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Eliot, George. SILAS MARNER. William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.

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Eliot, George. Silas Marner. William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.

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Condition: Very Good

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George Eliot:. Silas Marner : the Weaver of Raveloe.. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and sons, 1861., 1861.

Price: US$129.95 + shipping

Description: First or early edition (hardback). 12mo (18cm by 12cm), iii, 364pp. 19th-century rebind of half green morocco, marbled boards, gilt titling to the spine, marbled endpapers and page edges. The binding is a little rubbed; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Dated 1861 on the title page, with no mention of later impressions, but rebound without any adverts.

Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom

Eliot, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1861.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: vi, 364, 16 (ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Parrish, p. 15; Sadleir 819; Wolff 2063 Bound in three quarters brown calf, gilt spine. Front joint cracked vi, 364, 16 (ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Eliot, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1861.

Price: US$331.38 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 349pp; 1861, same year as the first edition; previous owner's name to fep.; small yellow sticker to the inside; some toning to eps. and half title; brown boards with wear to spine-ends and corners, gilt title to spine; blind-stamping to boards. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom

ELIOT, George.. Silas Marner: the Weaver of Raveloe.. William Blackwood & Sons. 1861, 1861.

Price: US$500.33 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title, 16pp cata., ad. leaf on following pastedown. Uncut in orig. brown wavy-grained cloth, borders blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; Mudie's Library label partially removed from front board, spine v. sl. worn at head & tail. Baker & Ross, A6.1.a; Sadleir 819; Wolff 2063.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

Eliot, George. SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood and Sons: Edinburgh and London, 1861.

Price: US$569.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 7.25 x 4.5", later 3/4 leather; marbled edges, 364pp, lacks half title; ads, extremities rubbed but still an attractive volume. FIRST EDITION. (Mary Ann Evans).

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1861.

Price: US$643.28 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The first edition of George Eliot's third novel, Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. First edition in Carter's Variant B binding. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. Written by Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name of George Eliot, an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Bound without half-title or advertisements to the rear. In the original cinnamon cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Joints starting but firm. With fading to the spine and an ink mark to the front board. Internally, generally firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained but firm. Pages are bright and clean with light scattered spotting. Ink inscription to front endpaper and title page. Bookseller's embossed stamp to front endpaper. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

ELIOT, George. SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1861.

Price: US$812.50 + shipping

Description: Publisher's cinnamon cloth: Carter's A binding with 16-page Blackwood catalog and 4-page Carlyle catalog bound at rear. Eliot's third and many think best novel. Rear hinge with paper split but binding firm, early owner name at top of half-title page; tear along rear joint and small tears to spine tips, cloth a bit darkened. Very Good

Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.

ELIOT George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. , 1861.

Price: US$974.66 + shipping

Description: First edition, Carter's binding A. 8vo. 364, 16 [publisher catalogue] pp. Original full blind stamped red-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. London, William Blackwood and Sons. George Eliot's third novel, a pastoral tale, which addresses social and class issues, as well as the effect of industrial growth on the countryside. A very good copy, slightly soiled, some foxing. Bookplate of John Gould on front pastedown, ownership signature on title. Sticker on back pastedown 'bound by Burn Kirby's'. John Gould was an ornithologist married to artist and illustrator Elizabeth Gould.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

Eliot, George [Mary Ann Evans].. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1861.

Price: US$999.98 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Original cinnamon cloth. First Edition. [6], 364 pp. plus 16 pp. publisher’s ads plus 4 unnumbered ads for the Third Edition of the Autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlisle. Eliot is one of the greatest novelists in the English language, and Silas Marner is her third. Adhesion on front pastedown from removed bookplate, margin water traces on several rear pages, Good.

Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.

Eliot, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1861.

Price: US$1137.21 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: The first edition, in original decorative stamped full russet cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Yellow endpapers. Mild handling to covers. Top edge soiled and others lightly toned; mild scattered foxing to front and rear leaves. Binding cracked (but not broken) at title-page. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a really sound and handsome copy. 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Half-title present. vi,364+16[cat.]pp. In older matching leather-backed slip-case and chemise, showing some scuffing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans). Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1861.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Description: Carter's binding A. 364pp + 16, [4]pp of publisher's advertisements. Terracotta cloth decorated in blind on the sides, spine lettered and decorated in gold, pale brown endpapers. All edges uncut. With the binder's ticket of Burn of London, 37 & 38 Kirby Street, on the rear pastedown endpaper. Light wear to extremities, a couple of tiny closed tears along the spine, binding solid but rear hinge starting, spine panel slightly toned. A very good- copy. ; Octavo.

Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.

ELIOT, George.. Silas Marner. The Weaver of Raveloe.. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, 1861.

