Sentence examples for little edition from inspiring English sources

When Johnson was approached by some London booksellers in 1777 to write what he thought of as "little Lives, and little Prefaces, to a little edition of the English Poets," he readily agreed.

Writing to Mr. Safford on June 13 , 1911 for a set of Robert Louis Stevenson's newly published letters, he concluded: If you do not send them to me, to round out my little edition of Stevenson, I will haunt you in the shape of a rattlesnake with the voice of a tiger, and I will steadily, for the next 18 years, put spiders in your tea!!

On 3 May 1777, while Johnson was trying to save Reverend William Dodd from execution, he wrote to Boswell that he was busy preparing a "little Lives" and "little Prefaces, to a little edition of the English Poets".

Penguin books, founded by Sir Allen Lane and V. K. Krishna Menon, published beautiful little editions of classic and modern titles, priced at sixpence.

This little hardbound edition of "Life-Spark Stories" isn't just weird — it is exceptionally rare.

The magazine has now brought out a beautiful little hardback edition (New York Review Books £10, pp64) of Naipaul's text.

Caleb is obsessed with Monopoly because my seven-year-old neighbor, Alma, is obsessed with Monopoly (the My Little Pony edition), and playing with her, like the good neighbor I am, gave me a looooooootttttt of time to contemplate the appeal/tediousness/metaphorical possibilities of the game.

Described by Ronson as "a full-on combustible groove workout with elastic bass and indomitable spirit" it channels classic 80s funk, rap and soul, from Prince to Cameo, to the Gap Band, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan and the Sugarhill Gang, plus a little New Edition.

Add in a little limited edition provenance with big face and crown and you've got a stew going.

It was a huge shift in the tectonic plates of our family dynamic, and the wife and I made up and basked in the glory of Tough Love: Little Kid Edition.

(The modest size of Greene's books makes them perfect for those classic little Penguin editions that fit on one's person).The man could tell a good story, smart and nervy.