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Romola; Adam Bede; Felix Holt
by George Eliot
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William Blackwood and Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. People's Edition. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Felix Holt is the Sixpenny Edition. Red cloth with black and gilt lettering. Three books in one. Book dates in order are 1903, 1899, and 1904. Gilt page edges. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to pages throughout. Some gutter cracking. Presentation plate to front paste down. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with large split to top third of front joint. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing and marking to boards.
Synopsis
Romola (1862–63) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". It first appeared in fourteen parts published in Cornhill Magazine from July 1862 (vol. 6, no. 31) to August 1863 (vol. 8, no. 44).
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1676535349MHP
- Title
- Romola; Adam Bede; Felix Holt
- Author
- George Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Acceptable
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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