ELIOT, GEORGE (EVANS, MARY ANN) — Adam Bede

London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1952. Hardcover. A 1952 edition of George Eliot's first novel, originally published in 1859. A tragedy, the story focuses on a quartet of young people and is centered on the death of an infant due its mother's neglect. With an introduction by Gerald Bullett, a brief biographical sketch of the author by "H.d.R." and with a black & white frontis image of Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot). An entry in Collins New Classics series. --- Bound in full blue cloth-covered boards with simple gilt spine titling, grey patterned endpapers and blue topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A bright, unmarked, tightly bound copy though with light sunning to spine, otherwise lacking damages worthy of mention.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; 477 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .