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Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr. W. C. Minor, an American Civil War criminal whose life of genius and insanity make this true story both fascinating and unique. BOMC.

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9780060175962 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr.

Paperback:

9780062564610 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 11, 2016), cover price $10.00 | also contains The Professor And The Madman: A Tale Of Murder, Insanity, And The Making Of The Oxford English Dictionary

Prebinding:

9781439571200 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 5, 2008), cover price $22.95 | also contains The Professor And The Madman: A Tale Of Murder, Insanity, And The Making Of The Oxford English Dictionary

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Product Description: In Memories of a Small Town, Lisa Bondeson presents short stories about major events in the town's history. Some of these incidents affected the country such as escaped slaves, prisoners of war held during the Civil War and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918...read more

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9780460000017, titled "Life of Samuel Johnson" | J M Dent & Sons Ltd, June 1, 1976, cover price $17.95 | also contains Life of Samuel Johnson | About this edition: Boswell's classic biography of the eighteenth-century English lexicographer, critic, and conversationalist

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9781508525530 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 20, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In Memories of a Small Town, Lisa Bondeson presents short stories about major events in the town's history.

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Product Description: Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material when he came to write his biography...read more

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9780679417170, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Everymans Library, December 1, 1992, cover price $32.00
9780460000017 | J M Dent & Sons Ltd, June 1, 1976, cover price $17.95 | also contains Memories of a Small Town | About this edition: Boswell's classic biography of the eighteenth-century English lexicographer, critic, and conversationalist
9780394607023, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Random House Inc, June 1, 1952, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.

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9781495946844, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Createspace Independent Pub, February 16, 2014, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is often called the greatest biography of all-time and may well be.
9781486150236, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Lightning Source Inc, June 20, 2012, cover price $9.94
9781419184505, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2005, cover price $48.95
9781417969852, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Kessinger Pub Co, March 30, 2005, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780140431162, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, August 1, 1979), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The classic view of eighteenth-century life and thought in England through the conversations of the famous writer
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9780786113453, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 1998), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: [This is Part 3 of a 3-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition.
9780786113439, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 1998), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: [This is Part 1 of a 3-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition.
9780786113446, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 1998), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: [This is Part 2 of a 3-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition.
9780786105007, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $83.95
9780786105014, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $83.95 | About this edition: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work.

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9781439514191, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $25.00

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Product Description: The original manuscript of James Boswell's Life of Johnson—a composite of his basic draft and innumerable revisions—served as printer's copy, despite its maze-like appearance. This volume, third of a projected four, offers a genetic transcription, forming an edition designed to make this complex document accessible for the first time...read more

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9780300182927 | Yale Univ Pr, October 16, 2012, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The original manuscript of James Boswell's Life of Johnson—a composite of his basic draft and innumerable revisions—served as printer's copy, despite its maze-like appearance.

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Product Description: This volume is the third and penultimate in the Yale Boswell Editions' transcription of Boswell's heavily revised manuscript of his biography of Johnson. Designed as a research supplement to the Hill-Powell version of the 'Life' and employing the complex but accessible system devised for the series by the late Marshall Waingrow, the edition traces Boswell's processes of composition from first draft to final publication...read more

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9780748606047 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, July 27, 2012, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This volume is the third and penultimate in the Yale Boswell Editions' transcription of Boswell's heavily revised manuscript of his biography of Johnson.

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Product Description: A modern biography of Samuel Johnson that will serve as the definitive work on the legendary British man of lettersIn this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, David Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work...read more

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9780805086515 | 1 edition (Henry Holt & Co, October 27, 2009), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A modern biography of Samuel Johnson that will serve as the definitive work on the legendary British man of lettersIn this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, David Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.

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Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr. W.C. Minor, an American Civil War criminal who was considered both a genius and a lunatic.

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9780061030222 | Int edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1999), cover price $7.99

Miscellaneous:

9780061807602 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99

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9780694522439 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, September 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr.
9780694520664 | Harperaudio, September 1, 1998, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr.

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9780606306973, titled "Professor And The Madman" | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $22.35

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Three senior editors at the Oxford English Dictionary examine Tolkien's career as a lexicographer who spent two years on the staff of the OED, analyze its influence on his creative use of language in his fictional works, and probe the origins and meaning of such Tolkienesque words as 'hobbit,' 'Ent,' and 'mithril.'

