Scenes Of Clerical Life
by Eliot, George
Scenes of Clerical Life is the title under which George Eliot's first published fictional work, a collection of three short stories, was released in book form, and the first of her works to be released under her famous pseudonym. The stories were first published in Blackwood's Magazine over the course of the year 1857, initially anonymously, before being released as a two-volume set by Blackwood and Sons in January 1858.
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by ELIOT George 1819-1880 [ie EVANS Mary Anne later CROSS]
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- 1st Edition
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- 1858
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Llandudno, Conwy, GBR
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NZ$5,264.75
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG, 1st ed, 1858. The Authors rarest book, especially in the original cloth, as is this. 2 Vols, maroon embossed cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, light wear along front edges, corners bumped.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by ELIOT, George
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- 1890
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$124.88
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New York: Merrill and Baker, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Two volumes in green cloth. Very good with some wear to the edges. From the personal library of H. (Henry) Thornton Craven with his book plate and stamp with shelf location in each volume, and shelf marker on spines. H. Thornton Craven (1818-1905) was an English… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by Eliot, George
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- 1858
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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NZ$29,970.00
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Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1858. First edition of George Eliot's first published work of fiction, three related stories of love and loss in an English village: "The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton," "Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story," and "Janet's Repentance." The stories first appeared anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine in 1857, and were published together the following year as the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by George Eliot
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- Used - Fair
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- No Jacket
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- First Thus
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- 1907
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- Hardcover
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$21.06
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Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1907 Book. Fair. Black Leather. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The Warwick Edition of George Eliot's Works, Vol V. 615pp. Title and half-title pages printed in red and black. Top edges gilt. Backstrip missing, rubbing to edges and corners and former owner's name in pencil to front endpaper, otherwise… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life.
by ELIOT, George.
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- 1858
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London, GBR
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NZ$34,747.35
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons,, 1858. Her first book, an unrestored copy in the original cloth First edition in book form of George Eliot's first published work of fiction, collecting three short stories previously serialized in Blackwood's Magazine from January to November 1857. Sadleir, writing in 1951, remarks that the book "in any state is now rare",… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by Eliot, George
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- 1900
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Didcot, Oxfordshire, GBR
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NZ$14.00
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Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1900. Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. No publication date stated; it was not published in 1900. Minor marks and wear to the boards. The leading corners and spine ends are frayed. Light creases on a few of the rough cut pages. The binding is weak and visible on the title page… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by George Eliot
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- Used - Very Good Condition
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Third Edition
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- 1860
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- Hardcover
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Doncaster, Aberdeen, GBR
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NZ$326.41
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William Blackwood and Sons, London; Edinburgh, 1860. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2 matching volumes with brown blind decorated covers and gilt decoration and lettering on the spines, brown end-papers, small label at lower inside of rear cover of Volume I "Bound By Edmonds & Remnants, London". Cover corners and spine ends… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life (complete in two volumes - Standard Edition The Works of George Eliot)
by George Eliot
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- 1900
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- Hardcover
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Foster, Rhode Island, USA
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NZ$166.50
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William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. William Blackwood and Sons; Edinburgh, ND. Hardcover. Complete 2 Volume Set. 5 raised bands, 3/4 gilt lined leather binding, author/title info in gilt on spine, TEG. Condition: Good, some shelf wear/edge wear to leather tips/spine, frayed joints/spine compartments, some staining to boards, previous owner bookplate to front pastedown of both… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by ELIOT, George
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1858
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Rocky River, Ohio, USA
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NZ$2,081.25
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 2 volumes, 366pp., 381pp. Without half-titles. A very good set, very bright and clean internally. Bound in contemporary 3/4 red polished calf over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Corners and outer joints rubbed and a bit dry, and outer joint of volume… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by George Eliot
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- No date
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- Softcover
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Petworth, West Sussex, GBR
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NZ$36.85
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London: Collins, No date. Softcover. Very Good. 16mo.. In the Collins' Clear-Type series, a small volume, 16 mo, bound in maroon morocco with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Edges are bumped and spine is a little worn top and bottom with a small tear to top. Maroon endpapers. Gilt top edges. Pages are age tanned but clean.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by Eliot, George [Mary Ann Evans]
