Search Results: villette by currer bell charlotte

Smith, Elder, & Co., 1910. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1910. New Edition. 478 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Light chipping, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Light cracking to gutters; moderate looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Richard Edward King, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 509 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Book has been rebound with original cloth. New endpapers added. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding is shaky, title page detached but still present. Moderate tanning and light foxing to pages throughout. Water staining and tears to some pages, repaired with tape to last few pages, text remains readable. Previous owner's inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

GB: Matthews & Brooke (Bradford)/Walter Scott, 1900. Perhaps c1900. This is the text of the Walter Scott edition of 509 pages plus 14 page catalogue but with the CANCEL TITLE PAGE of Matthews & Brooke (Bradford). Bound in cloth (with mock half Book is in good plus condition with very noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . Hardback. G+/No DW.

Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd, About 1880. Hardcover. Fair. Approx date - 578 pp Beige boards. No d/j The story of Lucy Snowe, who, after a family disaster, travels to France to find a new life becoming a teacher at a girl's
A reading copy only as cloth to length of spine strip and ends is fraying/splitting

GB: Matthews & Brooke (Bradford)/Walter Scott Perhaps c1900. This is the text of the Walter Scott edition of 509 pages plus 14 page catalogue but with the CANCEL TITLE PAGE of Matthews & Brooke (Bradford). Bound in cloth (with mock half leather design) in burgundy and pink. Top edge gold. Fairly clean tight book but cocked. . Hardback. VG-/No DW.

London, Walter Scott, nd ( c 1900?);. Hardback. Poor/ No dj. 509pp with 14pp Publishers Catalogue. Lacks ffep, internal hinges cracked. Green covers with gilt line decoration & title on spine. Small split at top edge. .

Smith, Elder, 1890-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. 1899 edition smith elder with introduction by mrs humphry ward

Smith, Elder & Co, 1891-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Not ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition. 1880 version of this edition.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co. New York: Crowell, no publication date, but c. 1900. 8vo. Cloth binding, 448 pp. Frontispiece portrait of M. Heger, protective tissue. 10 additional black and white plates. Paper spine label. Rubbing along board edges. No writing inside. Hinges sound. Very good.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated. 8vo.

OXFORD, BASIL BLACKWELL, 1931. TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, ORIGINAL ORANGE CLOTH, VERY GOOD. PRINTED AT THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1931. 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.. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/No Jacket. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.

London, Smith Elder, 1857.. Octavo, iv+478+vi pages, original cloth, a bit worn, faded on the spine and darkened on the foredge, hinges shaken and the front one is tape-repaired, back outside joint is split along spine, old bookplate on front pastedown, overall a good copy. Effectively the third edition, or second edition in one vol. The text block is in fine fettle, so this would be a good candidate for a nice rebind

London: Smith, Elder, 1853. Book. Good. Brown Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Volume 2 of the three volume set. Lacks the half-title. Original boards, new spines and endpapers. .

London: Smith, Elder, 1875. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine and cover decorated in black, rear cover stamped in blind. Front inner hinge is weak but holding well. Moderate wear at extremities. Light wear at head and heal of spine.. An earlly edition, originally published by Smith. Elder in 1853. Virginia Woolf felt this novel was superior to Jane Eyre.

Hardcover Condition: Very Good. 4 volumes by Harper & Brothers. Published in 1874. Illustrated with frontispiece and tissue guards. Green cloth. Spine lean to each volume. Bindings are tight and secure. Contemporary ownership inscription from 1874 on flyleaf. Some rubbing and wear to the tips and edges. Mild spotting to the hardcover. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has some mild moisture staining to title page, frontispiece, flyleaves, and few other pages. Light, scattered spots on some pages in all four volumes. Clean interior pages overall.

basil blackwell & houghton mifflin 1931. 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

USA: Harper and Brothers, 1853. First Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st US Edition 1853. First American edition of Villette under the Charlotte Bronte pseudonym Currer Bell.. It has been sympathetically and professionally bound up in half leather and hand marbled paper covered boards. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good with lightly age toned pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 14040 ###016288

New York:: Harper & Brothers, Publishers,, 1853.. First American edition.. publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered at the spine.. Spine very slightly faded with some light use at the head and foot; several tiny holes to joints; light foxing; but a very attractive copy of a scarce book.. 12mo,.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First American edition. Very Good. With original front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Front wrapper with a few short tears. Spine worn, with most of backstrip perished. Plain rear wrapper added later. Octavo (226 x 142 mm.). A textually complete copy, including 4 leaves of advertisements at the rear. Text in double columns, collating: 184, [4 leaves ads]. A bit of foxing, otherwise a Very Good copy. Smith claims no priority between this edition and the one in cloth, but the differing page-counts suggest priority exists (the type was completely reset and the clothbound copy has over 500 pages); either way the wrapper edition is much scarcer. Housed in a custom paper-covered slipcase. "Charlotte Bronte's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence. Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country.… Read More

London: Smith Elder & Co, 1853. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary blind stamped half calf with gilt stamped compartments and five raised bands; red and brown morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Complete in three volumes with 12-pages of adverts at rear dated January, 1853. Near Fine with rubbing to edges and boards, dust soiling. Armorial bookplates of Robert Smith on front pastedowns. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown of volume I. Light toning to contents with sporadic foxing. A beautiful set of this classic Victorian triple decker.