Bronte anne bell acton (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, brown cloth lettered gilt to the spine, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed, no jacket, a tightly bound copy with an unmarked text, scattered minor foxing, b&w plates, 220pp.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. Published in 1860, and stated new edition, this is the fourth edition of these two classic novels by Emily Bronte & Anne Bronte. Bound in an old half leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, marbled page edges and endpapers. Titled and decorated in gilt to the spine, 446 pages. CONDITION The binding has some general rubbing wear and light marks, mild wear to the leather at head of spine else binding is in good solid condition. internally some foxing to endpapers and opening and closing text page. There is a small mark to the opening page of Wuthering Heights (pictured) else contents in good condition.…

Hard Cover. A New Edition. Octavo, pp. 390, [10]. Frontispiece and vignette to title page. Maroon cloth with black embossing to spine and boards, and with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Some rubbing to the extremities and small scuffs to the cloth. Upper hinge split but holding. Some light scattered foxing to the text-block edges and end-papers. Anne Bronte's second and final novel, published originally under her pseudonym Acton Bell. The epistolary tale was considered shocking upon publication, with themes of alcoholism and domestic violence, and the flight of heroine Helen from her abusive husband along with their child was at the time against the law. The novel is widely regarded as one of the earliest examples of feminist writing, with the character challenging societal norms of the period.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in half bound leather, cloth boards with 5 raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 502pp. B/w author portrait frontispiece, b/w photographic plates, facsimile of the title page of the first edition dated 1853 to p.xxv. Gold gilt top page edges, marbled endpapers. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light foxing to some pages. (26/1).…

First Edition. [Classic Literature] VINTAGE EDITION, reissue. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxvi; 502. With eight black and white illustrated plates, including a portrait of the author, and a facsimile of the title page to the first edition. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and a gilt monogram to upper. With the rare typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. A large black ink ownership to fly-leaf, dated 1926. A black and white photograph of Anne's grave cut into verso of the fly-leaf. Toning to edges, otherwise internally clean. Jacket shows moderate general wear and toning, with heavy toning and a large loss to spine, repaired with brown paper. Rare in the jacket. Very good. An odd volume from the seven-volume Haworth Edition of the works of the Bronte Sisters, originally published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1900.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Hardcover. The Temple Edition. Green leather covers are very worn and loose Spine very worn . Gilt emblem to cover Top text block edges gilt. 279 pages.

11 volumes. Complete as issued. Additional volumes of correspondence etc, added later. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, green cloth, paper spine labels. A very good set over all, most volumes unread, partly uncut, number 389 of limited edition to 1000 copies. Illustrated by Jack Hewer with a total of 30 architectural and landscape views. Very slightly, (nearly invisible) rubbed. No foxing, no owners name nor marks, a very bright and tight set. Hervorragend erhalten.…

8vo. 390, (2) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, old one line inscription to the verso of the title page. Covers lightly worn with slight loss to the gilt lettering, neatly recased, browning to the endpapers, else very good. A bibliographically curious edition published in the "Home Instructor Library" by a London department store which was founded in 1860. A single page catalogue of the books in the library mentions this and several other works by the Brontës but OCLC records only one title, a copy of 'Shirley' in the University of Virginia Library.…

First "cheap" edition of both novels, the third British edition overall, issued to be more readily available than either the first or second editions of 1847 and 1850, respectively. The Cheap edition features Charlotte's Brontë's memoirs of her sisters and her preface to Wuthering Heights, which first appeared in the Uniform edition (1850). Octavo. With 4 pp. ads at end. Original orange cloth lettered and decorated in black, publisher's ads printed on endpapers. Front free endpaper supplied. Ownership inscription of one Anna M. Shapter, dated 1858, on title page; that of Mary E. Dampier, dated 1892, on contents page. Spine toned and lightly rubbed, a little bubbling to cloth, occasional spot to contents. A very good copy.…

Zustand: Very Good. First American Edtion. First American Edition, first printing. In contemporary half leather binding over marbled boards. Very Good with rubbing to binding, darkening to spine. Offsetting to preliminary and terminal pages from binder's glue, pernicious foxing throughout. Shallow chipping to fore edge of page 177/178. The second and final novel by Anne Bronte, published under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Anne was the youngest of the Bronte sisters; she died at the age of 29 one year after the publication of this book.…

First edition. Three volumes. 12mo. 190x110mm. pp. [4], 358; [2], 366; [2], 342. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere (for Henry Sotheran) in modern green half morocco, boards covered in green linen. Spine lettered in gilt, five raised bands with gilt wavy line, compartments decorated with a single gilt border. Marbled endpapers. A neat, attractive binding in excellent condition. Internally very good with only slight foxing in places. Repair to half title in volume I. Two leaves (Q11 of volume I and D2 of volume III) have been expertly repaired and there is a closed tear to the foot of D9 of volume III not affecting the text. Volume 1 lacking final leaf with publisher's advertisements. A very good copy of the scarce first edition of Anne Brontë's only separately published novel. 500 copies were printed but no more than 300 were issued as the first edition. The book sold well and the remaining copies were issued a few months later, with a new title page and a (now celebrated) preface by Anne, as the second edition. Initially regarded by some critics (not least her sister Charlotte who thought the subject matter a "mistake") as "coarse" and "revolting" but now seen as a prescient and innovative in its realistic handling of subjects such as alcoholism, marital disarray and mental collapse that nineteenth century writers tended to address obliquely, if at all. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is regarded as one of the first feminist novels in its sympathetic treatment of a woman asserting her freedom in the face of male abuse. But it is a multi-layered, complex book as we can see from Charlotte Brontë's harsh but perceptive view that the novel was written "under a strange conscientious, half-ascetic notion of accomplishing a painful penance and a severe duty. Blameless in deed and almost in thought - there was from her [Anne's] very childhood a tinge of religious melancholy in her mind". …

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind with spine decorated in gilt. Very Good with cloth lightly soiled and worn at corners and spine ends. Inexpert bookplate removal to front paste down. Small stain to top corner of several early leaves and rear paste down. Pages are foxed, browned and with occasional creasing throughout. A lovely copy, rare in the original publisher's cloth. The second and final novel by the youngest of the Bronte sisters, published under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Anne died at the age of 29, a year after its publication. It was a commercial success compared to her first novel, Agnes Grey, that debuted in "the year of revolutions," 1848. Recent critics have appreciated the novel's autobiographical realism and overtly-political feminism-- specifically its defense of single motherhood and dramatization of a woman trapped in an abusive marriage with no legal way to secure a divorce. It is widely understood to be a critique of the idealized Victorian woman in her sisters' much more popular Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.…