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- First Edition
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- 1858
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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NZ$15,817.50
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Rare in the publisher's original maroon cloth binding with boards decorated in blind and spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to cloth and sunning to spines, front cover of Volume I lightly spotted. Previous owner names to front free endpaper… Read more about this item Item Price
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SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE
by Eliot George
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- 1858
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
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NZ$3,388.28
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. 2 volumes. First Edition. With both half-titles. 8vo, in handsome antique full green morocco, the covers with double-ruled gilt fillet lines at the edges, the spines with ornate gilt framed panels between raised bands, two compartments with gilt lettering, additional gilt lettering at the tail and gilt ruling at both… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by Eliot, George [pseud. Mary Ann Evans]
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1909
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- Leather
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Toronto, Ontario, CAN
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NZ$607.50
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. First Edition. Leather. Fine. Hugh Thomson. First edition thus. 8vo. 429pp. Full brown straight grained calf by Zaehnsdorf, with gilt fillet borders, 5 raised bands, with dark green title labels and gilt decorated compartments of swirling fleurons, inner dentelles and brown marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, with the original brown silk ribbon… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by Eliot, George
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- Used - Fair
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- 1921
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- Hardcover
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Cardiff, GBR
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NZ$6.30
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Oxford University Press World's Classics, 1921. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Leather blind tooled boards with gilt titles to spine. Leather partially missing to lower backstrip and lower front board, though board has not split at hinge. Front fep missing. Internally clean and binding secure though spine shaky. Overall a good reading copy.
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by George Eliot
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- Used - Tight and clean
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- 1913
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- Leather Softcover
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Waynesville, Ohio, USA
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NZ$41.62
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Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1913. Leather Softcover. Tight and clean. ***Please Read*** Nelson's Editions De Luxe: bound in limp genuine Morocco leather with red under gold edges, pocket size (4 x 6 inches), printed on India paper - Book shows moderate wear (see picture) with cracked but intact troughs - 615 pages - my shelf location SO-g-8*… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by Eliot, George
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- Used - Good
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- Hardcover
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, NZL
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NZ$13.32
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London: Collins N.d. Red cloth decorated in gilt on spine, gilt stamped author's name on front panel. B/w Frontispiece plus 5 B/w Plates. Spine has tiny chip to top end, label mark on tail end. Small signature verso Ffep. Verso Frontispiece is p/o stamp, name stamp plus previous pricemarking. Exterior edges of pages foxed and darkened. . Hard Cover. Good/No… Read more about this item Item Price
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SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE; Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
by Eliot, George
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- Used - Good Plus
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- 1906
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- Hardcover
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Eugene, Oregon, USA
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NZ$183.15
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London, England: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906. Hardcover. Good Plus. Hugh Thomson. 12mo., 7.3 in. x 5 in., pp. Illustrated with tissue-guarded colored frontis plus fifteen additional colored plates, and thirty-five in-text black and white drawings. Blue-green cloth boards with elaborate gilt flock-of-sheep design and title to front and spine. All edges gilt. Rubbing to extremities; corners showing.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes of Clerical Life
by George Eliot
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- Used - Good
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- 1921
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- Hardcover
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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NZ$10.78
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Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford, 1921. Hardcover. Good. 1921. 424 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes Of Clerical Life
by George Eliot
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Hardcover
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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NZ$12.61
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George Routledge & Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 544 pages. No dust jacket. Dark blue cloth. Minor tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and notable tanning to text block edges and there is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have visible edge wear and corner bending. Peeling to spine and corners and splitting… Read more about this item Item Price
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SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE
by George Eliot
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- Sterling Edition
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- N.D.
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- Hardcover
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Pomona, New York, USA
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NZ$374.54
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Boston: Estes & Lauriat. N.D.. Sterling Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Open tears on spine heel and panel corners. Shelfwear on spine and panel side edges. Author spine label removed. Chipping on title spine label. . Item Price
NZ$374.54