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Estimate$800 – $1,200
[Literature] Bell, Currer (Charlotte Bronte)
Shirley. A Tale
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. In three volumes. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. publisher's ads wanting in first volume. Contemporary three-quarter blue calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, boards, extremities, and joints rubbed; matching marbled edges and endpapers; scattered foxing to text; book-plate of Charles Conway on front paste-down of each volume. Parrish, p. 93; Sadleir 348; Smith 5; Symington, pp. 25-26
First edition of Charlotte Bronte's second novel published after Jane Eyre.
Collection of Katherine M. Reise, Oradell, New Jersey, Honorary American Representative of the Brontë Society, and Editor of the Brontë Newsletter
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