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Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Very Good. Eliot, George. The Writings of George Eliot (25 volumes). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Illustrated. 8vo. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on backstrips. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped corners and gently rubbed extremities. A couple of small light stains on tissue over frontispiece in vol one of ""Scenes of Clerical Life"" and faintly on title page; fore edge of vol two a little rough. Subtle soiling on top edge of endmatter of nine volumes and on top edge of front endsheet of five volumes. Gorgeous black and white plates.

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 25-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All volumes bound in gilt-stamped maroon leather and marbled paper over boards, marbled end papers, top edges gilt, illustrated with plates. Volumes I-II: Scenes of Clerical Life; III-IV: Adam Bede; V-VI: The Mill on the Floss; VII: Silas Marner, Brother Jacob; VIII-IX: Romola; X-XI: Felix Holt; XII-XIV: Middlemarch; XV-XVII: Daniel Deronda; XVIII: The Spanish Gypsy; XIX: The Poems; XX: Theophrastus Such; XXI-XXII: Essays; XXIII-XXV: Life Letters Journals. Volumes have nicks to the leather, otherwise in very good condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 40 lbs 0 oz. Category: Literature & Literary;… Read More

AMS Pr., 1970. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 25 books in total

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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vos. Illustrated. Publisher's green cloth, front boards stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt. Gilt top edge. McMurtry's bookplates in each volume. Minor rubbing to spines. Some hinges slightly overopened, but all volumes are tight and clean. Excellent condition. This is a complete 25-volume set of the works of George Eliot which belonged to author and book collector Larry McMurtry. Each volume bears his bookplate -- the horseshoe-shaped brand his father and grandfather used on the McMurtry cattle -- and was a part of his extensive collection at his home in Archer City, TX. The books also bear the attractive bookplate of Clara Louisa Houck as well as a signed presentation leaf to Ms. Houck from the publisher. A near fine set with fascinating provenance.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907. First Thus. Fine. Large Paper Edition limited to 750 of which this is 183. Finely bound in half crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Remaining edges deckled. In all a beautiful and pleasing illustrated set of George Eliot's works, which helped define the novel as a genre and brought women's experiences and inner lives into public dialogue. "No writer, not even Milton, is so dense and ample in his range of intellectual reference as George Eliot" (Myers). Defying gender expectations, Mary Ann Evans, writing under the pseudonym George Eliot, became famous for being a prolific writer who shaped the modern novel. Works like The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, and Middlemarch not only proved Eliot's intellectual dexterity by weaving together cultural references from religion, art, politics, and economics to comment on communities in flux; they also placed in context the rich interior lives of women, and the often agonizing… Read More