Author: HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHER
Title: The Personal History of Samuel Johnson
Description: New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060118792. Stated first U.S. edition, 1971. Per the jacket flap, Christopher Hibbert's work provides the first minutely detailed life of Samuel Johnson since that of James Boswell. Much of the content includes details not known to Boswell, or which he didn't care to share. With a section of plates bearing black & white photos depicting scenes and people in Johnson's life. --- In full orange cloth-covered boards with Johnson facsimile signature to cover, & spine titling, both in gilt. Volume features image of Johnson to front panel, Hibbert to back. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy with prior owner's inked notations to front free endpaper, else bright, tightly-bound and otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket with slight chafing to extremities, but no other obvious damaes; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiv, 364 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0060118792 >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism