Search Results: the life of charlotte bronte by ec gaskell

Appleton, 1857-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Fading to spine, boards, foxing throughout.

New York: Appleton, 1857. Hardcover. Good. Good, Volume One Only, book has fraying of spine, edges and corners of cover, bend in cover corners, staining of front and back cover, writing on front endpaper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: D. Appleton, 1900. Blank lower corner of title page with short tears.. Original Cloth. Very Good.

D. Appleton & Co, 1857. Hardcover. Good. Good set of two hardcovers, no DJs. Previous owner's name and bookplate on end papers, pages are otherwise unmarked. Text is foxed. Binding is tight. Advertising end paper on Volume 1 is coming detached. Covers are soiled and spines are sunned.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

London: Downey & Co, 1901. 1st Edition thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 9800 shelf. Thick volume. Gold-stamped moss green covers, gilt top edge. Homemade bkplate verso front cover, FEP neatly removed, some foxing. Small paper ghosts pg 259-266. No names, but some neatly penciled underlines. Frontispiece: portrait of Bronte, w/ tissue guard. Reprinted from the 1st edition, edited and with introduction & notes by Temple Scott & B.W. Willett. Solid.

New York: Appleton, 1858 Later printing, 1858. Two volumes bound in one; Vol. 1 8vo; pp. viii, 285; port. frontis., facsimile of ms page; Vol 2 8vo; pp. viii, 269, 8 [pub. ads]; engraved frontis. of Haworth. Originally published in 1857. Owner's penciled name; Some foxing to prelims. otherwise a very clean and bright copy, very good, tightly bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine..

New York, NY: Appleton & Co, 1858. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Appleton & Co, New York, NY 1858. 285 pages. Brown blindstamped cloth, gold spine decor. Portrait of Emily Bronte on frontispiece. 285 pages + 2 pages of publishers ads. Nice Firm copy ! Cloth frayed on top and bottom of spine. Foxing on preliminary and ending pages. Previous owner name. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Branwell Bronte's ruin (256, 264) being caused by a married woman in London, was omitted from later editions. Biography Books on Books::Books on Authors History::Britain 6700 6700

D. Appleton, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. First U.S. edition. Small 8vo, contemporary 3/4 calf on marbled paper-covered boards, raised bands, black spine labels, titles and devices in gilt, marbled endsheets. Leather a bit scuffed, corners and spine ends rubbed, binding tight and square, front hinge starting. The ads have been removed, both frontispieces are present with their tissue guards.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. bound in one. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-285, [1], [3], 2-269, [1], [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and gilt rules on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece. A pleasing later printing of Gaskell's acclaimed biography. Two marks of private ownership on the front preliminaries, a newspaper clipping pasted on the rear pastedown, the front gutter slightly strained but holding strong.

HBDJ, 1933, 1st edition THUS, EARLY ISSUE REPRINT, VG/GOOD, , top edge coloured, plastic removable cover over SOILED dust jacket, which has a couple of closed tears but is complete, PINK Embossed cloth with Gold gilt design & Title SPINE CVR,BACK DJ OVER 970 VOLS THRU ZOLA, DJ SPINE TEARS WEAR, Soil

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857. 1st American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 2 volume set complete as issued. 2 volumes in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, mild soiling to covers, light fading to spines, bookplates to inner boards, some pencil writing to endpapers else a bright and solid set. SBB 1/21

Smith Elder & Co, 1857. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. The Life of Charlotte Bronte Second Edition Bound By Zaehnsdorf 1857. Stunning copy bound by Zaehnsdorf. Original cloth spine preserved in each volume. Near fine/fine condition. The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The first edition was published in 1857 by Smith, Elder & Co. A major source was the hundreds of letters sent by Brontë to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey. Gaskell had to deal with rather sensitive issues, toning down some of her material: in the case of her description of the Clergy Daughters' School, attended by Charlotte and her sisters, this was to avoid legal action from the Rev. William Carus Wilson, the founder of the school. The published text does not go so far as to blame him for the deaths of two Brontë sisters, but even so the Carus Wilson family published a rebuttal with the title "A refutation of the statements in 'The life of… Read More

Edinburgh: John Grant, 31 George IV Bridge, 1924. Twelve vols. 8vo. xi, [5], 405, [1]; [6], 371, [1]; xvii, [3], 499, [1]; xi, [5], 378; [6], 458; [6], 471, [1]; xi, [5], 421, [1]; [6], 406; [4], 353, [1]; [4], 347, [1]; [4], 301, [1]; xviii, [2], 525, [1] pp. Half-titles & titles in red & black, all vols. w/ frontisp. (some sepia-tinted photogravures), plates. Uniformly bound in publisher’s green linen, decorated gilt spines & lettering (occasional shelfwear, slight rubbing, very slight bumping to some corners), w/ original d.j.’s, printed spine art to match the bindings (some minor chipping heads & feet of some spines, occasional closed tears, thumbing, dustsoiling), still a NF/VG set, partially uncut & unopened. An excellent Thornton Edition of the Bronte sisters’ opus of gothic novels, edited by Temple Scott, featuring the detailed biography of Charlotte Bronte by Gaskell, uncommon with all volumes in original dustjackets. Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” and Emily’s “Wuthering… Read More