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(JOHNSON, SAMUEL.)
Dr. Johnson in the Anteroom of Lord Chesterfield.
Glazed color transfer print on ceramic pot lid after detail from a painting by Edward
Matthew Ward (1816-79). Approximately 108 mm in diameter, with small chip along edge
on left; housed in silk-lined gilt-tooled navy morocco book box.
England, later 19th century
[150/250]
Lord Chesterfield allegedly infuriated Johnson by keeping him waiting to conduct a protracted
conversation with the actor Colley Cibber, after Johnson had addressed the prospectus for his
Dictionary to Chesterfield. See Boswell, Life, 1791, Volume 1, pages 138-39.
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JOHNSON, SAMUEL.
Works.
9 volumes. Frontispiece portrait. 8vo, contempo-
rary
1
/
4
red morocco, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, by Maltby, light shelfwear
and a few stray marks, 3 inch narrow horizontal abrasion to rear joint of volume 4, faded
inscription along upper edges of front cover of first volume; scattered foxing chiefly to pre-
liminaries and endleaves; bookplates on front pastedowns, ownership inscription on early
blanks with one additional inscription on half-title of volume 1. A good set, issued in the
Oxford English Classics series.
Oxford: Pickering, 1825
[400/600]
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JONES, JAMES.
From Here To Eternity.
8vo, publisher’s black cloth; dust
jacket, spine panel slightly faded and with light rubbing at extremities; no markings inter-
nally, binding unusually tight with no lean to textblock as is commonly found.
FIRST
EDITION
. A well-preserved copy of Jones’s first and best-known work.
New York: Scriber’s, 1951
[400/600]
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JOHNSON, JOSEPHINE.
Now
in November.
8vo, original russet cloth,
printed paper labels to front cover and
spine; top edges stained green; dust jacket,
spine sunned, light rubbing to folds, minor
edgewear, two small cellotape repairs on
verso, printed Book-of-the-Month Club
recommendation sticker affixed to front
panel.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1934
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
.
This copy
in first issue dust jacket, with presumed later
BOMC sticker. The author’s first novel and
the 1935 Pulitzer Prize winner.
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