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Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Light green cloth decoratively stamped flower pattern in gilt on spine, teg. Illustrated. Edgewear overall, superficial soiling boards, a clean and tight copy
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
BRONTE, CHARLOTTE. Shirley.. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. In the "Thornton Edition" of the Novels of the Sisters Bronte edited by Temple Scot; 1st Thornton edition. Plates. 6vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches), original green cloth, the spine art nouveau floral gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Fore-edge of text block browned. Some browning to endpapers. Corners bumped. White spotting to upper cover of volume two.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Light green cloth decoratively stamped flower pattern in gilt on spine, teg. Illustrated. Offsetting front free endpaper from newspaper laid in volume 1, spine just a touch toned, both volumes near fine, clean and tight
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Light green cloth decoratively stamped flower pattern in gilt on spine, teg. Illustrated. Edgewear overall, superficial soiling boards, a clean and tight set
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Bronte, Charlotte and Temple Scott. Villette, Volume 1 and 2. John Grant, Edinburgh, 1905.
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Description: Two volume set bound in green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt; each volume with bw illustrated frontispiece. Volume 1 is 421 pp. Volume 2 is 406 pp. "With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances."-publisher's description. Good+ (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clean.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3202.16 + shipping
Description: [Prose Works] LEATHER BOUND THORNTON EDITION, first printings thus. 12 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Elegantly bound in navy blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles on twin red leather labels, matching blue cloth-covered sides, top edges gilt, others trimmed. Contents clean, exteriors unmarked. A fine set in an attractive recent leather binding. The first printing of the Thornton Edition of the Novels of the Bronte Sisters, which is considered the definitive complete works, and includes Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Life of Charlotte Bronte'.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom