[BRONTË, CHARLOTTE.] Villette. By Currer Bell. 8vo, original blind-stamped purple cloth with gilt-lettered spine, backstrip lightly but evenly sunned, front upper tip lightly bumped, one unobtrusive 3-mm spot on front cover; scattered very mild foxing; front endpaper with contemporary owner's ink signature; custom burgundy cloth clamshell box with printed paper spine label. unusually fine copy of the first american edition of brontë's final novel. Smith 152. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853