Dr Bowdler's Legacy

New York: Atheneum, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Foredge foxed, a small stain on the front board, a very good copy in very good dustwrapper with light edgewear. Very warmly Inscribed by the author to *New Yorker* editor Rachel MacKenzie. MacKenzie replaced Katherine White as the fiction editor at *The New Yorker* on the recommendation of… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts, USA: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1992. CC6 - A trade paperback enlarged illustrated book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some very slight overall rubbing of the covers. A book about the efforts of Dr. Thomas Bowdler and his sister to "improve" English literature… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. 8vo. (xvi) 268 pp. Blue boards lettered in silver on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. The Contents are: The Causes of Bowdlerism; Bowdlerism Before Bowdler; Dr Bowdler and His… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Atheneum, 1969. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Jacket has been mylared for protection. Jacket is age toned and faded at the spine. Top page edge is red.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good -. Mylared.

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1969. BN1 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ and book have library markings, DJ has wrinkling on the edges and corners, crease on the top of the back inside flap and soiling at the bottom, label on the front, moderate discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise good. Book has wrinkling on the spine edges,… Read more about this item

Atheneum, 1969-01-01. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. [The History of Censorship] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Macmillan and Co Ltd, London, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Preface by author, references to sources cited and index. Bright blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with blue, black and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1970. 1st UK edition, 8vo, 296pp, VG Copy in VG DJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1992. Illustrated by Marjory Wunsch. [xxi] 323p., b/w illus., stiff wrappers (A Nonpareil book).

Boston: Godine, 1992. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Fine. Cover by Marjory Wunsch. 9000 shelf. A Nonpareil Book. Unread. Trade paperback, pictorial gray/sky blue covers. No names, clean text. Index. Solid. Chapters: Shakespeare, Victorian literature, etc.

New York: Atheneum, 1969 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xv, 296 pp, preface, acknowledgments, 10 chapters, appendix, reference notes, index. Price clipped, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding, no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth..

London: MacMillan 1970. (Hardcover) 296pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Notes, appendices, bibliography, index. Lightly edgeworn and a previous owner's inscription inside. "A delightful book for anyone who loves literature, like the English language, hates to see them maltreated, and yet can be amused by man's absurdities. With tongue in… Read more about this item

1 . hardback. Very Good. A History of Expurgated Books in England and America. 1st ed. London (Macmillan) 1970. Name & address on endpaper. Light foxing along edges. Otherwise very good in worn dust wrapper.

New York: Atheneum. Hardcover. 1969. 1st Edition. 8vo 296pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. DJ spine faded Story of those who tried to purify books so they could be read safely by virgins and others with delicate sensitivities .

New York: Atheneum, 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark blue cloth, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Dust jacket has price-clipped front flap, 1/2" closed tear at head of front joint, and sunned spine panel, now in mylar. xix,297 pp. 1st ed..

Paperback. Good.

Macmillan, 1970. First Edition. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. Very good clean copy in a protected wrapper

David R. Godine, Publisher, October 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Macmillan, London, 1970,. Very Good. 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xviii,296pp, owner's bookplate on endpaper of John Julius Norwich, some pencil inscriptions on rear endpaper, text clean and sound, blue cloth, Very Good / no dustwrapper. .