Fall Great Estates Curated Auction

E.C. Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte 1st Edition

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Start price: $50

Estimated price: $100 - $200

Buyer's premium: 28%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (England, 1810-1865). The Life of Charlotte Bronte, in 2 volumes. First edition, 1857. Smith, Elder & Co., London. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4".

Wear to edges and spines, losses to leather, corners bumped and fraying, notations in pencil front endpaper volume 1 and illegible inscription on half title page, foxing to first leaves through title page both volumes.

Provenance: Harold T. Storey, London, April, 1970; private collection, New York City; thence by descent.

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