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THBThree George Moore Books (Two Volumes Total), Limited Editions, Signed 1921
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Three George Moore Books (Two Volumes Total), Limited Editions, Signed 1921.
Sizes: 9 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 1 in. 9 1/8 x 5 3/4 in. (2)
These books are limited editions from 1921, both signed by George Moore.
The first is Memoirs of My Dead Life by George Moore (1852 - 1933), an Irish novelist, poet, and playwright who was particularly influenced by the works of Émile Zola. Moore’s writings influenced James Joyce, and Moore is often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist. The book was first published in 1906, it’s a romance and tragedy set in the backdrop of Victorian Ireland and Dublin, and it explores love, loss, and the search for meaning in a world that seems to have lost purpose.
The book has a paper label on a cream-colored spine, gray-green boards and endpapers, a half-title followed by a list of works by the author, a colored frontis probably of Moore as a child, a protective tissue guard, then the title page which reads “Memoirs of My Dead Life Of Galantries, Meditations and Remembrances Soliloquies or Advice to Lovers, with Many Miscellaneous Reflections on Virtue & Merit by George Moore of Moore Hall Co. Mayo” and it was published in London by Heinemann in 1921. The title page also has a vignette of Moore Hall, where his family lived - Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. The copyright page is dated 1921, the limitation page is signed by Moore and says the book is number 317 of 1030 copies, of which 1000 were for sale. A three-page Epistle Dedicatory was written by Moore and dated May 5, 1921, then an eight-page Prelude (xi- xviii), one page of Contents, 290 pages of text, and the book was printed by Richard Clay and Sons at Bunguy, Suffolk, according to the last page of the text. There are no illustrations or drawings except for the picture of Moore Hall on the title page.
The book measures 9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches wide and is in good condition, with a tight binding and clean pages and text, offset on the title page from the tissue guard, light wear at the crown and heel, corner wear at one tip, light bumps on the bottom tips, and a sound copy of this limited edition signed by Moore.
The second set of books is Heloise and Abelard, a limited edition published and signed by Moore in 1921.
This two-volume set by George Moore is based on a true story from the twelfth century - a love affair between Abelard and Heloise that did not end well. Heloise was the niece of Fulbert, the canon of Notre Dame, and Fulbert entrusted her education to the care of Abelard, a well-known poet, philosopher, and musician who fell in love with Heloise; they secretly married, and Fulbert was none too happy about it - he sent his henchmen to seize and castrate Abelard, and Abelard ended up as a monk and Heloise became a nun. True story.
The set was privately printed in London by Cumann Sean-Eolais nah Eireann in 1921 and is a limited edition that was signed by George Moore. The books have a paper label on a cream-colored spine, gray-green covers and endpapers with the bookplate of Samuel Thomas Stahl in a decorative art deco style, the half-title, a page with a list of limited editions by George Moore, then the title page which says the books were printed for subscribers only, a dedication page to Madame X in French, the limitation page is numbered 480 of 1500 copies and signed by Moore, the first volume has 262 pages and the second one has 252 pages, both books were printed at the Riverside Press in Edinburgh, there are no illustrations or drawings in either book, and they have deckled edges.
The books measure 9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches wide, with tight bindings and clean pages and text, light rubbing and light bumps at the tips in Vol I, light bumps on the heel and light rubbing at the tips in the second volume and a small blackspot on page 198 in the same volume, and overall a sound set of this limited edition of Heloise and Abelard signed by George Moore. A romance that just didn’t go well for its two stars.
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