Price: US$1624.43 + shipping

Description: First edition. In the composition of Silas Marner, Eliot "experienced much less depression and fewer delays than was usual for her. With its happy ending, its legendary plot of the miser who turns into a philanthropist and finds happiness in adopting a child, it is different from her other novels, while sharing their humour and breadth of understanding" (ODNB). Published on 2 April 1861, Silas Marner proved a success, resulting in 8,000 copies in five separate printings in 1861. "Its popular success was a pleasant surprise for Blackwood, who was initially worried about publishing another short fiction that might not be taken by libraries. The single volume was deliberately made 'thicker and handsomer' than a volume of an ordinary three-volume novel, and he calculated that the price of twelve shillings would attract individual buyers. The response from both libraries and the public exceeded expectations" (Shattock, pp. 27-8). This copy is in Carter's "A" binding, with the more elaborate gilt-work on the spine than the "B" variant - the two may have been issued concurrently, although if they do represent different issues, he theorizes the "A" binding would have preceded. It also has the two additional pages of advertisements for Alexander Carlyle at rear, absent in some copies, without known priority. This copy is from the library of the Anglican clergymen Rev. Herbert Maynard Smith (1869-1949), author of theological works and detective novels, and his brother Rev. J. Outram Smith (1871-1954), with their ownership stamps to the front free endpapers. Their substantial collection focused on theology, history, philosophy and literature works. Carter, Binding Variants, pp. 110-112; Parrish, pp. 15-16; Sadleir 819; Wolff 2063. Joanne Shattock, "Publishing and Publication", George Eliot in Context, ed. Margaret Harris, 2013. Octavo. Original brown ripple-grain cloth (Carter binding "A"), lettering and ornaments in gilt on spine, light yellow endpapers. With 20 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Bookseller's ticket of Brackett, Tunbridge Wells, to front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription of Anne Henley Golding (d. 1900) to front free endpaper. Extremities lightly rubbed, a little wear to spine ends and corners, spine ends repaired, minor marks on sides, binding professionally repaired where formally cracked at gutter, intermittent faint foxing and marks to contents, otherwise generally clean. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

ELIOT, GEORGE. Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1861.

Price: US$1705.81 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo. Terra Cotta embossed cloth with gilt titles on spine. 364 pages plus 16 pages of advertisements. Includes ad for "Autobiography of Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle" listing the second edition for sale. Very early state of the 1st. A beautiful copy with some edgewear and minor foxing to prelims.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Eliot, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.

Price: US$1800.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, rust cloth, decorated in blind, gilt-lettered spine; slight trace of a bookplate removed from the front pastedown. First edition with Blackwood's 16-page catalogue at the end; without the two leaves of Alexander Carlyle ads at the rear, which appear in only some copies; Carter's "binding A," with the more elaborate gilt design on the spine. Sadleir 819; Wolff 2063. A gorgeous copy enclosed in a custom-built slipcase.

Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.

ELIOT George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY. William Blackwood, Edinburgh,, 1861.

Price: US$2417.16 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Eliot, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1861.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this classic work in Carter's binding "A", which is the preferred and much more elaborate, with Blackwood and Carlyle ads at the rear (which only appear in some copies). Octavo, original orange cloth. In near fine condition. "The finest of [Eliot's] studies of humble rural life" (Stanford Companion, 211). "Overwhelming are the glorious qualities which make [Eliot] a supreme novelist in an age of great novelists: her penetrating sympathy, her deep knowledge of humanity, her descriptive power, her lambent humor, the reflection of her extraordinary mind" (Kunitz and Haycraft).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

ELIOT, George. Silas Marner. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, 1861.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition, In the Original Cloth Binding ELIOT, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 13/16 inches; 197 x 122 mm.). [6], 364 pp. plus 16 pp. publisher's advertisements, [4,unnumbered ads for the third edition of "Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle"] pp. Original cinnamon diagonal ripple-grain cloth (Carter A, no priority established) with covers decoratively paneled in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge rough-trimmed, fore and bottom edges trimmed. Original cream-colored endpapers. Booksellers ticket "Gilbert Brothers, Gracechurch St, London" on front paste-down. Neat ink presentation dated 1861 on front free-endpaper. Minimal rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Rear inner hinge just starting, some light foxing. An excellent copy. Chemised in a quarter red morocco slip-case. The advertisements are in placing "b" (eight plus two leaves, at rear, with the advertisements for the third edition of Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle following the publisher's catalogue), and the "New Works" list is in the earlier form, with pp. [1] and [2] listing three and four titles respectively (p. [1]: John Petherick's Egypt, Soudan, and Central Africa, Sir Archibald Alison's Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart ("In the press"), and the Count de Montalbert's The Monks of the West; p. [2]: George Finlay's History of the Greek Revolution ("In the press"), Rev. J. Cave-Browne's The Punjab and Delhi in 1857, David Page's The Past and Present Life of the Globe ("In the press"), and Henry Stephens' The Book of Farm Buildings ("In the press"). Baker & Ross A6.1.a. Carter, Binding Variants, pp. 111-112. Parrish, p. 15. Sadleir 819. Wolff 2063. Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.

Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.

Eliot, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1861.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, binding state A. Pp. [vi], 364, 16 (ads), [4, ads]. 1 vols. 8vo. Parrish, p. 15; Sadleir 819; Wolff 2063 Original orange cloth, Burns binder's ticket. Embossed stamp of W.H. Smith, The Strand on front flyleaf, owner signature of Robert Lees, May 8th /61. Oliver Brett bookplate, his pencil mark OEB Sept 1904 on last page of text. Near fine in cloth folding box Pp. [vi], 364, 16 (ads), [4, ads]. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

ELIOT, George. Silas Marner The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1861.

Price: US$3250.00 + shipping

Description: Full Description: ELIOT, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition. Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 inches; 200 x 125 mm). [4, unnumbered ads for "The Autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlyle"], [6], 364, [16 publisher's ads] pp. With half-title. The 4 paged advertisement of Dr Alexander Carlyle's autobiography is bound between the front endpapers. This copy is almost completely unopened. Publisher's cinnamon cloth, bound by Edmonds & Remnants, with binder's ticket to rear pastedown. Boards paneled and bordered in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Light yellow endpapers. The very slightest of spine extremity wear. Some minor bumps to top and bottom of board edges. A near invisible split at top of outer joint. Still an about fine copy, housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. "Silas Marner, always a favourite with readers, was until recently considered too obvious and too lightweight to merit serious discussion. In 1949, F.R. Leavis echoed the views of many when he described it as "that charming minor masterpiece", an evident "moral fable". Only in one respect was the work seen as unusual: it appeared to have no direct bearing on its author's life. Ever since the mid-1950s, however, it has gradually gathered advocates who have shown that it is not only as rich in ideas, but also as firmly rooted in George Eliot's personal concerns as any of her other works and somewhat suprisingly, these two issues have been increasingly seen as one. It was not until 1985, however, when Sandra Gilbert argued that Eppie is the central character and that the novel's principal theme is the riddle of daughterhood, that anyone specifically explored the implications for a woman of the relationship between Eppie and Silas. Through Silas, she affirms, George Eliot was able to examine "the dispossesion that she herself had experienced as part of the empty pack of daughterhood" (Dawson, Light Enough to Trusten By: Structure and Experience in Silas Marner, 1993). Carter p. 112. Parrish, p. 15. Sadleir 819. Wolff 2063. HBS 68993. $3,250.

Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Eliot, George [Marian Evans]. SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe. , 1861.

Price: US$3750.00 + shipping

Description: [the "A" binding, fine] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 16 pp undated ads + 4 pp (Carlyle) ads bearing January 1861 reviews. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition of George Eliot's only single-volume novel ("a short and simple one, but flawlessly fashioned"). SILAS MARNER is a novel of remarkable quality. Idyllic, certainly, but nowhere does it strain belief or offer coincidence as a resolution. There is not a superfluous line in the narrative and the book has charm, a quality rarely found in the work of the great Victorian novelists [CGEL]. This was George Eliot's third novel, following ADAM BEDE and THE MILL ON THE FLOSS (published in the prior two years, also by Blackwood); after SILAS MARNER she would temporarily abandon her successful environment of rural England, and fail miserably with ROMOLA, sited in 1490s Italy. This copy is in Carter's "binding A," with the more elaborate giltwork on the spine (a variation also present on Eliot's two prior novels); Carter theorizes that if either binding preceded the other, it would have to be "A", but acknowledges that the two may have been concurrent. (In our experience "A" is certainly the scarcer, in any event.) This copy has the two leaves of Alexander Carlyle ads at the rear; these extra leaves appear only in some copies, and in some cases they are bound in at the front instead. This is a remarkably fine copy (a tiny hole in the rear endpaper gutter, but otherwise without wear or soil). The leaves have very little foxing. Baker & Ross A6.1.a; Sadleir 819 (his was a "B" binding); Wolff 2063 (binding not specified); Carter BV pp 110-112. Housed in a handsome morocco-backed clamshell case with marbled covers. Provenance: the front paste-down bears the 1960 bookplate of the famed bibliophile and bibliographer (and biographer of R.M. Ballantyne), Eric S. Quayle (1921-2001).

Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.

Eliot, George. SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1861.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition of Eliot's third novel, a fable in realist dress, praised by some as the greatest of her works. The idea for Eliot's only one-volume novel came "quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale" suggested by her childhood memory of seeing a weaver (as recounted in a letter to her publisher). By degrees she "became inclined to a more realistic treatment," though a kernel of fantasy remains under the careful working-out of ethical and material realities. Received by one contemporary critic as "boorish twaddle," SILAS MARNER has also been hailed as "the most flawless of George Eliot's works" (Joan Bennett). A lovely copy of one of very few 19th-century novels to inspire both a Steve Martin comedy and an episode of PBS's Wishbone (A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE and "Golden Retrieved," respectively). 7.5'' x 5''. Original embossed russet cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Binding A (Carter). Most leaves unopened. Publisher's ad for Alexander Carlyle at front; Blackwood catalogue at rear. [4], [6], 364, 16 pages.; Binder ticker to rear paste-down. Only mild edgewear and bumping to extremities.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.