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John Murray, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. Reprint. 594 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Volume III. Contains black and white plates throughout. Ex-libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Marks overall. Dents to edges. Textblock is shaky.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Good. . Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages with minor scattered foxing.

Smith, Elder & Co, 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. The Haworth Edition. 594 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Part of the series The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters Vol III: Villette. Gilt top text block edge. Contains black and white illustrated and photographic plates. Moderate foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pages are rough cut. Both hinges cracked causing boards to be slightly loose. However binding throughout remains firm. Occasional thumb-marking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Notable faded staining and other marks to boards, causing discolouration to boards. Small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends. Book is bowed and forward leaning.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. . Half-leather cover with marbled boards, gilt decoration, and raised bands shows minor wear, rubbing, edgewear, and foxing. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapapers, bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages are tanned and clean.

Nabu Press, 2012-01-23. Paperback. Good.

Smith, Elder & Co, 1885. Book. Very Good+. Full-Leather. In brown leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. 506 pages. New endpapers. Chip to page 61 which effects text. .

John Murray, 1920. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1920. No Edition Remarks. 555 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Introduction written by Mrs Humphrey Ward. Volume I. Moderate crinkling to paper at gutter. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed with visible markings throughout. Binding remains firm. Pen and pencil inscription and markings to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Moderate crushing and fraying to spine ends and corners. Minor loss to spine. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a heavy forward lean.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1891. Book. Good. Hardcover. With 5 illustrations. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine. Corners scuffed, inner joints papers chipped, a little foxing, owner's signature on recto of frontispiece, good..

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1887. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. With 8 illustrations. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine. Corners scuffed, tiny nicks at head of spine, a couple of page corners creased, very good..

Smith Elder & Co. HARDCOVER. Very Good/None. We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! Hawthorn Edition. The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters. Three Volume set containing Wildfell Hall, The Professor & Villette Books published in 1899 & 1900. No jackets as issued. Covers are in Very Good + condition. Very minor wear to spine ends and edges of covers. The books themselves is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. Wildfell Hall has gift inscription top of title page. The Professor has gift inscription on half title page.

Smith, Elder And Co.,, 1900. Early Edition. Hardcover, With Gilt CB and Gilt Lettering to Spine. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her work is of interest to social historians as well as readers of literature.Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. Front few pages Foxing. Rough cut edges Size: Octavo . Category: Biography & Autobiography; .

Volume I contains the complete Jane Eyre stroy, Charlotte Bronte's Masterpiece. Frontis illus. "Lowood" (protected by tissue guard) opposite title page with vignette illus. of Gateshead Hall, followed by printed title page. Both title pages dated 1895. Complete with all 5 illustrations listed ( 4 Full-Page Plates and the Vignette ). Green cloth cover with Black ground to embossed title and Black decoration on front. Bright gilt Lettering and horizontal divisions on spine. Black endpapers. Slight edge wear and a little fraying to cloth at spine ends and tips of fore corners. Hinges sound. Text block binding strained. No inscriptions.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, [c. 1900]. The set is in very good condition.. Binding: Green cloth boards with Charlotte Bronte’s signature in gilt on top, gilt title and art deco motif to spine. , Notes: Although the title says “The Complete Works”, the following volumes contain only “Wuthering Heights”, “Agnes Grey”, “The Professor”, “Emma”, poetry by all three sisters, and the “Life of Charlotte Bronte”., Size: 8vo, Illustration: Complete with 18 photographic prints. , Volume: Two Volumes, Pages: P. [First Volume] xv, 269, 168 pp.; [Second Volume] vi, 371, 110 pp., Category: Book Literature

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1888. Hardcover, 7-volume complete set, without dust jackets. Each book is bound in half green cloth with marbled paper sides, uncut page blocks, frontispiece and previous owner's name and date (1888-89) penned to FEP. Board edges are worn, page blocks are tanned. "Villette" has a small tear to front board paper and taped repair to hinge at rear paste down. "Shirley" has hinge breaks at front and rear pastedowns. "Wuthering Heights" has a bump and crack to rear board lower leading corner. All have light foxing throughout. Contents are clean and unmarked. More photos available upon request. AD. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Used.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1892-6. 8vo. 7 volume set. Smart green cloth with binding with dulled gilt top edge. Slight bumping to the spine ends and boards generally clean with minor marks, particularly to Wuthering Heights. Minor spotting to the extremities and internally clean with contemporary ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Bindings firm. Features Mrs Gaskell's life of Charlotte Bronte. . Very Good. Cloth. New Edition. 1896.

Smith Elder. London. 1884-1885. 7 volumes.. Each volume with steel engraved frontispiece, title vignette and 3 plates [v.7 has 6 plates]. In uniform black half morocco, marbled boards and end-papers, some joints repaired, some foxing at the ends and of some plates and the adjacent leaves, v.1 and v.7 have damp-marking in the top inner corner of the frontispiece, title and a few succeeding leaves, fading to the interior. *Volume 7 is GASKELL's Life of Charlotte Bronte. A scarce set.

John Murray, 1926-1933. 6 vols (lacks Vol 7 The Life of Charlotte Bronte): Jane Eyre (reprint 1932), Shirley (reprint 1933), Villette (reprint 1932), The Professor & Poems (reprint 1926), Wuthering Heights & Agnes Grey (reprint 1931), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (reprint 1926). 8vo (7 x 4½ ins). Original gilt decorated blind-ruled brown cloth, top edges brown (some light spots on boards - otherwise a bright VG set), no dustwrappers. Pp. various (school prize plate on front paste-down of vol I and previous owner's neat 1934 inscription on front free endpapers of vols II-VI).

Smith, Elder & Co.. Very Good. 1900-6. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require additional postage for international shipping.; Complete seven volume set; Vo.I Jane Eyre [1906], vol.II Shirley [1905], vol.III Villette [1905], vol.IV The Professor [1905], vol.V Wuthering Heights [1904], vol.VI The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [1900], vol.VII The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs. Gaskell [1905]; All bound in original publisher's green cloth, mild edge-wear, gilt lettering bright; Pages age-toned, top gilt edges bright w/ slight scratching, mild foxing throughout text blocks [most notable on edges/endpapers], vol.VI ffep torn, all plates present in each volume [B&W], frontispiece loose in vol.III, original stamped frontispieces in vols.III, V, VI and VII, publisher's directory in rear of each volume; Bindings tight for majority, a touch strained in vol.III. ; The Hawthorn Editions; 5.5 x 8.25"; ~4,100 pages .

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1900-6. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". Various. A seven volume set of 'The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters' illustrated throughout, with introduction and notes by Mrs Humphry Ward and Clement K. Shorter With eleven illustrations each in Volumes I-V, eight in Volume VI and seventeen in Volume VII. The Brontë sisters, Charlotte (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855), Emily (July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) and Anne (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849), were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature. The sisters grew up in Haworth, near Keighley in West Yorkshire (the region has come to be known as Brontë Country), surviving their mother and two elder sisters into adulthood. Charlotte and Emily had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense, in 1846 as poets under the… Read More

London: John Murray, 1920-1926. The Haworth edition of the works of the sisters Bronte. Octavo, 7 volumes bound in full crushed levant scarlet morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles stamp-signed by Riviere & Son, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated. In near fine condition. A stunning set. The Brontes were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Thornton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for their passion and originality. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first… Read More