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Le professeur
by BELL, Currer [i.e. BRONTË, Charlotte]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1858. [4], 299, [1], 8pp. With a half-title and four terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's printed powder-blue wrappers. A trifle rubbed and browned, spine sunned. Light marginal dampstaining to initial two gatherings, scattered spotting. An early issue of the first edition in French of Charlotte Brontë's first completed novel, The Professor (1857). Initially submitted to publishers along with the efforts of her sisters, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, and then independently, the book was rejected by numerous publishing houses, it was eventually published posthumously in 1857, with the approval of Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls, who edited the text. This is evidently a later issue as it includes on the lower wrapper advertisements for titles published after 1858, for example Gaskell's Autour du Sofa (1859). . First edition in French, early issue. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ24423
- Title
- Le professeur
- Author
- BELL, Currer [i.e. BRONTË, Charlotte]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition in French, early issue
- Publisher
- Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie.
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1858
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- Literature
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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