Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector, being, a Light-Hearted Collection of Recently Reveal'd Episodes in the Career of the Great Lexicographer Narrated as from the Pen of James Boswell
by De la Torre, Lillian
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (price clipped). NO chips. Two 1/4 inch closed tears. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. 1946. "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page, with NO indication of any other printing. Frontispiece is a color illustration of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Bound in the original gilt-stamped cinnamon (i.e. dark orange) cloth. [NOTE: beware of copies in blue cloth offered as first editions; they are book club]. Complete with dust jacket. "[T]he finest series of historical detective stories ever written. in scholarship, humor, flavor, and compelling detail." -- QUEEN'S QUORUM 100. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Goldstone 786. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 MIDNIGHTS, pp. 195-96. . First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good jacket (price clip). Illus. by Chappell, Warren (jacket design). xi, 258pp.
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- Title
- Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector, being, a Light-Hearted Collection of Recently Reveal'd Episodes in the Career of the Great Lexicographer Narrated as from the Pen of James Boswell
- Author
- De la Torre, Lillian
- Illustrator
- Chappell, Warren (jacket design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket (price clip)
- Edition
- First Edition (so stated)
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Bookseller catalogs
- Samuel Johnson / James Boswell; Mystery / Crime Fiction;
- Size
- xi, 258pp
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