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Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Description: VG+ hardback, no dustwrapper. Very light edgewear, clean and unmarked. 283 pp 8vo publisher's original orange cloth. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Rough cut page edges. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale.
Seller: High Barn Books, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: From a Limited Edition of 1,000 copies. Frontis illus. "Daisy Lane" by Jack Hewer. Orange cloth covers with Gilt lettering on spines. Top page edges Gilt, other edges untrimmed. Many pages uncut so the book is probably unread. 283 pages. 9 1/2" Tall. Old penciled price etc on endpapers. No other inscriptions.
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two volumes. The Shakespeare Head Bronte, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published by Basil Blackwell and by Houghton Mifflin Company. One thousand copies were printed, of which 500 copies, known as the Large Paper Edition, are the American issue. For the copy number is written by hand "Presentation copy." Beautifully printed with wide margins,and frontispiece drawings of ""Briarfield Rectory" and "A Corner in Nunnally." Bound in blue paper boards backed in cloth, with red leather lettering pieces on the spines. Except for some abrasion to the lettering pieces, a fine copy.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
BELL, Currer [BRONTE, Charlotte]. The Professor. The Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition, Limited to 1000 Copies. Quarto. Original orange cloth over boards, gilt lettering at spine, gilt top edge. Very good, no dust jacket, spine darkened, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Currer Bell ( Charlotte Bronte ). The Professor. The Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, 1931.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of a Limited Edition of 1000 sets,'Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell.' Orange/brown boards,gilt lettering to spine,rough-cut edges (some uncut)spotted,tissue-guarded frontispiece Daisy Lane by Jack Hewer,contents clean and bright.
Seller: eclecticbooks, BOLTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of a Limited Edition of 1000 sets,'Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell.' Both volumes Orange/brown boards,gilt lettering to spine,rough-cut edges, (some uncut)spotted,contents clean & bright. Volume I - tissue-guarded frontispiece Old Rectory,Birstall(Briarfield Rectory) from a drawing by Jack Hewer plus two other illustrations,351pp ;Volume II - frontispiece illustration'A corner at Nunnelly'from a drawing by by Jack Hewerplus two other illustartions,362pp.
Seller: eclecticbooks, BOLTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of a Limited Edition of 1000 sets,'Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell.' Orange/brown boards,gilt lettering to spine,rough-cut edges ( some uncut) spotted,contents clean and bright,tissue-guarded frontispiece in Volume I of Bronte Bridge by Jack Hewer,in Volume II The Church of Sainte Gudule,Brussels.Two further illustrations in each volume.318pp/313pp.
Seller: eclecticbooks, BOLTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty page edges, very minor sunning to spine ends, fore and lower edges untrimmed and slightly softened lower corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with loss at ends of sunned repaired spine and with.nicks and chips to upper and lower edges. Voluume 2 - No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with very tiny mark to front board, dusty page edges, fore and lower edges untrimmed and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with slight loss to very sunned spine ends and upper front edge and with.nicks and chips to upper and lower edges. Total of 713pp. Large paper copy of Charlotte Bronte's Shirley. Tissue-guarded illustrations. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches
Seller: Godley Books, Hyde, United Kingdom
BELL, Currer [BRONTE, Charlotte]. Shirley: A Tale. The Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, 1931.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition, Limited to 1000 Copies. Complete in Two Volumes. Quarto. Original orange cloth over boards, gilt lettering at spine, gilt top edge. Very good, no dust jacket, spines darkened, light edgewear, volume two very slightly askew, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
BELL, Currer [BRONTE, Charlotte]. Villette. The Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, 1931.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition, Limited to 1000 Copies. Complete in Two Volumes. Quarto. Original orange cloth over boards, gilt lettering at spine, gilt top edge. Very good, no dust jacket, spines darkened, light edgewear, top corner of front cover bumped on volume one, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
BRONTE CHARLOTTE (CURRER BELL). SHIRLEY. OXFORD BASIL BLACKWOOD, 1931.
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Description: TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, ORIGINAL ORANGE CLOTH, VERY GOOD. PRINTED BY THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
BRONTE CHARLOTTE (CURRER BELL). VILLETTE. OXFORD BASIL BLACKWELL, 1931.
