Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1906.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Highschool For Girls Bloemfontein. Introduction by Austin Dobson. Name of the previous owner. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 444 pages. 1906 edition, School Gilt Binding with very Handsome Spine. There is gilt on the spine and decoration on the front of the book. With 5 raised bands on the spine. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and slightly faded marks. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey & Persuasion. MACMILLAN AND CO LTD, LONDON, 1906.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: with an introduction by Austin Dobson, black/white frontispice with tissue guard, ex-library, usual markings, bookplate to inside front cover, gilt on front cover and spine, front and rear hinges cracked, cracked spine DATE PUBLISHED: 1906 EDITION: 443
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
AUSTEN, Jane. Northanger Abbey & Persuasion. London Macmillan & Co Ltd 1906, 1906.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: Pocket Classic Edition, 2nd Printing. 11.2 x 17.4cm, blue full leather binding with 5 raised bands and gilt stamped titles to the spine. Yellow top edge, marbled endpapers xvi, 443[5]pp with 40 black and white illustrations including tissue-guarded frontispiece. There is some rubbing to the spine and edges of the boards with loss of colour particularly on the raised bands and at the corners. Both front and rear panels have light surface scratching consistent with general use. Internally, the book is clean and bright without name inscription or bookplate and only occasional spotting, mainly limited to the prelims and last couple of pages. All in all, a desirable, Hugh Thomson illustrated full leather copy of these two Austen novels. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: EARLY THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page line drawings. Publishers original burgundy cloth with decorative blind stamped floral design to both boards, the front board lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Page edges untrimmed. Internally a fine bright and clean copy throughout. A little rubbing to the binding extremities and just a hint of fading to the spine but overall a very good, bright copy. Becoming increasingly difficult to find in collectable condition in the publishers cloth.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprints of the Macmillan Illustrated Pocket Classics. Limp red leather, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. Intros. by Austin Dobson. Each with tissue guarded frontis., and captioned b/w illustrations throughout. Pride & Prejudice illustrated by Charles E. Brock; all others by Hugh Thomson. Condition: VG. 1. Pride & Prejudice 1906 3rd reprint thus. Spine rather worn and creased. Minor edgewear and marks of age. Owner s name in pencil to ffep. Endpapers browned. Red silk page marker present but detached. Pages clean and bright. 352pp. plus 4pp. book list. 2. Sense and Sensibility 1907 3rd reprint thus. Spine a little rubbed. Minor edgewear and marks of age. Owner s name in pencil to ffep. Endpapers browned. Inner hinges partially split but leather intact along spine edges. Red silk page marker present but detached. Pages clean and bright. 341pp. plus 2pp. book list. 3. Emma 1907 3rd reprint thus. Spine a little rubbed. Minor edgewear and marks of age. Some spotting to foreedge. Owner s name in pencil to ffep. Rear inner hinge partially split but leather intact along spine edge. Endpapers browned. Red silk page marker lacking. Pages clean and bright. 437pp. plus 2pp. book list. 4. Northanger Abbey/Persuasion 1909 2nd reprint thus. Spine a little rubbed with small loss to head. Minor edgewear and marks of age. A little spotting to foreedge. Owner s name in ink to ffep. Endpapers foxed. Red silk page marker lacking. Pages clean and bright. 444pp. 5. Mansfield Park 1913 4th reprint thus. Spine bright and unrubbed. Minor bumping to corners. Owner s name in pencil to ffep. Endpapers and pages clean and bright. Red silk page marker present and attached. 429pp. Size: 7x5in / 18x13cm. Combined weight: 1.5kg.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$1729.17 + shipping
Description: Complete in five Volumes. Pride and Prejudice is illustrated with 40 line drawings by Charles E. Brock, each of the other volumes are illustrated with 40 line drawings by Hugh Thomson. Contemporary half green morocco by Riviere and Sons. Green cloth boards, double ruled in gilt to the corner pieces and spine edge. The spines, with five raised bands have gilt ruled compartments and titles stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A very good set, the bindings square and firm with some rubbing to the extremities, the spines lightly scuffed and uniformly faded. The contents, with toning to the text block edge are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Several of the pages, hand-cut to the fore-edge, have been a little roughly opened resulting in small nicks or tears (none of which affect any text or illustrations). An attractively bound edition of Jane Austen's works, illustrated with 200 line drawings by leading illustrators Hugh Thomson and Charles E. Brock. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom