Novels of George Eliot (7 Volume Set)
by ELIOT, GEORGE
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1892. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 8vo. - Eight works bound as seven volumes including "Adam Bede", "The Mill on the Floss", Volumes III "Silas Marner" and IV "Scenes of a Clerical Life" bound as one volume, "Felix Holt", "Romola", Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda" - Half bound in calf w/ red marbled boards - Gilt decoration and five raised bands to spine - Red marble endpapers - Marbled edges of text block - Previous owner's name in ink to prelim pages of all seven volumes - Boards edges rubbed w/ boards exposed - Hinges breached but not open - Gilt decoration faded and rubbed - Scratches and marks to marbled paper w/ Daniel Deronda and Middlemarch most faded - Chips to Calf including corners and spine ends - Some foxing and toning to content - Volumes ow/ solid and clean - A Lovely Set -
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- Bookseller
- Green Ink Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 636909
- Title
- Novels of George Eliot (7 Volume Set)
- Author
- ELIOT, GEORGE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- No dustwrapper
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Hay on Wye, Powys
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