Emily Bronte: Her Life and Work by Muriel Spark & Derek Stanford [FIRST EDITION]

FIRST EDITION [1960] LONDON HOUSE AND MAXWELL

Hardcover with dust jacket in protective mylar cover.  DJ is fully in tact, but has some tanning and a touch of mild wear and tear to far edges.  Book itself is excellent.  Cover is clean, titling on spine is unfaded.  There is a tear on margin from a printing defect on a page or two towards the end of the book.  All in all, an Excellent reading copy!  

Emily Brontë: reality or legend? All we know of her is due solely to the testimonies of her sister Charlotte and to a few, fragmented anecdotes handed down by contemporaries. His voice reaches us only through his novel, his lyrics and a few pages of diary. Two are the images that come out of it: that of the lonely country girl, in love