BRONTË, CHARLOTTE — Shirley; (Collins Classics #431)

London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1968. Hardcover. A 1968 reprint of the 1953 issuance. A Collins Classics edition of the second published novel by Charlotte Brontë. "Shirley," which followed her "Jane Eyre," first appeared in 1849 under the author's Currer Bell pseudonym. The story is set in Yorkshire amidst labor unrest in the textile industry following the Napoleonic Wars. With an introduction by Phyllis Bentley. Entry 431 in the Collins Classics series. --- In full green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, green topstain. Volume wrapped in light blue jacket with Collins' fountain to front panel. --- With penciled signature to front free endpaper, otherwise the book is bright, clean and tightly-bound. Good-only jacket with repair tape residue to verso at head of spine, small tears & chips to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; [4], 5-512 pages. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .