Adam Bede

Printed by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1859, first US edition. Mary Anne Evans (1819 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (187172), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Adam Bede was her first novel. This book, 452 pages plus adverts, is bound in brown cloth with and embossed design on the covers. The covers are worn and the spine is also chipped and worn through at the top, bottom and a small strip in the middle. The vertical ends of the boards are also worn through.The binding is tight. Internally, the pages are in great shape with no foxing or discoloration. There is a presentation label pasted inside the front cover. Overall, a very acceptable copy of the first novel of a major female writer of the nineteenth century.…