Search Results: Authors starting with E from Sumner & Stillman

1880. Received from her brother Isaac (surviving Trustee). Single half-leaf, scant 5" x 8". N.p., June 1880. The signature on this receipt -- Mary Ann Cross -- tells us that this was from the incredible final half-year of George Eliot's life. The text of the receipt is written in black ink in a lawyer's (or her brother's) hand: June 1880 Received of Mr Isaac Pearson Evans the surviving Trustee under my late Father's will Forty four pounds and fourpence being half a year's Dividend on money in the funds due to me in April last and 6.11.6 Bank Interest on a sum lately invested. 44.0.4 Mary Ann Cross [signed in purple ink, over a one-penny Inland Revenue stamp]. The receipt is in fine condition except for folds (due to initial mailing and filing); the verso includes filing information in the same legal hand. Mary Anne [sic] Evans, born in 1819, met the love of her life in 1851 -- the agnostic philosopher George Lewes -- and they began living together in 1854, four years before her first published… Read More

1861. [the "A" binding, fine] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 16 pp undated ads + 4 pp (Carlyle) ads bearing January 1861 reviews. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition of George Eliot's only single-volume novel ("a short and simple one, but flawlessly fashioned"). SILAS MARNER is a novel of remarkable quality. Idyllic, certainly, but nowhere does it strain belief or offer coincidence as a resolution... There is not a superfluous line in the narrative and the book has charm, a quality rarely found in the work of the great Victorian novelists [CGEL]. This was George Eliot's third novel, following ADAM BEDE and THE MILL ON THE FLOSS (published in the prior two years, also by Blackwood); after SILAS MARNER she would temporarily abandon her successful environment of rural England, and fail miserably with ROMOLA, sited in 1490s Italy. This copy is in Carter's "binding A," with the more elaborate giltwork on the spine (a variation also present on Eliot's two… Read More

1951. The Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture. Harvard University. November 21, 1950. London: Faber & Faber, (1951). Original red cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published about six months after the one by the Harvard University Press. This is a fine copy, in a dust jacket that is very good (one unnecessary internal mend, very slight edge-wear, price-clipped). Gallup A57b.

1844. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark brown blind-stamped vertically-ribbed cloth. First Edition, first state, first binding -- of Emerson's "2d Series" of ESSAYS, which like his 1841 first series, was underwritten by himself. This "Second Series" of nine more essays was published by Munroe, in two printings dated 1844 which have 23 minor textual differences enumerated by Myerson. (Since Myerson notes that "nearly every copy examined" is a combination of sheets from both printings, and that "copies composed exclusively of first or second printing sheets are scarce," he treats the two ("a-b") as the first state of this book.) Myerson also notes that there are four binding states, each of which consists of several different colors or grains of cloth; in listing them as "A" through "D", he notes that "A" copies have the most first-printing points, while "D" copies have the fewest first-printing points. This copy is in binding "A" -- specifically, dark brown… Read More