1st Edition, 12.5 x 18 cm cloth backed blue/grey paper covered boards with title label to the spine. Uncut edges, 138(2)pp with spare title label tipped in at the rear. [Gilson F12] A very good book with toning to the spine, the titles label and to the fore edge of the boards, and with a slight rub on the rear boards. Internally clean and bright, noting only a gift inscription on the front free endpaper. All in all, a very nice 1st published edition of Jane Austen's earliest writing. 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 Inventory # 201140
Title: Volume The First Now first printed from the ...
Publisher: Oxford Clarendon 1933
Publication Date: 1933
Edition: 1st Edition
Book Description Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original boards, cloth back, paper label (a little browned), uncut, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. With spare paper label tipped-in at rear. Contains 'Frederic & Elfrida', 'Jack & Alice', Edgar & Emma', 'Henry & Eliza', 'Mr. Harley', 'Sir William Montague', 'Mr. Clifford', 'The beautifull Cassandra', 'Amelia Webster', 'The Visit', 'The Mystery', 'The three Sisters', 'Detached Pieces', 'Ode to Pity'. The first trade printing of the first volume of Austen's three volumes of juvenilia. A limited edition of 100 copies was issued in 1932. Chapman 24 (recording the limited edition of the previous year); Gilson, F12. Seller Inventory # 17229