LONDON (AP) — A rare first-edition copy of “ Wuthering Heights,” complete with spelling mistakes, is up for auction for the first time in more than a century, as Emily Brontë’s tragic, tempestuous romance gains new fans through a big-screen adaptation.
Christie’s auction house said Monday that it's the first copy of the novel in the publisher’s original cloth binding to be auctioned since 1908. Only about 250 copies of the first edition were printed, and this one has been in a private library since shortly after its publication in 1847.
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A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
“The vast majority of surviving copies were rebound for collectors or libraries, meaning original cloth examples are now extremely scarce,” said Christie’s books and manuscripts specialist Mark Wiltshire.
Being sold along with a copy of sister Anne Brontë’s “Agnes Grey,” it’s expected to sell for between 400,000 pounds and 600,000 pounds ($540,000 and $800,000) at a June 30 auction in London. Both books carry the male pen names the sisters adopted to get published: Ellis Bell for Emily and Acton Bell for Anne.
“Wuthering Heights” was rushed to publication after the success of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” and the first edition is notorious for its typographical errors including, Wiltshire noted, the occasional misspelling of the word “heights.”
Emerald Fennell ’s recent movie with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as mismatched pair Cathy and Heathcliff is the latest work to be inspired by — and take liberties with — Brontë’s brooding, Gothic tale.
The novel shocked some critics when it was published, with one in 1848 decrying its “vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors.”
Since then, Wiltshire said, it has “moved beyond literature to become a cultural touchstone,” inspiring art, music — notably Kate Bush’s pop-operatic 1978 song — and multiple film adaptations.
“It remains a work that artists return to again and again because of its emotional force, its atmosphere, and its psychological intensity, ensuring its place not only in literary history but in wider cultural imagination,” Wiltshire said.
A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, is on display for sale at Christie's auction house, with copies estimated at 400,000–600,000 GBP (540,000–810,000 USD) in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — President Donald Trump started his visit to the G7 summit of leading industrialized nations on Monday by declaring his agreement aimed at ending the U.S. war with Iran is a potential breakthrough for global security and a chance for the U.S. to finally turn the page in its relationship with longtime adversary Iran.
The Republican U.S. president sought to make clear that he arrived in Evian-les-Bains with the wind at his back for talks with G7 leaders, including some who have been sharply critical of his managing of the 15-week-old conflict, which has led to a surge in global energy prices — though he did not immediately seem willing to lay out the details of what was in the emerging deal.
Some of those details are still to be negotiated in talks over the next 60 days, though Trump said the memorandum of understanding would likely be released after it’s signed on Friday.
“I think a lot of great things are going to happen in the Middle East right now, and very importantly the oil (price) is plummeting down and the stock market is shooting up like a rocket today,” Trump said at a meeting with the summit’s host, French President Emmanuel Macron, before they joined a working dinner with other leaders.
“The Iran deal that we made is going to bring a lot of success to the world,” he said.
Trump has had friction with Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over failing to consult them before the decision to go to war. But sealing an agreement before jetting off to the summit might change the dynamic of the three-day gathering.
Macron at the start of Monday's meeting congratulated Trump for finding a way to an agreement.
"It’s a very important matter for peace of the whole world,” Macron said.
Trump has pushed back on the four European leaders — members of the NATO military alliance — for their lack of support for the U.S. in the conflict.
He's expected to discuss with leaders the demining of the Strait of Hormuz. Britain and France have expressed interest in assisting with the demining once the conflict is paused. Fear of potential mines is among the reasons tanker traffic has come to a halt during the war, and quickly clearing them will be crucial to regaining the confidence of commercial vessels.
Macron on Monday said France was ready to move within days to deploy assets, including mine-clearing vessels, to the region to help.
Senior U.S. officials told reporters that the while the agreement provides for the immediate opening of the strait and lifting of the U.S. naval blockade, it will take weeks for traffic to return to previous levels.
Macron invited the leaders of three nations that aren’t part of the G7 — Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — to take part in a session on the Middle East on Tuesday, when Iran is expected to be a central focus.
Trump had fiercely criticized President Barack Obama for the 2015 nuclear agreement, which Trump argued failed to stop Tehran from advancing toward a weapon and funneled billions of dollars into the Islamic Republic’s coffers.
In 2018, Trump exited the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the European Union were also signatories to the pact.
