Chapter I was originally published as “Conversation in Ebury Street” in London Mercury, August 1922, and in Atlantic Monthly, September 1922.
Chapter II, previously unpublished.
Chapter III is a reworking of “Balzac” in Impressions and Opinions (A15).
Chapters IV-V were originally published as “George Moore and John Freeman” in the Dial, October 1923.
Chapters VI-XI previously unpublished.
Chapter XII is a rewriting of the article on Verlaine, “A Great Poet,” in Impressions and Opinions.
Chapter XIII is a rewriting of the article on Rimbaud and Laforgue, “Two Unknown Poets,” in Impressions and Opinions.
Chapter XIV previously unpublished.
Chapter XV also published as section II of “The Thesis” in Pure Poetry (A47).
Chapter XVI originally published as “The Cinderella of Literature” in the Fortnightly Review, April 1923, and as “Mr. Moore Talks to Mr. Gosse” in the Atlantic Monthly, April 1923.
Chapter XVII originally published as “George Moore and Granville Barker” in the Fortnightly Review, July 1923, and in the Dial, August 1923.
Chapter XVIII previously unpublished.
Chapter XIX originally published as “Sunt lacrimae rerum” in the Fortnightly Review, December 1923.

Most of the chapters stated as being “previously unpublished” have distinct echoes of GM’s earlier critical articles.

A46-2a First American (Carra) edition

Title Page

CONVERSATIONS

IN EBURY STREET

GEORGE MOORE

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Carra Edition

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PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY BY

BONI AND LIVERIGHT, INC., NEW YORK

1924

Launch

Published February 1924 at $8.50 in an edition of 1,000 copies

Description

Height: 8 3/4 in; 8.75 in; 22.23 cm

Width: 5 1/2 in; 5.5 in; 13.97 cm

[1-19]8, [20]1 (tipped in); pp [vi], 300, comprising:

blank leaf, pp [i-ii];
half titie, verso blank, pp [iii-iv];
publisher’s note on slip [3 in; 7.62 cm x 4⅜ in; 4.38 in; 11.11 cm] tipped in,

TO SUBSCRIBERS

The CARRA Edition of the works of

GEORGE MOORE originally planned for

twenty-one volumes has been completed in

Twenty volumes. The present volume (Con-

versations in Ebury Street) is the last.

Any new books by GEORGE MOORE will be

added to this set and subscribers are ur-

gently requested to leave their name and

address with their bookseller or direct with

Boni & Liveright, so that they may be noti-

fied when a new volume is ready.

not paginated;

title page, with

CONVERSATIONS IN EBURY STREET

(Carra Edition)

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Boni & Liveright, Inc.

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Printed in the United States of America

in center and notice of limitation, same as other volumes of Carra Edition (see A36-4a), except “twenty” and not “twenty-one” volumes are specified, at foot of verso, pp [v-vi];

fly title, verso blank, pp [1-2];
text pp 3-298;
pp [299-300] blank;
bluish-gray endpapers;
all edges untrimmed;
bluish-gray paper-covered sides, matching endpapers,
white parchment spine, with white label on spine, lettered in black, except as noted:

Conver-

sations

in Ebury

Street

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George Moore [in red]

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Carra Edition

Volume XX

two plain rules, with decorative rule between them, all in red, at top and bottom of label

Text same as first edition (A46-a), with the addition of the French lecture, “Shakespeare et Balzac,” transferred from Avowals (A38-3a) and included as chapter IV, making twenty chapters in this edition instead of the nineteen in previous editions.

The type of this edition, reimposed with fewer lines per page, was used for:

A46-2a2 Boni and Liveright edition

Boni and Liveright, New York, September 1924 in format matching other Boni and Liveright trade editions (see A52-2a for description); reprinted January 1925.

A46-b Second English (Uniform) edition, revised

Title Page

CONVERSATIONS IN

EBURY STREET

GEORGE MOORE

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London

William Heinemann Ltd.

1930

Launch

Published February 1930 at 10/6

Description

Height: 9 in; 22.86 cm

Width: 5 3/8 in; 5.38 in; 5.38 cm

[A]8, B-R8, S4 (—S4) ; pp [xviii], 270, comprising:

blank leaf, pp [i-ii];
half title, with list of six titles

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN

THE SAME FORMAT

on verso, pp [iii-iv];

title page, with

First published, in a Limited Edition, 1924

New and Revised Edition, February, 1930

in center and

Printed in Great Britain at

The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey

at foot of verso, pp [v-vi];

ADVERTISEMENT, verso blank, pp [vii-viii];
text pp 1-270;
extra spine label tipped on recto of free rear endpaper;
white endpapers;
all edges untrimmed;
marbled paper-covered board sides,
brown cloth spine, with white paper label on spine, lettered in brown:

Conver-

sations

Ebury

Street

George

Moore

Heinemann

“Advertisement” previously unpublished; text same as first edition (A46-a) with addition of a new conversation between Mrs. Harley-Caton and GM inserted as chapter XII.

Reissued in a different binding as:

A46-b2 Ebury Edition

Ebury Edition, Heinemann, London, September 1936.

An offset impression, reproduced slightly reduced from sheets of this edition, issued in:

A46-b3 The Landmark Library

The Landmark Library, No. 12, Chatto & Windus, London, 24 July 1969.

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