‎Eliot george‎

‎ELIOT George‎

‎The Letters of George Eliot. Selected with an Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY‎

‎John Lane The Bodley Head 1926. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper; original terracotta buckram backstrip with printed paper label red top uncut and largely unopened boards lightly age-marked at fore-edges else a very good bright crisp copy. With spare printed paper label and 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. John Lane The Bodley Head, hardcover‎

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‎ELIOT GEORGE:‎

‎THE WORKS OF GEORGE ELIOT. 24 VOLUMES IN THE CABINET EDITION.‎

‎EDINBURGH AND LONDON WILLIAM BLACKWOOD 1885. 24 VOLUMES COMPLETE INCLUDING THE 3 VOLUMES OF HER LIFE THROUGH HER LETTERS BY CROSS. SOME DATED 1885 OTHERS NOT DATED. VERY FINELY BOUND IN HALF TAN CALF OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS AND PAGE EDGES. ELABORATE GILT TOOLING AND RAISED BANDS TO THE SPINES WITH LEATHER GREEN AND GILT LABELS. AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN TIGHTLY BOUND AND HANDSOME SET. EDINBURGH AND LONDON, WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, 1885 hardcover‎

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‎Eliot George‎

‎THE WRITINGS.Together With The Life by J. W. Cross‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co. at the Riverside Press 1908. 25 volumes. The Warwickshire Edition. Wonderfully illustrated with engraved frontispieces and with dozens of fine photogravure plates. 8vo in the handsome original three-quarter brown morocco over red marbled boards the spines with raised bands creating four gilt framed compartments with large gilt centerpieces and corners and two gilt ruled compartments gilt lettered red marbled endpapers t.e.g. A nice and handsome set internally quite fresh and clean just a hint of age mellowing a few leaves opened carelessly a leaf here or there with tear the spines very handsome with bright gilt the shoulders rubbed just a bit the hinges all still firm and strong some very minor rubbing at the edges or tips. GEORGE ELIOT'S WORKS IN A FINELY ILLUSTRATED EDITION INCLUDING ALL OF HER CLASSIC NOVELS. It also includes a short biographical piece written by her husband John Cross.<br> Under her 'George Eliot' pen name Mary Ann Evans became on of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her seven novels most of which are set in provincial England are known for their realism and psychological insight. Her novel Middlemarch has been described by the novelists Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.<br> Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime she wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances. She also wanted to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. Houghton Mifflin and Co. at the Riverside Press hardcover‎

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‎Eliot George‎

‎The Writings Of George Eliot; Together With The Life By J. W. Cross. 25 Volumes‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1909. Hardcover. Near Fine. Warwickeshire edition. Illustrated with several black-and-white photogravures throughout text. Bound in half burgundy morocco and marbled paper boards with title and decorations in gilt on the spine five raised bands t.e.g. and marbled end papers. Minor wear at corners otherwise fine. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books‎

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‎PATT Ruth Marcus; Eliot G. Spack foreword‎

‎Uncommon Lives: Eighteen Extraordinary Jews from New Jersey Bernarda Shahn's Copy‎

‎New York: Vantage Press 1994. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original simulated cloth in white decorative dust jacket; xx2191pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear from handling else Near Fine. Includes chapters on Albert Einstein David T. Wilentz and Ben Shahn. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Vantage Press unknown books‎

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