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Austen, Jane
The world famous Regency novelist. Austen wrote six novels, all of them classics. In each she documents with a wry humour the daily world and preoccupations of the English Landed Gentry. A continuous circus of marriage and property which Austen relates with such wit and realism that the books have stood the test of time better than any of her contemporaries. Austen is very modern and very much approachable. The books were hesitantly received to begin with, Austen seems to have relied on a friend of her brother's who mainly published military books, Egerton to publish her first novel 'Sense and Sensibility in 1811. She published another five. The editions were modest, two thousand copies but sold reasonably well and entered second and subsequent editions during her lifetime. But it was not until the Standard Bentley editions of 1833 that her reputation began its climb into the rarified reaches it inhabits today. Of course all the novels have been filmed several times over as each generation discovers her. The original editions are rare and important and correspondingly expensive. Bibliographically the first editions are quite straight forward. Premiums are restricted mainly to half titles and original drab paper boards as issued.
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1922 Love and FriendshipLondon : 1922A charming copy of Love and Friendship printed as a deluxe edition of two hundred and sixty. -
1930 Pride and Prejudice a Play in Four ActsLondon: 1930A very scarce play adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel, this script using dialogue from the novel and put to a script by Anne Johnson-Jones. -
1933 Volume the First, Now First Printed from the Manuscript in the Bodleian LibraryOxford: 1933An exceptional copy of this first edition thus by Jane Austen, printed from an original manuscript of Austen's juvenilia, held by the Bodleian library. -
1832 PersuasionPhiladelphia: 1832A scarce, first American edition of Jane Austen's final novel. In the publisher's original binding, and with the scarce adverts. -
2003 Jane Austen Caught in the Act of Greatness Arthur Axelrad Gilson 1stLondon: 2003An interesting analysis of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion' and 'Sanditon'. -
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2002 Maggie Lane Jane Austen and Names Signed First Edition Uncommon SignedBristol: 2002An uncommon first edition of this work by Maggie Lane. -
2010 Jane Austen's Sanditon A Village by the Sea Arthur Axelrad 1st Presentation CopyIndiana: 2010Arthur Axelrad's interesting analysis of Jane Austen's unfinished 'Sanditon'. -
1987 Mary Evans Jane Austen & the State Social Science Paperbacks Literary CritLondon: 1987A thought-provoking review of Jane Austen's work in regards to the state. -
1975 Barbara Hardy Reading of Jane Austen Literary Criticism Classic LiteratureLondon: 1975A work of literary criticism by Barbara Hardy. -
1996 Joan Aiken Emma Watson Completed Jane Austen Fan Fiction FirstLondon: 1996A charming first edition of a novel completing Jane Austen's "The Watsons". -
1951 Jane Austen Volume The Third Juvenilia First Edition Catharine and EvelynOxford : 1951The first edition of this volume of Juvenilia by Jane Austen. -
1981 Jane Austen's Emma on Television Monica Lauritzen Gothenburg Studies FirstGothenburg: 1981A scarce first edition of this study on Jane Austen and television.