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Jane Eyre
by Bronte, Charlotte
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About This Item
World Publishing Company, 1946. hardcover. Bronte, Charlotte : Jane Eyre. Cleveland : World Publishing Company, 1946. Illustrations by Nell Booker. First printing of this edition (part of the World Rainbow Classics series) by this publisher. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.5"/22cm h. Quarterbound in publisher's navy blue cloth spine, variegated color pattern to boards; gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Lacking dust-jacket. Gray end papers with blue line drawing illus. 504 numbered pp, [505-6] blank, [507] colophon, [508-10] blank; additionally, color plates (approx four in number) are not paginated. Intro (by series editor May Lamberton Becker), text. Numerous b&w line drawings illus the text, and several color. Condition notes: gilt ink to spine nearly all gone; color to boards well-retained; spine ends rolled, corners bumped; spine slight loose but sound; light toning to edges. Interior generally somewhat tanned; tasteful 1946 gift inscription and former owner's name to front flyleaf; text shows very occasional (less than half dozen observed) and discreet vertical marginal lines marking a passage. Solid early postwar printing. We personally inspect every book we offer.
Synopsis
Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre, an Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell". Orphaned as a child, Jane felt like an outcast during her childhood. She was sent by her cruel aunt to a boarding school where she was met with further torment. After the devastating loss of a friend, she finds herself enrolled under a new headmaster at the Lowood School and finds her life drastically changed. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard. But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall…
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- Furrowed Brow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230605003
- Title
- Jane Eyre
- Author
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- World Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1946
- Weight
- 1.56 lbs
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Furrowed Brow Books was established in 2020. The bookstore's owner, Paul Purman, grew up in an old farmhouse full of books. Paul had been providing online booksales since 2008 through several popular online sales venues. In 2021 Paul was accepted as a member of the Independent Online Booksellers' Association (IOBA), and graduated from the annual Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS-Minnesota).
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Furrowed Brow Books' goal is to offer an eclectic selection, while providing specialty offerings in Eastern Orthodoxy and Byzantine civilization, theology, Christian mysticism, science fiction/fantasy (Inklings emphasis), and military history.
We're happy to discuss making an offer on a collection in one of our specialty areas.
Dealer discount of 20%; we simply ask that you reciprocate with a discount of 20%.
Thanks for stopping by!
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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