Author: BRONTĖ, CHARLOTTE Title: Shirley (Everyman's Library #288)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1939. Hardcover. A 1939 reprint edition of the 1908 issuance. An ex-library copy of the second published novel by Charlotte Brontė. "Shirley," which followed her "Jane Eyre," first appeared in 1849 under the author's Currer Bell pseudonym. The story is set in Yorkshire amidst labor unrest in the textile industry following the Napoleonic Wars. With an introduction by May Sinclair. Entry 288 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 moderate age-toning to leaves. Good-only jacket with small chips and a few tears, darkened spine, else mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Ex-Library; 16mo (6 - 7 in. tall); xvi, 511, 16 (ads) pages. Very Good- in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Everyman's Library Editions
Price: US$ 16.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88783