Samuel Johnson: A Biography
by KRUTCH, Joseph Wood
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing, copyright page. The noted Columbia University professor's biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson. With illustrations depicting Johnson and some of the places he frequented. With expensive reference material at rear of volume. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling on black blocks. Lacks the dust jacket. --- With sunning to cloth and some yellowing to interior leaves of this wartime edition; else a sound, clean copy.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiv, 599 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79137
- Title
- Samuel Johnson: A Biography
- Author
- KRUTCH, Joseph Wood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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