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Description: TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, ORIGINAL ORANGE CLOTH, VERY GOOD. PRINTED AT THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Description: VG+ hardbacks, no dustwrappers. Very light edgewear, clean and unmarked. 351 pp: 362 pp 2 matched vols. 8vo publisher's original orange cloth. Rough cut page edges. With 6 tissue-guarded illustrations by Jack Hewer et al. The picture on the listing page is of the actual books for sale.
Seller: High Barn Books, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. Volume 1 - No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of foxing to a small number of pages, dusty lightly foxed page edges, well sunned spine, fore and lower edges untrimmed and no bumping to corners. Volume 2 - No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, minor bump to upper rear edge, dusty lightly foxed page edges, fore and lower edges untrimmed, well sunned spine and no bumping to corners. Total of 632pp. Large paper copy of Charlotte Bronte's Villette. Tissue-guarded illustrations. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches
Seller: Godley Books, Hyde, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. Volume 1 - No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of foxing to some pages, dusty page edges, fore and lower edges untrimmed and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with slight loss at head of very sunned spine and with.nicks and chips to upper and lower edges. Voluume 2 - No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with very tiny mark to front board, dusty page edges, fore and lower edges untrimmed and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with slight loss to very sunned spine ends and upper front edge and with.nicks and chips to upper and lower edges. Total of 713pp. Large paper copy of Charlotte Bronte's Shirley. Tissue-guarded illustrations. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches
Seller: Godley Books, Hyde, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black & white frontis. Page edges untrimmed as issued. 1000 copies only of this edition were published. Dustwrapper lacks a large piece from the top of front panel - most of author & title details - and a large piece from the base of the rear panel. Head & foot of dustwrapper spine chipped. An uncommon edition especially in a dustwrapper
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Price: US$184.79 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: "One thousand copies of this edition have been printed in England at the Shakespeare Head Press Saint Aldates Oxford" Frontispieces with captioned tissue guards, a few further plates with captioned tissue guards. Original dust jackets very good, with a little general wear and a little rubbing/scuffing to edges, a little chipped to head of spine of Vol. II, but missing lettering, a few small marks, now protected in clear archival sleeves. Orange cloth binding fine and bright with minimal wear having been protected by the dust jackets. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, appear unread. A fine set in very good dust jackets. Size: Large 8vo
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Price: US$207.38 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: "One thousand copies of this edition have been printed in England at the Shakespeare Head Press Saint Aldates Oxford" Frontispieces with captioned tissue guards, a few further plates with captioned tissue guards. Original dust jackets very good to fine, with minimal general wear and a little rubbing to edges, a few small marks, slightly scuffed to head/tail of spines, with minimal chip to vol II, now protected in a clear archival sleeve. Orange cloth binding fine and bright with minimal wear having been protected by the dust jackets. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, appear unread. A fine set in very good dust jackets. Size: Large 8vo
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Price: US$510.49 + shipping
Description: first edition thus, tall octavo pale green boards with black buckram spines and gilt labels, limited and numbered (#151 of the 500 copies of the American issue known as the Large Paper Edition). Original bindings all VG to VG+ (light wear to extremities, light soiling, labels worn - v sl bow and small stain to Wuthering Heights). A very presentable set of an outstanding edition of the Bronte ouvre. Other ancillary volumes were issued later, but these are the complete works of the novels as issued HEAVY SET
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$969.82 + shipping
Description: Gr.-8vo. Zus. über 4300 S., einige Bände m. zahlreichen Faksimiles, zus. 38 Tafeln. OLwd (Einbde stärker begriffen u. etwas berieben, Gebrauchsspuren, Rsign., Ex Libris a. d. Innendeckel, Innengelenke gelegentl. gelockert, Lochstempel u. Stempel a. d. T., gelegentl. etwas braunrandig oder -fleckig, bei einem Band Rücken unterlegt u. Vorsätze erneuert). Eins von 1000 Exemplaren.- Die maßgebliche Bronte-Ausgabe! Vorliegende Bände enthalten: 11 Bände "Novels" (Anne Bronte: Agnes Grey. Wildfell Hall.- Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre. The Professor. Shirley. Vilette.- Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights), 2 Bände "Poems" (Poems of Emily and Anne Bronte. Poems of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Bronte) sowie 2 Bände "Miscellaneous and unpublished writings of Charlotte and P. B. Bronte".- Es fehlen die 4 Bände "Life and Letters", die später erschienene 1-bändige Bibliographie sowie 1 Band Gondal Poems. Sprache: Englisch
Seller: Zentralantiquariat Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, Germany
Price: US$969.82 + shipping
Description: 11 volumes. Complete as issued. Additional volumes of correspondence etc, added later. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, green cloth, paper spine labels. A very good set over all, most volumes unread, partly uncut, number 389 of limited edition to 1000 copies. Illustrated by Jack Hewer with a total of 30 architectural and landscape views. Very slightly, (nearly invisible) rubbed. No foxing, no owners name nor marks, a very bright and tight set. Hervorragend erhalten.
