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Price: US$21.93 + shipping
Description: 3. ed., 8° (17x11), 382 p., contemporary calf, gilt title on spine, full edge gilt, marbeled endpapers, corner rubbed, endpapers rear side foxed, else tight and clean, well cared, Sprache: Englisch. * * * * --- due to EPR-Restrictions NO SHIPPING to Bulgaria, Danmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia and Spain --- * * * *
Seller: Antiquariat an der Stiftskirche, Bad Waldsee, Germany
Eliot, George. The Spanish Gypsy. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1868.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Third edition, hardcover in red leather with aeg, hand woven endbands, and marble patterned end pages, the front hinge is starting but solid, and the book has wear with flaking to the leather at the spine ends, cover edges and corners, as well as a short peel to the leather at the head of the front hinge, scraping to the spine bands, sunning to the spine and edges, and foxing to the first and last several pages. Overall, a solid, Good+ copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
George Eliot. The Spanish Gypsy. William Blackwood and Sons, 1868.
Price: US$29.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1868. William Blackwood and Sons. hardcover. ACCEPTABLE full leather binding. edgewear. ex library. ex library book plate. gilt titles on spine. spine cracked and repaired. 7x4
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Eliot, George. The Spanish Gypsy. William Blackwood & Sons., Edinburgh and London, 1868.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 358 pp. plus 8 pp ads. Blue cloth binding, blind-stamped, bright gilt design on cover, gilt lettering & design on spine, light wear to binding. . Front matter foxed. age-toning to margins, clean, binding firm. FIRST EDITION: Muir (8). Baker & Ross A9.1.a
Seller: The Book Store at Depot Square, Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A deluxe edition with new poems added, in a redesigned blue gilt embossed cloth binding with beautifully ornate spine gilt decorations and titles, gilt top foreedge, and tissue interleaving to portrait frontispiece etching. An unusually well preserved, bright, clean and unmarked copy.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: third william blackwood edirion on blue cloth with gilded borders somehwat faded spine cover
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Eliot, George. The Spanish Gypsy. William Blackwood & Sons - 1st Edition, 1868.
Price: US$42.27 + shipping
Description: A Hard backed copy with No Dust Jacket in Good condition. Publishers dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering to spine and a motif in gold relief to front boards. Boards slightly rubbed with some fraying to edges, edges bumped. Previous owner's details written to front end paper. Slight internal cracking. 358 Pages. This work was originally written in the winter of 1864-5; after a visit to Spain in 1867 it was rewritten and amplified. The reader conversant with Spanish poetry will see that in two of the Lyrics an attempt has been made to imitate the trochaic measure and assonance of the Spanish Ballad.
Seller: Rhos Point Books, Conwy, United Kingdom
Eliot, George. The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem. William Blackwood and Sons, 1868.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Description: VG+ hardback, no dustwrapper. Book has been professionally repaired old back on new with new endpapers. Bookplate of previous owner. 358 pp 8vo blue cloth with gilt decoration to front and gilt title to spine. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale.
Seller: High Barn Books, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Eliot, George. The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1868.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. 358pp, 8pp pub ads to rear. 1st edition 1868. Spine darkened, slight wear to extremities. Rugby School Library label on front pastedown. A rather pleasing copy. (ar14)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
ELIOT, George. The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem. William Blackwood & Sons, 1868.
Price: US$70.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~Light scattered minor foxing to text. Catalogue to rear. Original royal blue cloth gilt, spine slightly sunned. Slight wear to spine edges, slight fraying at head spine. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Two neat bookplates to inside front board. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: iv, 358pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
ELIOT, George. The Spanish gypsy: a poem. William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1868.
Price: US$70.90 + shipping
Description: Bound in blue cloth, with blind-stamped panel on both boards, gilt title & decoration on spine & gilt device on front board. Small blind-stamp on front free end paper; binding tight; some wear to cloth at board edges; stain (?bleach) on back board; spine darkened & worn, with dull gilt. pages of publisher's catalogue at rear discoloured Used - Good. Good hardback in blue cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Eliot, George. The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem. William Blackwood and Sons, 1868.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good copy in period 3/4 black polished calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands tooled in gilt, red morocco label, marbled edges and endpapers (binding rubbed, upper corners of cover and text bumped; some foxing to text). Bookplate with ink note; ink signature. Half-title present.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Eliot, George (Mary Anne Evans0:. The Spanish Gypsy A Poem. Edinburgh William Blackwood, 1868.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback 1st Edition, 8vo, vi prelims, 352pp text, vi notes. Very good in blue boards, gilt spine titles with decoration, stamped frame on upper and lower boards with decorative gilt roundel on front, grey end papers. Spine and little dark with rubbing at head and tail, front board has a crease and corners are a little bumped but interior is clean and tight. No D/W.
Seller: Pauline Harries Books, Liphook, Hampshire, United Kingdom
George Eliot. The Spanish Gypsy. a Poem. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1868.
Price: US$87.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1868 First Edition. Size Octavo, 8.5" x 5.5", 358 pages. Original binding of Blue cloth with central gilt motif to front cover, gilt titles and motif to the spine. Condition very good, the original binding has been professionally repaired and rebacked with the original spine laid down, new endpapers. The original boards and spine are grubby and rubbed, top page edge dusty. The internal condition is very clean, new endpapers, few spots to half-title and last couple of pages, a few finger marks and a few faint spots to margins of the occasional page, else the pages are clean throughout, no inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$92.22 + shipping
Description: Half title, 16pp cata. Orig. blue sand-grained cloth, bevelled boards, single-ruled border & spine lettered in gilt; spine sl. dulled. Armorial bookplate of George Stanley Darbishire & later inscription on leading f.e.p. v.g. Baker & Ross A9.2.a; 'second edition, first printing'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Eliot, George. The Spanish Gypsy. A Poem. William Blackwood, London, 1868.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in attractive early half morocco with spine lettering: "Eliot's Works" and the book's title. No half-title or ads. All edges gilt. Evidently from a uniformly bound set of first editions, without indication of sequence within that set. Minor spot or two of wear.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
ELIOT, George. The Spanish Gipsy: 'A Poem'.. London: William Blackwood:, First edition,, 1868.
Price: US$134.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, half-title, 358pp, contemp. red half calf, gilt decorated spine in compartments, minor wear to extremities, else a VG+ copy. Ex-Libris Julian Goldsmid of Somerhill, with family bookplate to upper pastedown and name plate on upper cover.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$134.49 + shipping
Description: Half title. Very small tear in outer margin of leading f.e.p. with sl. loss. Orig. blue sand-grained cloth by Burn & Co., front board with central monogram & spine lettered in gilt; spine sl. rubbed & dulled. Bookseller's ticket, James Maclehouse, Glasgow. A good-plus copy. Baker & Ross A9.1.b; 'first edition, second printing'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Eliot, George. THE SPANISH GYPSY A Poem. William Blackwood and Sons: Edinburgh London, 1868.
Price: US$201.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.5 x 5.5", half brown leather, gilt ruled with gilt lettering and spine dec, raised bands, marbled boards, edges and endpapers, 358pp. Leather has light scuffing/scraping, corners worn, upper page edges sunned, mild foxing to blank pages and reverse of the endpapers else fine. Attractively bound. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
ELIOT, George.. The Spanish Gypsy; a poem.. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. 1868, 1868.
Price: US$309.97 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title. Contemp. half dark green crushed morocco, green marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments; v. sl. rubbing to spine. a.e.g. v.g.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
George Eliot. The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem. William Blackwood and Sons, 1868.
Price: US$320.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition leather-bound hardback, 1868, with no jacket as published. In overall good to very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - marbelled boards quarter bound in tan calf, with gilt titles on red label, gilt decoration and five raised bands to spine, are rubbed to edges, slight wear at spine head and scratch to rear board at upper left corner. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; scattered light foxing to prelims, top page-edge tanned and light toning to page-edges but marbelled page-ends, marbelled end-papers and text clean and clear. Not an old library book. Photograph available.