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9780198610694 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2006, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: Three senior editors at the Oxford English Dictionary examine Tolkien's career as a lexicographer who spent two years on the staff of the OED, analyze its influence on his creative use of language in his fictional works, and probe the origins and meaning of such Tolkienesque words as 'hobbit,' 'Ent,' and 'mithril.

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9780199568369 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 17, 2009, cover price $17.95
9780199210763 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 28, 2007, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out as a Grub Street journalist, he made his mark on history as a poet, author, moralist, literary critic, political commentator, and lexiconographer...read more

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9781582435244 | Counterpoint, September 21, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson.

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Product Description: This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life...read more

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9780820329956 | Univ of Georgia Pr, June 1, 2009, cover price $66.95 | About this edition: This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.

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9780820344270, titled "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D" | Univ of Georgia Pr, January 1, 2013, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.

Product Description: From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary...read more

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9780198607021 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 28, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work.

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9780195175004 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 14, 2004), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work.

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9780060592387 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 2003), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work.

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9780060592356 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work.

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9781435291102 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $28.99 | About this edition: From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.

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A profile of the creator of the legendary thesaurus named for him describes his childhood fascination with list-making, a practice that was shaped by family tragedies, his run-in with Napoleon's authorities, and a productive relationship with famed physician Thomas Beddoes. 50,000 first printing.

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9780399154621 | Putnam Pub Group, March 13, 2008, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A profile of the creator of the legendary thesaurus named for him describes his childhood fascination with list-making, a practice that was shaped by family tragedies, his run-in with Napoleon's authorities, and a productive relationship with famed physician Thomas Beddoes.

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9780425225899 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, March 3, 2009), cover price $16.00

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9781400106530 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 31, 2008), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado-was a complicated man.
9781400156535 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 31, 2008), cover price $24.99

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Product Description: Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado-was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed an allure that endeared him to his mentors and colleagues-not to mention a host of female admirers...read more

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9781400136537 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 31, 2008), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado-was a complicated man.

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Product Description: This poignant biography of H.W. Fowler is the first full account of his life ever published. Based on meticulous research into previously unpublished letters and the Oxford University Press archives, this book brings to life a complex yet fascinating man...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780198605256 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This poignant biography of H.

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Product Description: This is the first book-length presentation of the life and works of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips (1820-1889), the eminent Shakespearean scholar and author, whom critics of widely diverse orientation recognize as the greatest contributor of his age to our knowledge of Shakespeare's life and times...read more

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9780856831935 | Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd, June 1, 2001, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: This is the first book-length presentation of the life and works of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips (1820-1889), the eminent Shakespearean scholar and author, whom critics of widely diverse orientation recognize as the greatest contributor of his age to our knowledge of Shakespeare's life and times.

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Product Description: He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780674787773 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire.

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9780674001985 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 15, 2000, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire.

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Product Description: This is the second volume of the annotated transcription of James Boswell's manuscript of The Life of Johnson, with its numerous complex revisions and wide array of supplementary materials. The transcription covers the period from 1766, when Boswell returned to Scotland after his eventful Grand Tour and then renewed his friendship with Johnson in London, to 1776, when the two traveled together to Oxford and the English Midlands, visiting scenes of Johnson's youth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780300079692 | Yale Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This is the second volume of the annotated transcription of James Boswell's manuscript of The Life of Johnson, with its numerous complex revisions and wide array of supplementary materials.

Paperback:

9780192875938 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95

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A biographical study of the eighteenth-century lexicographer and critic combines narrative with psychological insights (view table of contents)

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9781887178761 | Counterpoint, June 1, 1998, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A biographical study of the eighteenth-century lexicographer and critic combines narrative with psychological insights
9780156792592 | 1 edition (Harcourt, October 1, 1979), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, Bate's biographical study of the eighteenth-century lexicographer and critic combines narrative with psychological insights

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Product Description: The original manuscript of James Boswell`s Life of Johnson-a composite of his basic draft and innumerable revisions-served as printer`s copy despite its maze-like appearance. This book is the first of four volumes to be devoted to that original manuscript, an edition that will make this complex document accessible for the first time...read more

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9780300060607 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The original manuscript of James Boswell`s Life of Johnson-a composite of his basic draft and innumerable revisions-served as printer`s copy despite its maze-like appearance.

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