CHARLOTTE BRONTE (Currer Bell) VILLETTE, 1853 FIRST ED. Start Price USD 5,500.00 Current Price USD 5,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 17, 2008 End Time Friday, October 17, 2008 Location Westminster, CA See more about 'CHARLOTTE BRONTE (Currer Bell) VILLETTE, 1853 FIRST ED.' Description AUTHOR:                           Charlotte Bronte, "Currer Bell" (Pseudonym) TITLE:                               Villette PUBLISHER:                      Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York DATE:                                1853 DESCRIPTION: First American edition, published in the same year as the original English triple volume edition. Original blindstamped purple cloth with gilt title on spine. Dimensions 7 5/8" X 5 1/4", 502 pages. Book features 18 pages of book adds in back and two in the front, including an add for "Jane Eyre". Charlotte Bronte's final novel, written under the pseudonym "Currer Bell". Bronte wrote the novel during a difficult period of her life and integrated much of herself and her personal experieces into the heroine of "Villette". "Arguably Charlotte Bronte's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her freindship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Bronte's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free." (www.online-literature.com/brontec/villette) CONDITION: Very good copy of the fragile first American edition. Light to medium corner bumping, very light edge wear on bottom spine edge, three very small holes (1/16" or less) on front spine edge, one inch light oval stain on lower left front board. Book is slightly cocked, spine and board edges are lightly sunned. As usual, general foxing throughout. Front free endpaper has previous owner's signature and year in quill pen, "H. A. Butler 1853".       Place a Bid!

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