The Mill on the Floss
by Eliot, George
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York & Franklin Square: Harper & Brothers and W.I. Pooley & Co., 1860. The second published novel by Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), a classic of English literature. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition, published the same year as the English version. Brown pebbled cloth binding, ruled and stamped with a Harper logo. Clean text; 464 pages, with four pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. There is a faint penciled name/notes on the FFEP; head and foot of spine are rubbed; corners are bumped. The rear gutter is cracked but holding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Synopsis
GEORGE ELIOT was born in Nuneaton on November 22, 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836. She later moved to Coventry with her father. After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch , her most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch . The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on December 22, 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002975
- Title
- The Mill on the Floss
- Author
- Eliot, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers and W.I. Pooley & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York & Franklin Square
- Date Published
- 1860
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic English Literature;
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Quercus Rare Books
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Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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