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Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover clean bumped around edges, taped on inner gutter. Text rough edges, tanning. "There is in man a higher than love of happiness: he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness" The Ethics. --- We are a Benedictine Monastery / Seminary library; thanks for your support.
Seller: Mount Angel Abbey Library, St. Benedict, OR, U.S.A.
Brown, John Crombie. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1879.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dustwrapper, old damp-marking to brown boards but gilt titles on spine and black titles and borders on boards are still clear. Some wear to spine ends and corners of the bevelled edges of boards, but otherwise a good, internally clean and tight, copy of this small hard-cover book. Originally written a few years earlier but only published after the author's death, a long essay on the ethical aspects of George Eliot's seven novels and of her poem "The Spanish Gypsy". 114pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Jim's Old Books, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
George Eliot. The Spanish Gypsy, The Works of George Eliot. William Blackwood and Sons, 1879.
Price: US$20.63 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1879. Cabinet Edition. 375 pages. No dust jacket. Green decorative cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut and uncut pages. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges. Stamp to fort free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has mild staining, tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
John Crombie Brown. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1879.
Price: US$21.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Novel by Novel examination of the morality and ethics revealed in Eliot's works. With beveled edges. Rubbing to edges. Occasional pencil underling within. With newspaper clippings pasted down to rear end-paper. Occasional spotting within. Contents tight. Good.
Seller: AJ Scruffles, Leigh On Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Price: US$28.23 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: original decorated cloth, spine bumped, ownership signature half-title, fine; 303 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SECOND EDITION. LONDON : 1879. [ First published in the same year; Eliot's last published writing and her most experimental, taking the form of a series of literary essays by an imaginary minor scholar whose eccentric character is revealed through his work]. Hardback. Original light-brown cloth; gilt lettered spine. Black decorative borders to spine and cover. Original dark-brown end-papers. Untrimmed edges as issued. Bright, tight and clean. A couple of minor marks to rear cover. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD. (vi), 357 pages. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: William Blackwood & Sons. The Cabinet Edition, 1878. Small 8vo. 17cm x 12cm. Handsomely bound in half green morocco gilt, raised bands, gilt decorations to spines, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Slight shelf-wear. Bookplate to blank prelim page. Contents remarkably clean and sound.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: original decorated cloth, ownership signature at head of half-title, unopened, fine; 382 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
BROWN John Crombie. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works. William Blackwood & Sons 1879, 1879.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: original cloth, spine chipped with minor loss at head, two tiny vents upper hinge, a nice copy. one of the few books published about this author in her lifetime; first edition; 114 pages; keywords: literary criticism;
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
George Eliot. Impressions of Theophrastus Such.. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1879.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Impressions of Theophrastus Such. By George Eliot and printed in Edinburgh by William Blackwood and Sons. 1879, 357 pp, 7.75 x 5.25, 8vo, hardcover 3/4 leather. As-is, with front board detached. Rear board and spine remain bound well. Rubbing and wear to boards, primarily along edges and corners. Includes inserted publishers notice on a publication delay. Light pencil remnants to first end page. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce 1st edition of the fictional and semi-satirical novel by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans - 1819-1880). This would ultimately be Eliots last published work prior to her death due to illness the next year. A wonderful piece for restoration. COLL1879CBDX-0124-aj0920
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smartly bound second edition of George Eliot's last published writing, Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Eliot's last published writing and arguably the most experimental. A series of literary essays by an imaginary minor scholar whose eccentric character is revealed through his work. In a series of eighteen sometimes satirical character studies, Theophrastus Such focuses on various types of people he has observed in society. 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. Previously held in the library of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Bound in half crushed morocco with patterned boards. Externally, smart with rubbing resulting in minor loss to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Previous owner's bookplates to the front pastedown and endpapers. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$596.08 + shipping
Description: 24 volume set small octavo (11.5cm x17.5cm) all volumes three quarter leather with gilt tooling and lettering, five raised bands, marbled boards, all edges marbled, marbled eps, The Cabinet Edition published circa 1879-1880. VG, ex library with pockets to front pastedowns, date sheet to fep and stamp to title page - otherwise a handsome and tight tidy set, light rubbing and scuffing to exterior, occassional light foxing to prelims
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand