Shirley, A Tale (2 vols) by Bell, Currer (Charlotte Bronte) - 1849

Smith, Elder & Co, 1903. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1903. 534 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Hinges are cracked, with some exposed netting and a loose binding. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Oxford University Press, USA, 1986. Soft. Good. 12mo,71/4. Good. Slight edge wear, light marking and rubbing. Light foxing to extremeties. Mild page browning internally, otherwise clean and tight. 553pp.

London: W. Nicholson & Sons No date but Sunday School prize label inside front cover dated 'January, 1895.' Pp.452 plus 4 pages of publisher's adverts. Engraved frontis. and title page vignettes. Patterned endpapers. Blind-stamped dark green cloth, gilt with a little light wear to head and foot of spine and corners. Sunday School prize labels at back and front. Very good.

GB: Smith, Elder, 1857. Yellow cloth with title page reproduced on front cover and list of "Works on Indian Subjects" on rear cover. Adverts on front and rear endpapers. 534 pages plus six page catalogue. Fairly clean tight text block but the whole is DETACHING FROM COVERS WHICH ARE VERY WORN rendering list on rear cover nearly illegible. Photo on request.. New Edition. Hardback. Good/No DW.

London: Smith Elder & Co. Good. 1897. New Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 8vo Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine, some soiling on boards. Previous owner's book plate on f. paste down. Light foxing to page tips. 534 pages. 4 pages of advers. .

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., Waterloo Place, 1907. Later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 " X 5 . Spine notes author as C. Bronte. Title page identifies the author as Currer Bell. Charlotte's sisters, Emily and Anne went by the pen names Ellis and Acton Bell respectively. Book has dark green boards with title/author in small gilt title box at head of spine. Top edge gilt. Book is slightly cocked, extremities bumped and scuffed, Contents p. intact but torn. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co. Ltd. Includes 6 pp. of Smith Elder offerings. Bookseller's Inventory # 102371.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1856 572pp, bound in 3/4 leather, 5 raised bands on spine, all page edges marbled, marbled endpapers, hinges tight. Lacks leather spine label covers show edge loss to upper spine, corners worn, interior has moderate foxing. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Written by Charlotte Bronte under the pseudonym of Currer Bell.

Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun, 1849. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4.5". None. Published in the same year as the true first edition, this is the very scarce first Tauchnitz edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel. The very scarce two volume first Tauchnitz Edition of this novel by Charlotte Bronte, marking the first publication of these novels in continental Europe.Published in the same year as the first edition.With Bronte's pseudonym, 'Currer Bell', to the title pages.Smith, pages 131-133. Lacking the half title to each volume. Also lacking the blank that should appear between each half title and title page, and the blank which should appear following each title page. Retaining colophon leaf to the rear of volume II.Bronte's social novel is set in Yorkshire in 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. It is set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz founded his Leipzig… Read More

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1849. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition. Three volumes bound in somewhat contemporary three-quarter vellum over cloth. Very Good with former owner bookplates to front pastedowns and bookseller tickets to rear pastedowns, foxing, several pages repaired with tape. Staining to covers of volume III, with several preliminary and terminal pages stained at the edges as well.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1849. First edition. Vellum. pp. 303; 308; 320. Bound without half-titles, and Vol. I without the ads; but including the ads at the end of Vol. III. 8vo. 1/2 vellum over waxed-paper-covered boards; bound by Holder & Son, Kirkdale, Sydenham, with label to front pastedowns. Gilt lettering to spines. Bookplate to front pastedowns, some spotting (wax drips, fingerprints, and the like, occasionally and throughout), creases from dog earing, a few pencil marks, expected age-toning. The contents show heavier use than the bindings, suggesting to me that the books were voraciously read at perhaps indiscriminate times (like breakfast), and the story loved well enough to deserve a lovely (re-)binding, ca. 1900. With bookseller's catalogue description of a like set, taped to front pastedown of Vol. I.