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Jane Austin's Manuscript Letters in Facsimile. Reproductions of Every Known Extant Letter, Fragment, and Autograph Copy, with an Annotated List of All Known Letters.
by edited by Jo Modert:
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0809314037
- ISBN 13
- 9780809314034
- Seller
-
Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Carbondale and Edwardsville:: Southern Illinois University Press,, 1990.. First edition.. Hardcover. Very Good. xxix, 542, [1]. The first 66pp comprise the Annotated list, which is followed by the facsimiles to which the entries refer. Clean and unmarked, with small bookplate to front pastedown. Quarto, in the original binding of blue cloth. Clean, with slight fading to spine, bottom corners slightly knocked, and an 8mm grease spot to the front. A good firm copy.
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- Bookseller
- Chapel Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19907110
- Title
- Jane Austin's Manuscript Letters in Facsimile. Reproductions of Every Known Extant Letter, Fragment, and Autograph Copy, with an Annotated List of All Known Letters.
- Author
- edited by Jo Modert:
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0809314037
- ISBN 13
- 9780809314034
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press,
- Place of Publication
- Carbondale and Edwardsville:
- Date Published
- 1990.
Terms of Sale
Chapel Books
Payment can be made by card (Maestro, American Express, Visa, Mastercard, etc), or by PayPal or sterling cheque drawn on a British bank. Non-Sterling cheques and Sterling cheques drawn on non-UK banks incur a conversion charge of 10 (sorry !). REFUNDS: If you are unhappy with a book for any reason and return it within a week in the condition in which you received it I will refund the price of the book in full. If the book arrives damaged or is not as described, I will also refund the shipping cost in both directions. If you are returning it for other reasons, you will be responsible for paying the shipping cost both ways. Please email or ring me if you have any questions. 01728-648616 - try any hour !
About the Seller
Chapel Books
Biblio member since 2007
Westleton, Suffolk
About Chapel Books
I sell books from a large disused Chapel next to the village duck pond, where I have lived about 40 years: just inland from Dunwich and between Southwold and Aldeburgh. I open 7 days a week, 12-5.
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