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Price: US$106.29 + shipping
Description: 2nd Ed. 2 vols. viii + 352pp. + viii + 327pp. + [i]. Port. frontis., frontis and facsimile of handwriting. Large ownership inscription to front f.e.ps., plates lightly spotted, half calf with marbled boards, rubbed, joints split but firm with a couple of sm. cracks intruding onto spines, sl. wear to corners, gilt filleted raised bands dec. gilt compartments and gilt lettered red leather title labels to lightly browned and sl. rubbed spines with sl. wear at head and tail. US$105
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte). Villette. Smith Elder, 1857.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed by Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1857, new edition. Charlotte Brontë (1816 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell. Brontë's third novel, the last published in her lifetime, was Villette, which was first published in 1853. Villette was acknowledged by critics of the day as a potent and sophisticated piece of writing although it was criticized for "coarseness" and for not being suitably "feminine" in its portrayal of Lucy's desires. This book, 478 pages, is half leather bound with mottled boards, which match the endpapers. The binding is a bit faded and scuffed but the book is square and very sound. The only page that has some discoloring is the title page and several that follow. Overall, a very attractive copy of an early edition of one of Britains most cherished authors.
Seller: Raven & Gryphon Fine Books, Hackett's Cove, NS, Canada
Price: US$394.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: viii, 359; viii, 336, 16 p. 2 vols. Ex-library, corners worn and torn, slightly stained.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$419.86 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus, very fine condition. The Life of Charlotte Bronte Author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette Special Collection by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Published by Smith, Elder And Co. in 1857. Hardcover. 2 vols. 8vo. With publisher's catalogue dated June 1857. Bound in at the rear of vol. 2 a newspaper fragment from The Standard, Dec. 6, 1906, announcing the death of Charlotte's husband the Rev. A.B. Nicholls. At the end of vol. 1 the original Westley? s? ticket has been preserved. Smith Gaskell p. 109-110. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Price: US$618.37 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two volumes, octavo (21 x 13cm). 'Though the work reflects what Charlotte Bronte told Elizabeth Gaskell of her early life, as well as the contents of Bronte's letters, the Life can be seen also as a novel in which Charlotte Bronte is the heroine whose creator has chosen the details that most clearly project the desired image.'- Todd. Vol. I, pp. viii,352; Vol. II, pp. viii, 327,[1],16. With a frontispiece portrait to the first volume, frontispiece view to the second, both engraved on steel, plate with a facsimile of the MS, and 16pp. publisher's adverts dated March 1857. A smart copy bound in 20th C half red morocco by Riviere & Son, the spines with raised bands, gilt, with cloth sides & marbled endpapers and an engraved armorial bookplate. The cloth covers, front & back, and spines, neatly laid down & bound at the rear of both volumes. Vg. [Parrish 64; Yablon & Turner 195; Smith 105; Symington 58; Sadleir 928; Todd 269]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. Smith Elder, UK, 1857.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: New Edition 1857. Also the 6th Edition overall and a first printing as a Uniform edition. A rare early Jane Eyre. Smith Elder re-published all the Bronte novels in 1857 to widen the appeal of their books. They were produced cheaply in yellow cloth and are difficult to find in collectible condition. The book is about good with a darkened spine and boards. Wording on spine and boards very fulled. Cloth marked in places. Edges lightly rubbed. Quite a tight binding. In a un-restored condition. Contents quite good. Pages lightly marked and used in places. More images can be taken upon request. Ref
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Brontë, Charlotte (as Curer Bell). The Professor, A Tale (2 vols.). Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1857.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavos. Vol.1: (viii) 294pp. 2pp. Vol.2: 258pp. [1] 8pp. Original period brown morocco boards, spine with gilt lettering on red labels and raised bands. Gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers. A very nice copy of the first edition of the first novel written by Charlotte Brontë. Although written before the author's breakout success with Jane Eyre, this novel was originally rejected by publishers at the time, and was not published until two years after her untimely death in 1855. Both volumes are complete with the original period publisher's advertisements on numbered pages at the rear. Noted printing errors in this true first issue copy are the transposing of the last letters on the first two lines of p.21 in volume 1, the periods missing at the end of the headlines of pages 58 and 221 of volume 2, and the "p" at the beginning of the third line of p. 99 (vol.2) missing. Bindings with some light rubbing to extremities, and some minor scratching, abrasions and/or stains to the covers. Minor chipping to the head of the spine of the second volume. Book blocks tight. Interior with a very few minor instances of smudges or tiny water stains. Light pencil notes on the initial blank of the first volume. Bindings in very good-, interior in near fine condition overall.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2254.46 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two volumes. Original publisher's brown chocolate cloth, decorated in blind to the covers and with gilt titles to the spine. A very good set indeed, in unrestored original cloth. Each volume slightly cocked, with some rubbing to the spine ends. Contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedowns in each volume. Engraved frontispiece to each volume.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom