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Silas Marner; Scenes from Clerical Life, and Other Stories
by Eliot, George
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
A. L. Burt. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. A. L. Burt. No date in book. Circa 1900. NOT ex-library. Hardcover is half-bound in tan leather with blue-green, cream, and gold marbled paper-covered boards. Spine has five raised bands; four spine panels have gilt floral device. The other two panels have dark brown leather labels with gilt lettering: Upper label: Geo. Eliot's Works, lower label: Silas Marner Etc. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tissued frontispiece; three additional black and white plates. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Leather is in good condition, with some crackle and rubbing to edges and corners; partial loss of leather surface at the top eighth inch of the spine. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Two pages have diagonal creases at bottom corner. Pages clean and unmarked. Stories independently paginated (651 pages total). Title page has series name "Burt's Library of the World's Best Books" in a small illustrated medallion. No dust jacket. Contents: Silas Marner; Scenes from Clerical Life; The Lifted Veil; Brother Jacob. See our listings for other George Eliot volumes with matching bindings. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10477
- Title
- Silas Marner; Scenes from Clerical Life, and Other Stories
- Author
- Eliot, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- A. L. Burt
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Spine
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- Good+
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- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cracked
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- Device
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Title Page
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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