Book #54767

Boswell: for the Defence, 1769- 1774 - 1st Edition/1st Printing

William K. Wimsatt Jr.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959.

Price: $60.00

A Very Good edition a previous owner's inscription on the verso of the front flyleaf, staining to the boards around the spine especially, and other general wear in a like dust-jacket with edgewear and red inking to the flaps.

The life and times of Dr. Samuel Johnson, chronicler of London society, are brilliantly captured in the incomparable Boswell. This book is the definitive biography, based on the most complete and careful edition of Johnson's journals ever published.; 8vo; 396 pages.