London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. First edition. Two volumes, bound without ads but with half-title pages in contemporary tan calf over marbled boards, with green and red gilt-stamped title labels to spines, all edges marbled. Bindings lightly rubbed at extremities. Pages toned, foxed at preliminary and terminal leaves. Bookplates..... More
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817. Third edition. Two volumes, bound in mid-twentieth century half brown calf; bound without half-titles and terminal blank in Volume 1, as is often the case. Contents foxed throughout. Repaired L-shape tear to page 7 of Volume I; fraying to fore edge margin of page..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. First British edition. Two volumes, finely bound in blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Spines sunned, slight lean to Volume I. Contents toned, sporadically foxed, lightly stained and corner-creased. The two first impressions are indistinguishable, lacking any imprint to distinguish them apart. The first was..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1853. First edition, first printing. Finely bound by [William Thomas Jennings] Worsfold, in late 19th or early 20th-century half leather over marbled boards, with all edges gilt. The former copy of author Edmund William Gosse with his bookplate to the front free endpaper; bookplate of Scottish..... More
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1895. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good, with uneven sunning and soiling to cloth. Page edges dust-soiled. Hinges sporadically exposed throughout, yet binding is stable. Pages occasionally soiled or edge-chipped. A romance novel written by the author..... More
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1862. First English translation of Ivan Turgenev's story "Mumu" (here called "The Dumb Door Porter") , included at the end of a volume that begins with the novel Two Prima Donnas by another author. viii, 246, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's pebbled green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First American edition. 278, [2, ads], 8 pp. Publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering. A Very Good copy with rubbed spine lettering, cloth worn at head and foot with small tear at head, slight soiling to spine, front hinge over-opened, a few reading smudges. A classic..... More
Harper & Brothers, 1858. Early American Edition, (the first American edition was published in 1850). Bound in three-quarter maroon leather over marbled boards, all edges marbled. Very Good. Binding lightly rubbed, leather darkened, scratch to rear cover. Pages toned and lightly foxed. A nice copy in a charming binding. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First American Edition. Bound in three-quarter maroon leather over marbled boards, all edges marbled. Very Good. Binding lightly rubbed, leather darkened. Pages toned and lightly foxed. The first novel written by Charlotte Bronte, though it remained unpublished until after her death. More