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Verlag: Palala Press 28 A, 2016
ISBN 10: 1354940865ISBN 13: 9781354940860
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. The Writings Of George Eliot: George Eliot's Life As Related In Her Letters And Journals This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Verlag: Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885, 1885
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition, presentation copy, sent by the editor, Eliot's widower John Walter Cross, to an appreciated collaborator of Eliot's, her letters to whom are printed in Volume III. The front free endpaper has a mounted card inscribed by Cross in the publication month, "To Professor James Sully, in memory of his kind helpfulness to George Eliot in 1879 & with grateful thanks from J. W. Cross, London, 29 Jan. 1885". Professor Sully (1842-1923) assisted Eliot in 1879 by penning a 20-page biography of her late partner George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) in New Quarterly Magazine and by proofreading, as an expert in psychology, the final volume of Lewes's Problems of Life and Mind (1874-9). Sully paid frequent visits to Eliot and Lewes from 1874 until Lewes's death in 1878, meeting during these occasions Tennyson and Leslie Stephen, the father of Virginia Woolf. Sully was later a member of Stephen's walking group the Sunday Tramps. Sully's ownership inscription, dated 1885, is on the front free endpapers verso and his neat pencil annotations occasionally feature in the margins. Volume III prints five letters from Eliot to Sully. Four of these are dated 1879 and discuss the legacy of Lewes. In one letter, Eliot thanks Sully "for the help you have given me in my sad and anxious task. Your eyes have been a most precious aid" (p. 380). In another, she states of his biography of Lewes, "I think that he would himself have regarded it as a generally just estimate. Your selection of subjects for remark, and the remarks themselves, are in accordance with my feeling to a comforting extent; and I shall always remain your debtor for writing the article" (p. 378). The earliest letter to Sully printed here, dated 1877, is well-known among literary historians and is cited in the OED for Eliot's line "I don't know that I ever heard anybody use the word 'meliorist' except myself" (p. 301). The meliorist worldview, that human effort can slowly make the world a better place, was vital in Eliot's fiction to such a degree that her contemporaries, including Sully, erroneously credited her with coining the term (see Pessimism, p. 399). Eliot (1819-1880) spent decades cohabiting with her soulmate Lewes, though they never married. Following his death, Eliot wedded the younger John Walter Cross (1840-1924) in 1880 before dying later that year. Cross then laboured on her legacy just as Eliot and Sully had done for Lewes. Styled by Cross as an "autobiography", the work consists of Eliot's selected personal writings, arranged in chronological order and presenting her comprehensive life story to the public for the first time. Unfortunately, Eliot "suffered a temporary decline in reputation in the decades following her death. This was largely due to her husband's well-meaning but misguided efforts, in the biography he published in three volumes in 1885, to portray her as respectable despite her unorthodox relationship with Lewes [and] as a stuffy, sibylline figure" (ODNB). James Sully, Pessimism: A History and a Criticism, 1877. Three volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, spines and covers ruled and tooled in black, black coated endpapers, edges untrimmed. Frontispieces and 7 plates, all with tissue guards, double-page facsimile of Eliot's handwriting. Errata slip tipped in at end. Loosely inserted card from the Chiswick-based music dealer Charles Bernard. Spines cocked and lightly toned, small frays to spine ends, short split to head of vol. III rear joint, vol. I with small red mark on rear cover and cracked front inner hinge, remaining sound, other inner hinges with cosmetic splits, occasional spots to contents. A very good set.
Verlag: William Blackwood and Sons [1887], Edinburgh and London, 1887
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Various (illustrator). John Walter Cross' intimate biography on his late wife, George Eliot, an illustrated edition inscribed by the author to the half-title. Author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the half-title, 'To Miss Filmer, as a little token of . + with all fond wishes for J. W. Cross, 24 March 1894'. It's uncommon to see anything signed by Cross.George Eliot's biography, written by her husband, John Walter Cross. The couple married on the 16th May 1880, and Eliot died on the 22nd December 1880. A short-lived marriage, it led to a lot of controversy in the last months of Eliot's life, due to Cross being 21 years Eliot's junior.This biography is extracted from Eliot's personal papers, such as her letters and journals.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and eight plates.Collated, complete.A new edition.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Oxford Libraries. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Spine is a little faded. Only a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Spots to the endpapers and fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots, mostly to the first and last few pages. Ink inscription to the half-title. Near Fine. signed by author. book.
Verlag: WENTWORTH PR, 2016
ISBN 10: 1363769057ISBN 13: 9781363769056
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1908
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hardcover. Octavo; 3 volumes; G-; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine, black with gold print, call number label; Boards in black cloth with gold print, mild wear to spine caps and corners, slightly cocked spines, light shelfwear; Text blocks have gilt top edge, library pocket on front pastedown, tanning to endpapers, embossed library stamp on frontispieces and occasional pages within, call number penciled on copyright page, else clean and tight; Vol. 1. xi, 298 pages; Vol. 2. 359 pages; Vol. 3. 361 pages; frontispiece in each vol., illustrated (b&w plates with tissue guards). [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. 1361133. FP New Rockville Stock.
Verlag: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885., Edinburgh and London:, 1885
Anbieter: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Schweiz
Three volumes. 8vo. xiv, 483; vi, 449, [5]; vi, 470 pp. Frontis., illus., index. Original elaborate gilt-stamped calf over marbled boards, t.e.g, binding by TOUT, ribbon bookmark. Bookplate of Amelia Ringe Roller and ink signature, 1893. Very good. George Eliot was the pen-name for Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans.