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Lot 77
ELIOT, GEORGE A miscellany of first and interesting editions.
Eleven titles in fourteen volumes, includes first, first American, foreign editions as well as early biographies and criticism. Comprising: The Spanish Gypsy. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1868. First edition. Publisher's cloth. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, cloth toned, spotting within; Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. Second American and first American single volume edition. Publisher's green cloth, gilt. 9 x 5 1/2 inches. Fine overall with very light wear to extremities, pencil ownership signatures, early color printed bookseller's label of Henry O. Moses; Romola. A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First American and first illustrated edition. Publisher's brown cloth. Spine faded, title spotted, pencil markings; The Legend of Jubal. Toronto: Adam, Stevenson, 1874. First Canadian edition. Publisher's cloth. Fine; Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. First edition. Half green morocco. Spine faded to brown, light shelf wear, bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson; Early Essays. N.p.: Privately printed, 1919. Number 124 of 220 copies. Publisher's purple cloth gilt. A fine, unopened copy; Silas Marner. Barcelona: Editorial Catalana, [n.d.]. Publisher's printed paper wrapper. Translated by Joseph Carner. Wear to wrapper and spine, contents lightly toned, mostly unopened; CROSS, J. W. [ed.]. George Elliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and edited by her husband... Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. First edition. Three volumes. Attractively bound in half green calf over marbled boards, the spines tooled and gilt, all edges marbled. Light rubbing to edges, occasional spotting to contents, bookplates; MOTTRAM, WILLIAM. The True Story of George Eliot in Relation to "Adam Bede," Giving the Real Life History of the More Prominent Characters. London: Francis Griffiths, 1905. First edition. Publisher's green cloth. Light shelf wear, front joint tender; WOOLSON, ABBA GOOLD. George Eliot and Her Heroines. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886. First edition. Blue cloth, spine gilt titled. Ink ownership inscription; and ELIOT, GEORGE. George Eliot's New Century Library, circa 1906, twelve volumes housed in the original cloth box with printed label to inside lid. The lot 11 works in 14 volumes (including the box).
C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library
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