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NY: Godfrey A.S. Wieners, 1900. dark green c w/gilt titles,, decorations; top edge gilt; ownr's stamp; 557 pages; no date given (circa 1900?). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by B/W Frontis. 12 vo.

London: Collins, 1950. black leather c w/gilt titles; 632 clean, unmarked pages; no date given (circa 1950?); owner's name. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by B/W Frontis. 12 vo.

NY: Merrill and Baker, 1920. red c w/gilt titles,, decorations; top edge gilt; ownr's plate/stamp; 482 pages; no date given (circa 1920). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by b/w Engravings. 8 vo.

NY:: Modern Library,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1940s. Hardcover. Modern Library Giant number 51. A later printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (moderate shelf wear and aging) dust jacket. .

NY: Modern Library Giant, 1940. Modern Library frst (stated); dj w/moderate chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; (#G51 in series, lists to 271 on dj reverse); navyc w/gilt runner; tiitle son red; 1350 clean, unmarked pages; lite toining at edges. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 Vo.

New York: Merrilland Baker, 1890. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Cloth. Very Good. (ca. 1890) Illustrated Cabinet Edition. 2 volume set, complete. A Very Good Set. 12mo., illustrated with b&w plates, with captioned tissue guards. Green cloth with Eliot's portrait in gilt on the front board. t.e.g. Light shelf wear, mostly at the spine's ends. Previous owner's gift inscription. All the plates are age-toning. Foxing to some preliminary pages,and occasionally to other pages. A nice Victorian set of Eliot's work. From the publisher's series, The Works of George Eliot. These titles were available separately or as a 24 volume set.

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1901. Illustrated by Arthur Layard. Very Good condition. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate. Some internal tanning and foxing.

London: George Routledge [no date]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 768pp. Previous owner's name, inner hinges cracked, round stain on front cover. Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans. Publisher series: New Universal Library. (Fiction).

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. G : in Good condition without dust jackets. Rubbed at joints and edges. [1880]. Reprint. Green hardback cloth cover. 170mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). vi, 438pp; vi, 379pp. .

London : Oxford University Press , 1906. Cloth. Very Good. 6" by 4". none . A bright copy of George Eliot's first novel Adam Bede. This copy of George Eliot's Adam Bede is part of the Oxford Univeristy Press World Classics series, being reprinted in 1906. Adam Bede was the first novel by Mary Ann Evans and was first published in 1859. She described the novel as 'a country story full of the breath of cows and scent of hay.' George Eliot was the pen name for Mary Ann Evans who was one of the leading writers of the Victorian Era. With eight pages of publisher's adverts. In cloth binding. Externally, smart with a slightly faded spine and some marks to the boards. There is previous owners inscriptions to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good

Dana Estes & Company, 1898. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1898 limited (copy 123/500) Holly Lodge Edition, Dana Estes and Co. (Boston, Massachusetts), two 6 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches tall green cloth hardcover volumes, no dust jackets, printed paper labels to spines, top page edges gilt, fore and bottom page edges untrimmed, printed on laid paper, illustrated with a dozen full-page engravings with tissue guards, 375, 375 pp. (750 pages total.) Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with moderate age toning to spines. Many unopened signatures (preferred by some collectors), easily remedied with a paper knife or edge of a playing card. Otherwise, a very good to near fine set - clean, bright and unmarked - in a handsome printing of this classic. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~X~ [4.5P] The first novel by leading English Victorian author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), first… Read More

Dana Estes & Company, 1898. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1898. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Limited edition of 500 copies; this set is numbered 200. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages, which are rough cut. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with overall light shelf wear and darkened spine. Paper label at top of spine on each volume is rubbed, tanned, scuffed but lettering is visible. ; Novel first published in 1859. 8.5" (18.5 cm) tall; 750 pages.

London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Limited , c1914 . Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7.5". Gordon Browne. A lovely illustrated edition of Mary Ann Evans's debut novel first published in 1859 with colour plates by George Browne. Illustrated edition of Adam Bede by Mary Ann Evans in the original publisher's cloth binding. Published under the pseudonym George Eliot. Adam Bede was Evans's first novel. It is a prime example of nineteenth century English literature. With illustrations throughout the text and sixteen colour plates by Gordon Browne. Prior owner's book plates to the pastedowns and prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper from 1970. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, resulting in some slight wear to the cloth in these areas. Prior owner's book plates to the pastedowns and prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper from 1970. Internally, firmly… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, [c.1900].. 8vo, (x), 486 pp. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Denny in contemporary half calf, t.e.g., gilt decorated spine with Art Nouveau style tooling, outer edge of the covers with faint damp staining, top edge of the lower cover with some scuffing.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1859 Likely reprint of an early American Edition, in one volume, with the stated date of 1859 on title page (no copyright info. given). Hard cover in brown cloth blind stamped with circular intersecting forms to both boards, the titles in gold to the spine, along with "Scenes of Clerical Life." Glazed brown endpapers, iv, 5-452, plus 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. There were a number of early reprints and repackaging into sets which included this very successful debut novel, but Harper & Brothers was the first American publisher. First published in serial at Blackwoods Magazine. CONDITION: Good Plus, small losses to cloth at head and foot of spine, with old water stain to lower bottom fore edge most pages and some minor foxing to prelims. Some edge wear. Hinges are in order. and pages are generally bright.** Warwarkshire-born Victorian novelist, Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), using the pen name George Eliot, tells a delicately drawn tale of the seduction of a… Read More

Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Leather scuffed and with wear to spine. Boards rubbed. Ink inscriptions to fep. Marbled endpapers. 1859. Copyright Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 389pp; 334pp. Illustrated title page and bw illustrations within. .

Toronto: George N. Morang Company Limited, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. green cloth with blind tooled decorations, 544pp. Frontispiece. Name in marker on ff/ endpaper. Light bruising to spine ends, a small soil to rear board, o/w very good copy of this classic work of Victorian literature.