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Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a VG, unmarked, hardcover first edition copy in decorative green cloth with gold lettering on the cover. 48 pages.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Eliot, George. How Lisa Loved the King. Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1869.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 48 pp. Brown cloth with blind on front and back boards, gilt lettering on front. Cover rubbed, spine ends and corners chipped. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Pages are square, clean and tight throughout. Size: 4 1/4" x 6 3/4"
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
ELIOT, George. How Lisa Loved the King. Fields, Osgood, and Company, Boston, 1869.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Duodecimo. Original green cloth over boards, gilt lettering at front cover, brown end papers, proofof purchase laid in from August 31, 1920. Very good, light wrinkling to cloth covers, spine ends and corners very lightly bumped, some spotting and fading to cloth, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Eliot, George. How Lisa Loved the King. Fields, Osgood, and Company., Boston., 1869.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 48 p. Dark green cloth over boards. 17 cm. Ornate cover titles in stamped gold. Thin brown end papers. Last verse: the author offers gratitude to the character in "Boccaccio" on which this verse is based. Frontispiece is a text promotion by publisher, offering this author's "The Spanish Gypsy, a Poem" Very good. No dust jacket. Light corner and spine end rubs. 19th century binding has slight surface bubbles. 1
Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Eliot, George. HOW LISA LOVED THE KING. Fields, Osgood, and Company, Boston, 1869.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16mo, green cloth with author-&-title gold stamped on front cover, ad for "The Spanish Gypsey" precedes title page, [1-7] 8-48 pages. SCARCE edition of this little known title by George Eliot. !/2-inch chip lost in spine else Fine. Baker & Ross B4.3: Eliot's composition of a rhymed poem based on Boccaccio's story of Lisa (Decameron, X, 7) was originally published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Mazazine, for which GE received 50 pounds. Early American Edition; First Publication in Book Form.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.37 + shipping
Description: ELIOT, George. How Lisa loved the King. Bos.: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869.First US Edition. Pp. 48. Small 8vo, maroon cloth, decorative gilt titlesto front. Tear to spine ends, uneven sunning to front board, previous owner's initials (New York, 1889), the odd faint smudge to a few leaves, else vg. 75.00
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
ELIOT, GEORGE. HOW LISA LOVED THE KING. FIELDS, OSGOOD & CO., Boston, 1869.
Price: US$85.37 + shipping
Description: Pagine: 48 . Formato: 24° . Rilegatura: Cartonato telato marrone con scritte oro . Stato: Buono . Caratteristiche: Racconto in versi di argomento medioevale della romanziera inglese. Firma di appartenenza. Copertina in tela sbiadita sul dorso. Firme di appartenenza. Bruniture. Copertina stanca .
Seller: Libreria Scripta Manent, ALBENGA, SV, Italy
Eliot, George. How Lisa Loved the King. Fields, Osgood, and Company, Boston, 1869.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Dark red cloth covered book with gilt letters. Some lighter discoloration along the edge of the binding, and top of spine worn significantly. Inside cover has attached bookplate from Norma Korn, and on early inside page in light pencil "Love, Norma from Lou, March 19, 1926". All pages and binding intact with no tears. Nice example.
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Company (Successors to Ticknor & Fields), 1869. A late, short poem by Eliot (pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880), considered one of the greatest Victorian novelists. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Reddish-brown cloth binding, ruled; with titling in gilt on the front cover. Clean text; 48 pages. Contemporary (1874) gift inscription on the third front endpaper. Some faint floodmarking to several early pages. Spine faded to tan; small chip to the head. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Eliot, George. How Lisa Loved the King. Fields, Osgood, and Company, Boston, 1869.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slight wear to tips of spine.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$111.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth binding by MARY ANN EVANS (George Eliot being her pen name), This is the First American Edition and was printed later in London under the title "Jubal" in 1874. Brown paste-downs and end-papers, 3 blank end-papers in front and back, 1 pp. ad for "The Spanish Gypsy, A Poem" by Eliot facing the title page, title page, Half Title, 48 pp. Few tiny fades spots to spine and rear cover else a VERY GOOD COPY.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Eliot, George. How Lisa Loved the King. Boston : Fields, Osgood, And Company, 1869.
Price: US$121.23 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth. Very slightly toned and dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 48 pages; Physical desc. : 48 p. ; 18 cm. Form/genre: Poetry. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition (*NCBEL* lists no separate English edition and states, "First published in Blackwood's Mag May 1869"). 16mo. 48pp. Brown cloth gilt. Owner's pencil signature, dated "June 27th 1869" on second flyleaf, small mark on front cover, else a fine copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Eliot, George. How Lisa Loved the King. Boston : Fields, Osgood, And Company, 1869.
Price: US$142.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth. Very slightly toned and dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 48 pages; Physical desc. : 48 p. ; 18 cm. Form/genre: Poetry. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ELIOT, George.. How Lisa Loved The King.. Boston: Fields, Osgood and Company, 1869., 1869.
Price: US$281.84 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., orig. green cloth, 48pp. Bookplate o/w a fine copy.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Eliot, George. How Lisa Loved the King. Fields, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1869.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, first printing. pp. [vi], 48; [vi]. 1 vols. 12mo. George Eliot First. George Eliot's rendition in verse of this tale from Boccaccio's Decameron was first printed in Blackwood's Magazine in May 1869 and soon afterwards published in book form in America by Fields & Osgood. It did not appear in book form in England until 1874 when it was included in The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems. Uncommon. Original brown cloth, front cover lettered in gilt, covers ruled in blind, brown endpapers. Faintest traces of soiling. Ownership inscription dated Mar. 16th, 1870. A near fine copy pp. [vi], 48; [vi]. 1 vols. 12mo First edition in book form, first printing.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.