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AbeBooks Seller since June 27, 1998
8vo (185 x 120 mm); frontispiece illustration of the author, internally fine; publisher's maroon leatherette, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, red page-marker ribbon, small bookseller's label inside, on upper pastedown, fine, original paper covered slip-case with some wear, otherwise the book is a fine copy. Austen's debut novel and one of her several masterpieces, it tells the story of Marianne and Elinor Dashwood and their parallel experience of love and its threatened loss. The sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. Seller Inventory # 113831
Title: Sense and Sensibility. With an Introduction ...
Publisher: London Collins
Publication Date: 1968
Binding: Hardcover
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
7.5 x 4.5 inches. Maroon leather covers, with gilt to spines and decorated fronts. Top page edges maroon. Patterned endpapers. In very good condition. Spine slightly cracked. S mall marks to edges. Neat pencil inscription to main title page. Else a clean and tight copy. 352 pp. With a B&W frontis portrait of Jane Austen. Seller Inventory # 90218
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