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Lot 87

Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020 7:00AM ET
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[Literature] Bronte, The Sisters The Shakespeare Head Bronte

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company/Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1931. In 11 volumes. #292/500 numbered copies (from a total edition of 1,000). Most volumes Illustrated with black and white plates. Original forest green cloth, unevenly faded, spotting to front board of Volume V, printed paper labels to spines; all edges untrimmed; split in gutter of eighth volume (Wuthering Heights), exposing binding between half-title and frontispiece; largely unopened, a few crudely opened; top corner of fore-edge of text of Volume V bumped. Prospectus: "Genius Triumphant The Bronte Sisters" laid in to first volume.

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