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Johnson, Reginald Brimley. JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS NORTHHANGER ABBEY 1 VOLUME. J.M. Dent, 1892.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: J.M. Dent, 1892, 8vo, 245 pages. Book bound in a light green cloth, no dust jacket, spine darkened. Some foxing to pages. Frontispiece with 2 additional illustrations. Book in good condition. Originally published in 10 volumes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cape Cod Booksellers, Yarmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Johnson, Reginald Brimiley. JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY VOLUME 1. J.M. Dent, 1892.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: J.M. Dent, 8co, 163 pages. Book bound in a light green cloth, no dust jacket, spine faded. Frontis with additional illustrations. Book in good condition. Orginally published in 10 volumes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cape Cod Booksellers, Yarmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Jane Austen. Emma Vol. II. J. M. Dent & Co, 1892.
Price: US$40.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1892. No Edition Remarks. 258 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Vol. II of Emma; Volume VIII of X in the Jane Austen's Novels series. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters, and hinges exposing netting but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with noticeable staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Austen, Jane. The Novels of Jane Austen - Emma Volume 2 Only. J M Dent, London, 1892.
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Description: book slightly cocked
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen's Novels Volume IX. J M Dent, London, 1892.
Price: US$54.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: spine moderately stained, slight slant, endpapers have an offset stain, frontispiece partially loosr
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A limited edition copy of this poetical work by Austin Dobson, illustrated by Hugh Thompson. A limited edition, large paper edition. Number 140 out of 1250 copies for England and 200 copies for America.Illustrated by Hugh Thompson with an illustrated title pages, a frontispiece, vignettes and 25 plates. Hugh Thompson is best known for his illustrations of works by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and J. M. Barrie.Rebound in brown cloth with endpapers renewed. Original half title retained.This work features eighteenth century verses from poet and essayist Austin Dobson. Of those included, the most famous and longest ballad is the titled 'The Ballad of Beau Brocade,' dealing with the exploits of dandy highwayman Beau Brocade, later protagonist of Baroness Orczy's novel 'Beau Brocade' (1907) as well as a 1916 silent film adaptation under the same title. In a modern brown cloth. End papers renewed. Original half title retained. Externally lovely. Internally firmly bound with bright pages with only the odd spot, minor mark and tidemarks to the tail of pages 41 to 44. The odd unopened page. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: This two volume set is part of "The Novels of Jane Austen in Ten Volumes" appears to be the first issue of this set according to the printed ex-libris plates on fron endpapewrs of each volume. Both volumes are square and solid with somewhat soiled light green boards. God-stamped designs on front boards with gold stap,med spine, Rubbing on rear boards. Lightly illustrated with drawings and a portrait frontispiece in Vol. 1. Tissue protectors presnet but some detached. Biinding pulled but solid in some places. Foredges toned as are endpapers which have some type of stain. Pages toned but unmarked. A few edge tears from original cutting of pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Description: A mixed set of this edition: five of the volumes are first issue, the others being later issues. Small octavo. Ten volumes. The frontispiece to the first volume is from the portrait of the author by Zoffany. Each volume has three plates by William C. Cooke which give accurate depictions of Regency dress. Light green cloth decorated in gilt, top edges gilt. This edition is based on the last one to be published in Austen's lifetime.Ownership inscriptions on several of the front pastedowns. Free endpapers tanned. A few slight bumps to corners of covers. A very good set indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2823.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good to near fine set of the limited large paper edition of Austen's novels illustrated by William C Cooke. 150 sets were printed, of which 100 were for England and 50 for America. This set is no 66. This edition, edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson is the first Austen edition with commentary, and the first volume of Sense and Sensibility contains a biography of the author. The set originally belonged to Andrew Pears of Spring Grove in Isleworth and has his armorial bookplate with some shelf notes to front pastedown endpaper of each volume. Andrew Pears was a member of the Pears soap family, being a great grandson of the inventor of the transparent soap, and was a Liberal politician. He was responsible for the renovation and enlargement of Spring Grove. The set is bound in a light brown buckram cloth with gilt titles to spines. The spines and board edges have darkened and the boards have some colour variation. All are sound, clean and bright with slight cocking of the spines to the front. Corners with relatively little wear and slight turning. The paper used is high quality and watermarked 'Spalding'. Side and bottom page edges are untrimmed. All have a tissue-guarded frontispiece ( in the first volume - Sense and Sensibility part I, this is a portrait of Jane Austen by Johann Zoffany - and in the remainder the frontispieces are illustrations by Cooke) and a decorative title. All have 2 further Cooke illustrations with tissue-guards bar Sense and Sensibility part I which has 3. Each novel has half title to the set; title; note of publication and limited edition number; and a preface by Brimley Johnson. All the books are in very good to near fine condition. In detail - Vol I, Sense and Sensibility Part I: pp xxxii; text 1-163; 4 plates. Vol II, S&S Pt 2: pp 1-218; 3 plates. Vol III, Pride and Prejudice Pt 1: vii; text 1-191; 3 plates. Vol IV, P&P Pt 2: pp 210; 3 plates. Vol V, Mansfield Park Pt I: vi; text 1-245; 3 plates. Vol VI, MP Pt 2: text 1-249; 3 plates. Vol VII, Emma Pt I: vi; text 1-245; 3 plates. Vol VIII, Emma pt 2: text 1-258; 3 plates. Vol IX, Northanger Abbey: v; text 1-245; 3 plates. Vol X, Persuasion: iv; text 1-261; 3 plates. Contents exceptionally clean with the occasional small mark and there is light toning to free endpapers. There is some spotting at the uncut page edges - generally the side edge. All the plates are tissue guarded - some with guard attached at the top, but not the bottom. Persuasion has a couple of pinprick indentations at the bottom of the back board and a small bump at the top spine end at the joint with the back board. Board size: 20.7 cm x 13 cm. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Jane Austen. The Novels of Jane Austen (Large Paper Edition of 100 limited sets). J.M. Dent, 1892.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Works of Jane Austen" by Jane Austen. J.M. Dent, London. 1892 limited large paper edition of 100 sets. Complete in 10 volumes. Photogravure plates, endpapers browned, original buckram, spines uniformly darkened, uncut. One of the rarest Jane Austen sets available, especially in originally binding.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Jane Austen. The Novels of Jane Austen (large paper edition of 150 sets). J.M. Dent, 1892.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Novels, 10 vol., number 61 of 100 "Large Paper Edition" copies, from an edition limited to 150, photogravure plates, light toning to titles, browning to endpapers, original buckram, spines uniformly browned, some marking and toning to covers, slight rubbing and fraying to spine ends, uncut, 8vo, J. M. Dent, 1892.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Austen, Jane. THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN. J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1892.
Price: US$6357.48 + shipping
Description: Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. With illustrations by William Cubit Cooke and ornaments by F. C. Tilney. In ten volumes, totalling nearly 2,500 pages; frontispiece to each volume, plus another 21 plates in total (3 in Volume I and 2 in all other volumes, all plates with tissue guards), decorative title page to each volume, printed in red & dark brown; f'cap. 8vo; recent dark green morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, boards with single gilt rule border t.e.g., others uncut; marbled endpapers and later binder's blanks; J. M. Dent and Company, London, 1892. First edition thus. Gilson E75.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia