Search Results: the life and letters of john

SteinerBooks, Incorporated, 1993. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Lindisfarne Books, 1993-03-01. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

SteinerBooks, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

SteinerBooks, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Houghton Mifflin Company. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. ONLY VOLUME 2

BiblioBazaar. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good. 1936. Hardback. 819 pages .

London: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catharine-Street in the Strand, MDCCLII. 1752. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 202 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], 339 340 blank, 341 - 349 index, 350 blank], K4 and K7 leaves are cancels (as usual), engraved portrait of Swift as frontispiece, contemporary lightly speckled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, dark red morocco label; a very good copy. This volume is an extremely rare relic from the library of Dr Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1766), whom John Adams, the Founding Father, revered as "a transcendental genius". This Mayhew-owned copy of the Earl of Orrery's book on Swift is hitherto unknown, and is of compelling interest -- since John Adams himself compared Mayhew's writing to Swift's writing, with Adams indeed finding Mayhew to be superior to Swift in quality if similar in kind. Jonathan Mayhew was also a close friend of Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), the important early benefactor of Harvard. Hollis was also of course a notable benefactor of… Read More

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Illustrated & 1st. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

University Press of the Pacific, 2003-04-25. Paperback. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-03-19. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Nabu Press, 2010-06-19. Paperback. Good.

Oxford University Press, 1951. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 282 pages. Small book. Ex-university library book, some wear and discoloring; broken front hinge but a decent reading copy still. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Criticism & Essays; Inventory No: 210276. .

University of North Carolina Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: William Heinemann, 1935. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 819 pages, b&w illustrations, folding family chart in front. Covers worn, light soil. Previous owner's signature on prelim page. Record # 800461

C. Scribner's sons, January 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable.

Clean & tight & unmarked. Mild shelf wear with slight bumping of cover corners.

AS NEW copy in VG+ slipcase rubbed at extremities. 143 pp.

The Folio Society 1985, 1111. Book. As New. Hardcover. Excellent condition, nice cardboard slip cover with beautiful reproduction of a painting wrapping around it, slip cover has the slightest edge wear... thanks!.