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Jane Austen. Sense And Sensibility. George Allen, 1899.
Price: US$166.51 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: ID961A General Overall Condition: Acceptable. Spine missing, but no loose pages. Corners and edges Rubbed to Boards. Internally Very Good for age. Pages are lightly Tanned, with text and images clear throughout. Foxing to inside Covers, End Papers, and a small number of pages. Plate to inside Front. Please see pics. Suitable for Repair!
Seller: SN Books Ltd, Thetford, United Kingdom
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. George Allen, London, 1899.
Price: US$640.43 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Lacks spine, bottom corners badly bumped/rubbed, text block square & tight & unmarked, offered as a restoration/rebinding copy, photos available on request.
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Austen, Jane ; Jacobs, Joseph. Sense and Sensibility 1899. GEORGE ALLEN, LONDON, 1899.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: beautifully gilted decorations on cover and spine, age toned spine, gilted top edge of pages, 1st edition of george allen publications, bumped corners, general wear, rubbed extremities, foxing on inner boards and first few and last pages, lightly age toned pages, tiny pencil marking at top corner of inner front board (PO Initials maybe), front end paper cut out, else, unmarked. DATE PUBLISHED: 1899 EDITION: 389
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1338.50 + shipping
Description: Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Publisher's original blue cloth elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to front cover and spine; all page edges gilt; blue coated endpapers In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges and corners a little bumped. Two small nicks head of spine. Very slight lean to binding. Inside some light foxing on early pages, pages 16-17 have some faint offsetting from possibly a bookmark, rear endpaper small nick lower corner, else inside pages all clean and tight throughout. A lovely copy. 389pp. Many b&w illustrations by Chris Hammond.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Austen, Jane and Jacobs, Joeseph (Intro). Sense and Sensibility. ALLEN, GEORGE, LONDON, 1899.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bright gold gilt on cover/spine/fore edges, slightly age toned pages, very lightly foxed end pages, hinges slightly cracked, PO name at top of title page, else, clean and unmarked. DATE PUBLISHED: 1899 EDITION: 389
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Description: FIRST HAMMOND EDITION, frontispiece and 63 further illustrations from her line-drawings, ownership inscription to half-title, the odd light spot or handling mark to borders, pp. xxviii, 389, crown 8vo, original dark blue cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered and with a lavish decorative border in gilt, spine leaning gently, slight wear at tips, a.e.g., dark blue endpapers, the rear free endpaper with an abrasion from having sometime adhered to facing pastedown, very good. An attractive edition, of a piece - though carrying a distinct design - with the same publisher's 'Peacock Edition' of 'Pride and Prejudice', preceded also by the similarly attractive Hammond edition of 'Emma'. The illustrator was Christiana Mary Demain Hammond, the first female illustrator of this work. (Keynes 57)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Jane Austen; Joseph Jacobs [Intro.]. Sense and Sensibility. George Allen, London, 1899.
Price: US$1665.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first Chris Hammond edition of Jane Austen's beloved first novel, in a beautiful pictorial cloth binding. A first edition thus of this work, which was first published in 1811.Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous full page and vignette illustrations by Chris Hammond, a prominent female illustrator and artist, and a member of the Cranford School of illustrations, which was originated by Hugh Thomson.This first edition thus was produced to capitalise on the success of Hugh Thomson's 'Peacock Edition' of 'Pride and Prejudice', featuring a similar cloth binding and a similar style of illustration, and produced by the same publisher. Hammond also produced a similar edition of Austen's 'Emma'.Lacking the front free endpaper.A beautiful edition of this charming novel about the coming of age of the three Dashwood sisters. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Externally, excellent. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, with minor bumps to back strip head. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Front free endpaper renewed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: beautifully decorated with gold gilt flowers and lettering on cover and spine, deckled pages, illustrations throughout book, slightly age toned pages, slightly bumped corners, spine slightly shifted, general wear. Custom clamshell box in very very good condition with leather label on spine with gold gilt lettering. DATE PUBLISHED: 1899 EDITION: 389
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.