Portrait of Jane Austen, A
by Cecil, David
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0094624003
- ISBN 13
- 9780094624009
- Seller
-
Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London, England: Constable & Company Limited, 1978. Book. Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with bottle green boards and pictorial dust jacket, First Edition, 800gms 208 pages, black coloured endpapers. This book is intended neither as a straight-forward biographical narrative of Jane Austen's life, nor as a critical study of her as an author, but rather, as Lord David writes, 'an attempt with the aid of material drawn from her letters, her novels and other people's memories of her, to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear. Dust jacket is in good condition with mild shelf wear, dust jacket is covered in a clear plastic removeable sleeve, otherwise no other pre-loved markings..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reading Habit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIOUK38
- Title
- Portrait of Jane Austen, A
- Author
- Cecil, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0094624003
- ISBN 13
- 9780094624009
- Publisher
- Constable & Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- AUSTEN, JANE; AUSTHORS- CLASSIC; HISTORY; BIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Shelf Wear
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