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Samuel Johnson / John Wain.
LIBRA PR3533 .W33 1975
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wain, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Authors, English--18th century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Lexicographers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Lexicographers.
- Great Britain.
- Critics--Great Britain--Biography.
- Critics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Harvey, James P. (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 5 unnumbered pages- 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, [1975]
- Contents:
- Part I. In the Midlands
- Part II. Grub Street
- Part III. The Dictionary Years
- Part IV. 'True, Evident and Actual Wisdom' == Part V. Turtle and Burgundy
- Part VI. An Honourable Peace.
- Notes:
- "Copyright © 1974 by John Wain ... Published in 1975 by The Viking Press Inc. ..."
- Includes bibliographical references (page [380]) and index.
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, 1974.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has postcard laid in, addressed to James P. Harvey.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1975".
- Potok Collection copy is "Second Printing, April 1975".
- ISBN:
- 0670616710 :
- 9780670616718
- OCLC:
- 1056697
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