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Volume the First
by Austen, Jane
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
The Clarendon Press , 1933. Jane Austen's remarkable juvenilia date from 1787, when she was eleven, to 1793, when she was seventeen. She preserved these early writings in three manuscript notebooks. Frederic & Elfrida; Jack & Alice; Edgar & Emma; Henry and Eliza; The Adventures of Mr. Harley; Sir William Mountague; Memoirs of Mr. Clifford; The Beautifull Cassandra; Amelia Webster; The Visit; The Mystery; The Three Sisters; A beautiful description; The generous Curate; & Ode to Pity. CONDITION Grey bds with White Linen spine and paper title label (spine cloth split at head o/w unworn) 140 pages on nice paper stock. Bright and crisp copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15898
- Title
- Volume the First
- Author
- Austen, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Place of Publication
- The Clarendon Press
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
We are a small friendly book store stocking a unique selection of rare and out of print books. Currently we are searching for a suitable new location but have had an open book shop since 1998.
Glossary
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- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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