greatest biography ever written. A contemporary inscription on a front blank in volume I notes how scarce the book was in the open market, even within a year of publication, and how lucky he was to have been able to buy it. He seems to have written this note to himself, as his ownership inscription also appears in the second volume. …