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Villette ( Everyman's Library No. 351 ) Full Leather De Luxe Edition
by Bronte, Charlotte
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. ;. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1928. Reprint. Hardcover. Bound in original maroon full textured leather boards. Decorative bright gilt lettering to spine, and bright gilt logo to the bottom front of the front cover. Top edge Gilt. Remaining page fore-edges gently and lightly 'toned/dusty' with age. With an introduction by May Sinclair. 12mo. (xviii) + 462pp. Green/cream pictorial (Everyman) endpapers. A gift note in old ink, dated 1932, on the reverse of the front free endpaper. A Lovely ornamental b/w title-page/frontispiece designed by Reginald Knowles, then working for Dents, in the "Arts and Crafts" style of William Morris. In very good condition overall. Binding is firm and square. Pages are clean and unmarked. With an 11 pp Appendix at the end = "Translation of French Phrases" in the book. 1928 Reprint of the 1906 Dent Everyman Edition - but which was reset in 1923. Quite scarce in this leather edition. See Images. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
Synopsis
"I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette ..." —George Eliot With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls’ boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school’s English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë’s last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances. Villette draws on Brontë’s own unhappy experience as a governess in Brussels New Introduction examines the novel's social and historical context and argues for its importance as an exploration of imperialism Includes chronology, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes
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- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119982
- Title
- Villette ( Everyman's Library No. 351 ) Full Leather De Luxe Edition
- Author
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. ;
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Villette ( Everyman's Library No. 351 ), Charlotte Bronte, Full Leather De Luxe Edition, A Lovely Ornamental B/w Title-page/frontispiece Designed By Reginald , Knowles, Then Working For Dents, In The "arts And Crafts" Style Of William , Morr
- Bookseller catalogs
- Womens Interests; Fiction; Victorian Fiction; Eng Lit, Lit Crit & Shakespeare;
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Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Biblio member since 2006
Carmarthen
About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Retired Member of the P.B.F.A, and the WBA. In business for 42+ years to date, mainly working from home nowadays, and formerly exhibiting at Major London Book Fairs, and some Provincial ones within reach of the M4! View by Appointment ONLY Please, as I may be unavailable on the day you call. Happy to see customers but they have to be able to squeeze through the book aisles/piles! Unfortunately no wheelchair access. Currently only working part-time.
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Good+
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- Reprint
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- Gilt
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