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The Novels of Jane Austen: The Text Based on Collation of the Early Editions in Five Volumes - Volume II, Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford At The Clarendon Press, 1940. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1940. Third Edition; Second Impression. 415 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. The Novels of Jane Austen: Vol. II Pride and Prejudice. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Ownership plate stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Deckled text block edges. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Fraying to spine edges. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.
Synopsis
"As the novel opens, Mr Bingley, a wealthy young gentleman, rents a country estate near the Bennets called Netherfield. He arrives in town accompanied by his fashionable sisters and his good friend, Mr Darcy. While Bingley is well-received in the community, Darcy begins his acquaintance with smug condescension and proud distaste for all the 'country' people..." - [*Wikipedia*][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1666967831GEO
- Title
- The Novels of Jane Austen: The Text Based on Collation of the Early Editions in Five Volumes - Volume II, Pride and Prejudice
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford At The Clarendon Press
- Date Published
- 1940
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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