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Price: US$254.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). Text starts at title page. 4 and 320 pages. (p318-20 - Jane Eyre - press etc). Fairly clean tight text shows some signs of being read and text edges are darkened. Suitable to rebind. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1236.03 + shipping
Description: 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, uniform mid-nineteenth inscription above title on all three title-pages, fore-margins mildly age-soiled (rather more heavily so on first leaves of first volume; see below); attractively bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back ruled with six flat bands, second compartments lettered in gilt, fourth compartments numbered in gilt, backstrip gilt faded (but all lettering and numbering wholly legible), neatly recased with new endpapers, sprinkled edges, a very good, tight copy. The work was issued without half-titles. This is likely to be an early issue since it is bound without the 16pp publisher's catalogue dated October 1849 sometimes found at end of first volume. With the first of two leaves of publisher's advertisements at end of third volume. The mid-nineteenth century presentation inscription above titles is blotted and obtrusive but nowhere affects printed lettering. This copy has the following minor imperfections: Vol. I: mild marginal age-soiling to title and following eight leaves, short closed tear on title neatly repaired on verso; Vol. III: wanting second leaf of publisher's advertisements at end. The first leaf (here present) contains the announcement of the third edition of Jane Eyre, the second leaf (here absent) contains press opinions of the same work. Overall a nice copy of the author's second novel (set during the Luddite riots) in partially restored period binding. SCARCE. Sadleir 348; Smith, p.112; Parrish, p. 93; Wise 6 (pp.22-29)
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Bell, Currer [Charlotte Bronte]. Shirley. A Tale [Three Volumes]. Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1849.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Three volumes bound in somewhat contemporary three-quarter vellum over cloth. Very Good with former owner bookplates to front pastedowns and bookseller tickets to rear pastedowns, foxing, several pages repaired with tape. Staining to covers of volume III, with several preliminary and terminal pages stained at the edges as well.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1280.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~First edition, rebound in mid-20th-century half tan calf, red-brown morocco-grained cloth (? possibly leather) to boards. Gilt lettering and decor to spines; two red-brown gilt and one black gilt label per spine. Slight fading to spines and to rear boards near spines. 8vos (12.5 x 19.5cm). Hinges sound. Replacement endpapers (just starting in vol. II, front gutter). Bibliographic pencil inscription to front free endpaper of vol. I. Moderate scattered foxing and the occasional small mark to text block. Crease to top corner of Vol. II, p. 97, 294 & vol. III, p. 30. Very minor edgewear to Vol. III, pp. 55-58. Without the 16pp. publisher's catalogue sometimes found bound at the end of vol. I, but with the 3pp. publisher's advertisement to rear of vol. III: 'opinions of the press on Jane Eyre', as advertisement for the 'lately published' third edition. Without half-titles, as issued. Charlotte Bronte's second novel, set during the Luddite riots of 1811-12. Sadleir 348; Symington 25-26. ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request. Size: iv, 303 + iv, 308 + iv, 320pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 303; 308; 320. Bound without half-titles, and Vol. I without the ads; but including the ads at the end of Vol. III. 8vo. 1/2 vellum over waxed-paper-covered boards; bound by Holder & Son, Kirkdale, Sydenham, with label to front pastedowns. Gilt lettering to spines. Bookplate to front pastedowns, some spotting (wax drips, fingerprints, and the like, occasionally and throughout), creases from dog earing, a few pencil marks, expected age-toning. The contents show heavier use than the bindings, suggesting to me that the books were voraciously read at perhaps indiscriminate times (like breakfast), and the story loved well enough to deserve a lovely (re-)binding, ca. 1900. With bookseller's catalogue description of a like set, taped to front pastedown of Vol. I.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada