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[Bronte (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell" - Villette, 3 vol., first edition, lacking 12pp. publishers' catalogue at the end of vol.1, lacking imprint leaf at the end of vol.3, some finger-soiling and light staining, decorated endpapers, modern cloth, lettered gilt, front paste-downs to finished, [Sadleir 349; Smith 6], 1853 § Haggard (H. Rider) King Solomon’s Mines, early edition, folding chromolithographed frontispiece (torn without loss), original red cloth decorated in black, upper board ‘gnawed’ at fore and lower edge, catalogue marked, 5 G. 1.86, 1986 § Kipling (Rudyard) Captains Courageous, first edition, second issue, original cloth, foxed, 1897 § Brand (John) Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain, 3 vol, half calf, gilt, rubbed, top of vol. II damaged, 1849; and another, 8vo. (9)
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[Bronte (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell" - Villette, 3 vol., first edition, lacking 12pp. publishers' catalogue at the end of vol.1, lacking imprint leaf at the end of vol.3, some finger-soiling and light staining, decorated endpapers, modern cloth, lettered gilt, front paste-downs to finished, [Sadleir 349; Smith 6], 1853 § Haggard (H. Rider) King Solomon’s Mines, early edition, folding chromolithographed frontispiece (torn without loss), original red cloth decorated in black, upper board ‘gnawed’ at fore and lower edge, catalogue marked, 5 G. 1.86, 1986 § Kipling (Rudyard) Captains Courageous, first edition, second issue, original cloth, foxed, 1897 § Brand (John) Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain, 3 vol, half calf, gilt, rubbed, top of vol. II damaged, 1849; and another, 8vo. (9)
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