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Silas Marner
by George Eliot
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hugh Thomson . 8vo, vii + pp322 plus 2 pages advertisements, complete with 24 colour plates and 21 b/w plates by Hugh Thomson, the first edition to do so. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers green cloth binding with decorative gilt to front board and spine in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top of spine and the odd mark to boards. Inside bookplate to ffe paper which is creased along with the half title page. Frontispiece with tissue guard is loose but present. All other pages with full edge gilt in very good clean condition. Cracked at pp48/49 but holding nicely. a nice copy of this scarce edition.
Synopsis
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is a dramatic novel by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) which was first published in 1861.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000646
- Title
- Silas Marner
- Author
- George Eliot
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction / literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nikki Green Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glasgow, Glasgow
About Nikki Green Books
Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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