Gaskell, E.C.  The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Author of "Jane Eyre", "Shirley", "Villette", Etc.   D. Appleton and Company, New York, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, TWO VOLUMES, LEATHER, FRONTISPIECES, 1857.   7 3/8 inches tall, 554 pages.  Harder to find 1ST US edition of Bronte biography, engraved frontispieces, marbled page edges and end pages, leather spines and corners. Some wear, but bindings remain tight and sound. Very handsome leather spines!              

                              Good/Good Plus ex-library condition for age and rarity with wear to corners, edges,

                   board surfaces as shown in photos, library stamp on title pages, library cards removed

                    from back boards as shown leaving remnants of cards, a bit of foxing/age browning.