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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Interior unmarked, clean. Covers with minor edge-wear. Dust jacket is price-intact ($7.95) and has a creases along top edge of front flap, small tear and cosmetic scratches on rear dj. Laid in is a small sheet of corrections. 1971. Hardcover. 1h. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition. Slightly bowed else about near fine in a very good dust jacket with some curling on the edges and short tears.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First reprint of the first edition - published as a PBO in 1982. This edition was originally published in the Penguin English Poets series in 1971. ***Very good in glossy card covers. The covers are bright and clean, with no fading - just slight creasing and rubbing at the extremities - mainly at the bottom of the front cover. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. No reading creases. Internally also very good, with a neat ownership inscription at the top of the first printed page. Pages clean with no internal foxing. No creases or tears. Spine tight. No dustwrapper (as issued). ***260 pages plus three pages of publisher's adverts at the back of the book. 197mm x 130mm. ***'This edition of Johnson's poems includes all his English poems, and a selection from his Latin poems and from "Irene", his single attempt at verse drama. Also included is the first draft of "The Vanity of Human Wishes", and a selection of contributions to poems by other authors. The editor describes the aim of the edition as "to provide a truly critical text in which the characteristics of Johnson's own practices in spelling, punctuation and capitalization are preserved, whilst at the same time his final authoritative revisions --- have been admitted. A feature of Dr Fleeman's extensive annotation is the use throughout of Johnson's own "Dictionary of the English Language" as a guide to the poet's precise meaning.' (Quote taken from the back cover) ***A second printing of the first edition of the "Penguin English Poets" edition of the Complete English Poems" of Samuel Johnson, in nice original condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Articles include: Paper as Bibliographical Evidence with four collotype plates; Some Proofs of Johnson's Prefaces to the Poets; The Manuscript of Jane Austen's Volume the First; Bibliographical Notes: Leigh Hunt's The Descent of Liberty 1815; Aldus's Paraenesis to his Pupil, Leonello Pio; Longevity of a Type Face; the Leigh Browne Collection at the Keats Museum; On the Imposition of the First Edition of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; Some Lost English Translations of Erasmus; Reviews, Recent Books and Periodicals. Clean grey covers, sound binding, clean pages Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12210110042. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Zustand: New. A scholarly edition of the poems of Samuel Johnson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Leather Bound. Zustand: Very Good. Franklin Library Limited Edition. 1493pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Full dark blue leather with raised bands. Gilt stamped title on spine. Elaborate gilt stamped designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon page-marker. The edges of the endpapers are faded. A nice, clean, and sharp set. May require extra postage due to number of volumes. Published exclusively for subscribers to the 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. Illustrated with Portraits of Leading Figures of Dr. Johnson's Day.…