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The Works of George Eliot [Complete in Eight Volumes]
by ELIOT, George
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: John D. Morris & Company, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Arbury edition de luxe, limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is number 76. Complete eight volume set. Portrait and photographic frontispieces with tissue guards, illustrated from black and white photographs. Red, blue and gilt decorated title pages. Three quarter leather with marble papercovered boards and endpapers, decorative gilt-stamped spine and top edges gilt. Some pages are unopened, both volumes five and six have cracked gutters and are lacking the spines, edges of boards worn with some chipping of the spine ends, still a very good set. Volume I: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Scenes of Clerical Life, The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob. Volume II: Adam Bede. Volume III: The Mill on the Floss. Volume IV: Romola. Volume V: Felix Holt the Radical. Volume VI: Middlemarch. Volume VII: Daniel Deronda. Volume VIII: Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Essays and Leaves from a Note Book, Poetical Works. Scarce, *OCLC* locates only twelve sets.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 423698
- Title
- The Works of George Eliot [Complete in Eight Volumes]
- Author
- ELIOT, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John D. Morris & Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- Bindings, EnglishLiterature
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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