Seller: Hall of Books, Shropshire, United Kingdom
ELIOT, George. The Spanish Gypsy. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1868.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (22cm). In original blue publisher's cloth, stamped in blind on both boards, with gilt 16-point star to front, titled in gilt on spine; grey coated endpapers; 8pp of publisher's ads at rear; [vi], [3] 4-358, [1]-8pp. Clean and generally bright, though cloth on spine is slightly darkened; edges gently rubbed; internally clean: Very Good. With a former owner's signature on front pastedown. BAKER & ROSS A9.1.a. Not in Sadleir.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
ELIOT, George.. The Spanish Gypsy; a poem.. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. 1868, 1868.
Price: US$352.24 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. Half title, 8pp cata. sl. browned. Orig. blue sand-grained cloth by Born & Co., front board with central device in gilt, spine lettered in gilt; spine sl. dulled & v. sl. rubbed at head & tail. Armorial bookplate of Conon Williams. Baker & Ross A9.1.a. Publisher's presentation inscription on half title, 'With Mr. Blackwood's compliments'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
George Eliot. The Spanish Gypsy. William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1868.
Price: US$377.85 + shipping
Description: A beautiful first edition copy of George Eliot's poem The Spanish Gypsy. Better known by her pen name George Eliot, Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (November 1819 December 1880) was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. In The Spanish Gypsy , Eliot made a brave foray into verse. This ambitious project exhausted her, and her partner George Henry Lewes took the manuscript away from her for fear it was making her ill. Finally published in 1868 to mixed reviews, the poem not only has intrinsic merit but looks forward to Eliot"s interests and concerns in her later work, especially Daniel Deronda. (Antonie Gerard van den Broek) In a half morocco binding with marbled boards. Externally, in lovely condition. Internally, firmly bound, bright and generally clean with only the odd spot and some occasional tidemarks to the margin. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
ELIOT, George.. The Spanish Gypsy; a poem.. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. 1868, 1868.
Price: US$422.69 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. Half title, 8pp cata. Handsomely bound in sl. later full dark blue crushed morocco by Birdsall of Northampton, spine gilt in compartments, double-ruled borders & gilt dentelles; following board v. sl. scratched. Orig. blue cloth bound in at end. t.e.g. A v.g. attractive copy. Baker & Ross A9.1.a.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2912.00 + shipping
Description: 220 x 148 mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/4"). 3 p.l., 358 pp. (bound without the 8 pp. of ads at rear). Very attractive late 19th century polished calf by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper, covers with triple gilt fillet border, rosettes at corners, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with vase of flowers at center surrounded by small tools, leafy sprays at corners, one red and one green morocco label, turn-ins with floral gilt roll, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Front pastedown with morocco bookplate of Robert Hoe. Baker & Ross A9.1.a. âSpine very lightly and evenly sunned, a little wear to top half-inch of front joint, other trivial imperfections, but still quite a fine copy--clean, fresh, and bright internally in a binding with few signs of use. Though known for her novels, George Eliot also wrote poetry that was much praised by her contemporaries. This blank verse play set during the Spanish Inquisition tells the story of a gypsy girl separated from her family and raised by Catholic Spanish nobility, but who then forsakes her privileged life and aristocratic fiancé to succeed her father as leader of the gypsies. In a contemporary review, fellow novelist Henry James described it as "marvellously crafted, beautiful and imaginative," while Eliot's biographer Gordon Haight proclaimed it "undoubtedly much the greatest poem of any wide scope and on a plan of any magnitude, which has ever proceeded from a woman." The beautiful bindings by the leading English workshop Riviere and the sparkling condition here are characteristic of books from the collection of our earlier owner Robert Hoe (1839-1911), founding member and first president of the Grolier Club. According to Beverly Chew, Hoe's library was "the finest [America] has ever contained." Hoe acquired illuminated manuscripts, early printing, French and English literature, and very fine bindings; when his library was sold in 1911-12, it fetched nearly $2 million, a record that held until the Streeter sale more than 50 years later. If a book has the Hoe bookplate, one can be assured that it was chosen with discrimination and will almost certainly be in as fine a state of preservation as could be hoped for.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.