George Moore — Heloise and Abelard

New York, Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by Boni and Liveright, 1921 . First edition. Hardback. The limited edition first American edition of Irish novelist George Moore's novelisation of the tragic lives of ill-fated lovers Heloise and Abelard. A limited edition, privately printed work. The first American edition. Complete in two volumes. Limited to 1,250 sets of which 1,200 were for sale. This set is number 209. George Moore offers a historical novel based on the lives of the twelfth-century philosopher Peter Abelard and his pupil Heloise. Drawing closely on their surviving letters and other medieval sources, Moore reconstructs their intellectual partnership, love affair, secret marriage, Abelard"s mutilation, and the pair"s subsequent religious lives in separate monastic communities. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Boards bright, with back strips age toned and rubbing to volume II spine label. Volume I spine label lacking. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .