Author: BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
Title: The Professor (Everyman's Library #417)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1939. Hardcover. Ex-library. A 1939 reprint of the 1921 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition of Charlotte Brontë's novel, written before her "Jane Eyre," but not published until 1857, after her death. The author draws on her experiences as a student and teacher at a Brussels school. Includes translations of French-language terms at rear of volume. With an introduction by May Sinclair. Entry 417 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In EL binding style 3 with full carmine cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. In dust jacket with Ravilious 'knot' to front panel. --- Evidence of former ownership by a lending library limited to front free endpaper sticker & inked notation, and slip pasted to rear paste-down. The book is clean and tightly-bound but with slight spine lean. Fair-only, brittle jacket with a large missing piece at tail of spine, other small tears and chips, with age-toning; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Ex-Library; 16mo (6 - 7 in. tall); xii, 244, 16 (ads) pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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