Seller: Biblio Industries Alain Haezeleer, Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12vol.set: HBs quarter-bound; blue &blk.w/gilt; slight rub w/lt.wear; some lt.tan on edges; clean,tight pages, but many uncut; some wear on titles; 'Wuthering Heights' w/1x4"tear,tp.,last pg. otherwise, clean,tight pgs. "This edition, of which one thousand copies have been printed in England, is equally divided between Great Britain and The United States of America. The American issue is known as the Large Paper Edition. It is strictly limited to 500 copies, of which this is copy number 194" Includes: Emily Bronte: 'Wuthering Heights'. Charlotte Bronte: 'Jane Eyre' (2vols.), 'Shirley' (2vols.), & 'Villette' (2vols.). Anne Bronte: 'Agnes Grey' & 'TheTenent of Wildfell Hall' (2vols.) + 'Misc.& Unpublished Writings.' Vol.1 (1936) & Vol.2 (1938). excellent condition, but many uncut.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$3849.80 + shipping
Description: LIMITED EDITION (The novels limited to 1000 copies; the accompanying volumes limited to 750). 20 vols. 8vo (23 x 15.5cm). Original orange cloth, titles to spines gilt, top edges gilt others uncut, all with original cream dust jackets. Title-pages printed in red and black. Illustrations from engravings by Jack Hewer with captioned tissue guards to all novels. A few dust-jackets frayed at extremities with occasional minimal losses, some dust-soiling and spotting to edges, generally an excellent set. The novels occupy the first eleven volumes and were published in 1931. Eight further volumes were published between 1932 and 1938, consisting of The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships, and correspondence (four volumes); The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë (two volumes); and Poems (two volumes), plus the rare Gondal Poems (although no limitation stated). Rare to find complete and in the original dust-jackets.
Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: The Shakespeare Head Brontë A Fine Set in the Original Dust Jackets [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, [Charlotte, Emily, and Anne]. The Shakespeare Head Brontë. Oxford: Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1931. Limited to 1,000 copies. Eleven large octavo volumes (containing the Novels). [Together with:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, [Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.] The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence. In Four Volumes. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1932. Limited to 750 copies. Four large octavo volumes. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Charlotte, and Patrick Branwell. The Poems of Charlotte Brontë & Patrick Branwell Brontë. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1934. Limited to 500 copies. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Emily Jane and Anne. The Poems of Emily Jane Brontë and Anne Brontë. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1934. Limited to 500 copies. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Charlotte, and Patrick Branwell. The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë. In Two Volumes. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1936-1938]. Limited to 1,000 copies. Two large octavo volumes. Together, nineteen large octavo volumes (9 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 231 x 156 mm.). Photogravure frontispieces and plates. Original orange buckram lettered in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt, others uncut (only on The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, The Poems of Charlotte Brontë & Patrick Branwell Brontë, and The Poems of Emily Jane Brontë and Anne Brontë). Volume I of The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë has a previous owner's ink signature, dated 1945, on the front free endpaper. A fine set. In the original cream-colored printed dust jackets (some very minor shelfwear to jackets). This is the finest edition of the collected works of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Brontë. Franklin, The Private Presses, p. 236. Ransom, Selective Check Lists, p. 18, no. 73.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.