Wuthering Heights [UNIQUE COLLECTOR'S COPY, FRENCH TEXT] by Bronte, Emily - 1947

Paris Chez Jean Porson, 1947, First Edition. paperback. UNIQUE ITEM for the serious Bronte collector and/or French publishing history. -- INCOMPLETE lacking chapters 23 -34. -- Limited Edition, two volumes, with original lithographs by Leon Masson, 11x14 inches. -- Our copy on offer is "Exemplaire Numero I" with paper watermarked "F K Rives". This is possibly an advance or review copy: the MISSING last twelve chapters were to be made at a different printer; the signatures are unbound and uncut; our copy has the statement that some copies in Roman numerals are reserved for the artist and publisher. -- Translated into FRENCH by Louise Servicen (with some modifications by the publisher). -- Softcover, wrappers with tissue covers (torn), 11x13 inches, and encased loosely in printed boards with ribbon closure. Condition: the pages, covers and illustrations are bright and crisp; the case is worn. -- BOOK PROSPECTUS is laid in: same size, four leaves; pricing information; details of the paper used and numbering in five formats, total limitation to 299 copies.