A66 George Moore in Transition

Table of Contents

A66-a First edition

Title Page

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Description

Contents

A66-a First edition

Title Page

GEORGE MOORE

IN TRANSITION

Letters to T. Fisher Unwin and

Lena Milman, 1894-1910

edited with a commentary by

Helmut E. Gerber, PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1968

Launch

Published 19 April 1968 at $12 in an edition of 2,176 copies.

Description

Height: 9 in; 22.86 cm

Width: 5 7/8 in; 5.88 in; 14.92 cm

[l-7]16, [8]4 [9-10]16, [11]8, [12]16; pp 344, comprising:

• half title, with reproduction of Tonks’s drawing of GM previously used as frontispiece in first edition of Sister Teresa (A25-a) on verso, pp [1-2];
• title page, with copyright, etc., on verso, pp [3-4];
• dedication, verso blank, pp [5-6];
• table of “Contents,” verso blank, pp [7-8];
• “Preface” pp 9-15;
• p [16] blank;
• “Acknowledgements” pp 17-19;
• p [20] blank;
• “Abbreviations,” verso blank, pp 21-[22];
• sectional title, verso blank, pp [23-24];
• commentary and text of letters pp 25-333, with pp [48], [100], [120], [228] blank, and sectional title, verso blank, pp [321-22];
• p [334] blank;
• “Index of Names” pp 335-342;
• note on editor, type design and printing, verso blank, pp [343-44];
• black endpapers;
• white head and tail bands;
• bound in purple cloth, back and front covers plain,
• lettered down spine:

Gerber [gilt] GEORGE MOORE IN TRANSITION [white]

[horizontally within oval] Wayne [white]

Contents

In addition to the extended commentary by the editor there are 298 letters, excerpts and telegrams from GM, including 183 to Unwin, 94 to Miss Milman, and 21 to various other correspondents. There are also two letters from J.E. Blanche to Unwin about a portrait of GM being considered as a frontispiece to one of his books; and excerpts from other letters by GM to various correspondents are included in the commentary.