The Professor. A Tale by Currer Bell, Author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," "Villette," &c.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857.
Price: $350.00
About the item
First American edition, published the same year as the first British edition. [ii] (ads), vii, [9]-330 (6) pp. 8vo. Blindstamped dark brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, yellow coated endpapers. Spine cocked, rubbed at head and foot, stain to front board, light spotting, ownership signature to ffep, which has a chip in the corner. Smith "Bronte Sisters" p. 171; Symington p. 41, not noting the six pages of publisher's ads.
Item #375443
Charlotte's first-written novel, posthumously published, the same year as Mrs. Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
