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New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Lacks spine label else Very Good condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Number 20 of 50 copies, "Especially prepared for the use of those about whom (at the moment of going to press) the editor is enthusiastic." BOSWELL AND THE GIRL FROM BOTANY BAY, by F. A. Pottle was first published as a separate book [The Viking Press, 1937] and limited to 500 copies. A less expensive alternative is this anthology, where it is included with the addition of new commentary (4 pages) by Alexander Woollcott. This printing of BOSWELL AND THE GIRL FROM BOTANY BAY has the complete text of the original, except for Pottle's preface, end notes, and three illustrations. Also in this anthology [Woolcott's Second Reader] are the following: PREFACE TO "ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS" by Shih Nai-an; THE LADY'S MAID'S BELL by Edith Wharton; JOE by Gustav Eckstein; A CHRISTMAS GARLAND by Max Beerbohm; THE PORTRAIT OF M. M. by D. H. Lawrence; TWO FRIENDS by…
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Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay
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New York: The Viking Press, 1937. First Edit. Original Boards. Very Good. 4to. 56; (ii) pages. Folding map, 2 plates. Original cream paper covered boards black cloth spine in very good condition as is its original decorative paper covered slip case. LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES. The end paper has a newspaper cutting of an obituary to the author neatly tipped-in. Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay was written as a presidential address for the Elizabethan Club of Yale University, and was read to the Club on 4 May 1932.
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- Date Published 1937
- Keywords BOTANY BAY, AUSTRALIA. PRIVATE PRESS.
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Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay [in] Woolcott's Second Reader I [Edition Limited to 50 numbered copies]
by Pottle, Frederick A; (James Boswell); [Alexander Woolcott, editor]
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Boswell and the Girl From Botany Bay
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London: William Heinemann, 1938. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Fine. The tale of Boswell's relations with Mary Broad (or Bryant), the girl from Botany Bay (Australia) from which she had escaped in an open boat. Lge. 8vo, 44pp, b&w folding map & ills. in text. Orig. crimson cloth w/ gilt title fine w. slt. dusty dj w/ several sml. tears.
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William Heinemann, 1938. Book. Good. hardback. hardback, small quarto, red cloth lettered gilt, cloth part faded, light knock to the foot of the spine. A tightly bound copy, small monogrammed leather label to the front pastedown, the text is clean and unmarked, map, two plates, 44pp.
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New York, Viking Press. 1937.
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Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay.
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Viking. Very Good. 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 428 of 500 copies. 56 pp.; 4to; gilt stamped black cloth back and patterned paper over boards, in matching slipcase; folding map; reproductions. Map with 2.5" split from bottom edges at fold, mended with archival tape; moderate tanning along hinges front and back, as well as gutter of title page. Bookplate of book collector Charles Walker Andrews, front pastedown. Externally a very fresh copy. Slipcase darkened at edges. James Boswell, from the first in his professional life as a barrister, had shown extraordinary interest in poor criminals who no one else would defend. Practicing in London, well past the success of his Life of Johnson, Boswell takes an interest in the well being of the unfortunate Mary Broad. .
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New York: Viking Press, 1937. Pottle, the famed expert on Samuel Johnson, explores the link between Boswell and Bligh. This is #35 in a limited edition of 500 copies. Fine condition in publisher's slipcase, which matches the book's binding of black cloth over patterned boards. . 18 x 25.5 cm. 56 pp. b/w plates, folding map
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