Trump in an interview on Sunday with The New York Times pushed back on comparisons to the Obama-era nuclear deal. “We negotiated from strength,” Trump said. “He was basically paying them off.”
But Trump hasn't explained how his agreement will address some key issues about Iran's nuclear program, including who will be in charge of verifying that Iran is complying with the agreement and who will destroy or remove 972 pounds (441 kilograms) of highly enriched uranium believed to be buried under nuclear sites that were badly damaged by U.S. strikes last summer.
The memorandum of understanding includes the possibility of releasing Iran's frozen funds, sanctions relief and a $300 billion fund to help rebuild Iran — all of which would be tied to Tehran meeting certain benchmarks aimed at assuaging White House concerns, senior U.S. officials told reporters on Monday.
Some Democrats and hawkish critics say Trump has failed to explain how the financial relief in his agreement will differ from what Obama did in the 2015 nuclear deal.
“For all his critique of JCPOA, we had international observers, we actually had an alliance there that included the Europeans, and Russia and China were all signatories,” Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CBS' “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Trump and an Iran hawk, expressed skepticism, saying that Congress will need to review and vote on any nuclear deal with Iran, and said he expects Vance — “the architect of the deal” — to present it.
“I am somewhat concerned that Iran’s view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming,” Graham said on social media.
Leaders are expected to discuss a range of economic and trade issues. Trump told the New York Post he’s warned Macron the U.S. will “have no choice” but to slap 100% tariffs on French wines unless Paris eliminates its digital tax on American tech companies, renewing a long-running threat from him that dates to his first administration.
Wines and spirits exported to the U.S. from the European Union currently face a 15% tariff.
In an interview with broadcaster TF1, Macron said Monday that it’s not “for the United States to decide what European or French law should be.”
Macron also invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a working session with G7 leaders on Tuesday to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war.
At the moment, Zelenskyy is not scheduled to hold one-on-one talks with Trump while they're both in France, but Trump on Sunday held separate phone calls with Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters that Trump emphasized the need to end hostilities with Ukraine and stated his readiness to influence European allies and Kyiv toward that goal, including at the G7.
Zelenskyy had offered to meet Putin with Trump and European leaders at the G7 gathering, but the Kremlin didn’t reply, a Ukrainian official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, and France would be obliged as an ICC member to arrest him. The United States and Russia both oppose the court.
Trump suggested that, after an Iran deal, he'll now have greater bandwidth to focus on the Russia-Ukraine war.
"Now that this is finished, we’re going to be focusing on that,” he said, referring to diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting that followed Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.
Madhani reported from Geneva, AP writers Samuel Petrequin and John Leicester in Paris; Volodymyr Yurchuk in Kyiv, Ukraine; Michelle L. Price and Collin Binkley in Washington; and Tom Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa contributed reporting.
President Donald Trump meets with French President Emmanuel Macron during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit, Monday, June 15, 2026, in Evian-les-Bains, France. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Air Force One carrying President Donald Trump landing at Geneva Airport ahead of the G7 summit, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, June 15, 2026. (Jean-Christophe Bott, Pool Photo via AP)
President Donald Trump is welcomed by H.E. Guy Parmelin, President of the Swiss Confederation, Ambassador Callista Gingrich U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Ambassador Terrence Billeter, Head of Protocol of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland, as he disembarks Air Force One at Geneva Airport, ahead of the G7 Summit in France, Monday, June 15, 2026, in Geneva, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Swiss Federal President Guy Parmelin welcomes President Donald Trump, right, after Trump disembarked from Air Force One at Geneva Airport, Switzerland, prior the G7 summit, Monday, June 15, 2026. (Martial Trezzini/Pool Photo via AP)
President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One at Geneva Airport, Switzerland, prior the G7 summit, Monday, June 15, 2026. (Martial Trezzini/Pool Photo via AP)
President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One at Geneva Airport, ahead of the G7 Summit in France, Monday, June 15, 2026, in Geneva, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
French President Emmanuel Macron meets members of the emergency forces, ahead of the G7 Summit, in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (Christian Hartmann/Pool Photo via AP)
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
A view of the Hotel Royal where leaders will meet, ahead of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
France Police officers control cars at a check point ahead of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
France Police officers control cars at a check point ahead of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
A view of the Hotel Royal where leaders will meet, ahead of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One, Monday, June 15, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump departs at the conclusion of the UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, June 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Donald Trump attends the UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, June 14, 2026, in Washington with Lara Trump, Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
