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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
by Gaskell, E[lizabeth] C[leghorn]
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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DORCHESTER, Dorset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hardback. Fair. Appleton and Company, New York, 1857, first US edition; 2 vols, 12mo, pp viii, 285 and viii, 269; pp 12 (but paginated 14) catalogue of Appleton publications divided between the two volumes at the end; original brown cloth gilt, lilac end papers, recased with later blue free end paper at the front on vol I; engraved frontispiece of Bronte to volume I and of Haworth church and parsonage to volume II; spines dulled and frayed at the edges and ends, internally slightly browned at the extreme edges of the pages but otherwise clean; back hinge of volume 1 a little weak but binding generally tight and firm; ownership inscription dated 1858 in each volume; despite the flaws described this is a still a reasonable copy of the first US edition, published shortly after the book appeared in the UK.
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- Bookseller
- Chesil Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000402
- Title
- The Life of Charlotte Brontë
- Author
- Gaskell, E[lizabeth] C[leghorn]
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1.73 lbs
- Keywords
- Haworth; Bronte Literary, Women, Letters
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Chesil Books
Biblio member since 2017
DORCHESTER, Dorset
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- 12mo
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- Fair
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