Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
by ELIOT George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Blackwood, Edinburgh,, 1861. 8vo., First Edition, some light spotting (mainly marginal) on half a dozen leaves; original terracotta cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, expertly recased, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Complete with the following points: 4pp advertisements (unnumbered) facing front free endpaper (sometimes found between front endpapers); 16pp publisher's catalogue (undated) at end; binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants mounted on rear paste-down. With the blind stamp of WH Smith, Strand, on front advertisement leaves and front free endpaper, and 4pp Subscription Library leaflet mounted on first advertisement leaf. Carter binding variant B; see Jarndyce p.24; NCBEL III/902.
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
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38800
- Title
- Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
- Author
- ELIOT George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Blackwood, Edinburgh,
- Date Published
- 1861
- Keywords
- literature, eliot, george eliot, mary ann evans, silas marner
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