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Estimate$500 – $800
Bell, Currer, Ellis, and Acton (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte)
Poems
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848. First American edition. 12mo. iv, (13)-176 pp.; without the 24 pp. ads at rear, only found in a few copies. Publisher's pale green paper-covered boards, spine perished, boards lightly soiled; all edges trimmed; contemporary ownership signature in pencil on front paste-down and on title-page; small crease to bottom corners of pp. 137-146. Smith 1, pp. 14-15
First American edition, published on August 12, 1848, and preceding the second English issue.
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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