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By: Ash, Russell and Higton, Bernard
Price: £2.50
Publisher: Aurum: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16977
ISBN: 1854102605
Condition: Very Good
64pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. Many colour and b + w illustrations. Gift inscription on the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. An anthology of selections from Jane Austen's writings, the recolections of her friends, early reviews etc. - part of the Great Writers series of concise introductions to the work of great authors. View more info
By: Austen, Jane and Hughes-Hallett, Penelope
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Collins & Brown: 1991
Seller ID: 16972
ISBN: 185585015X
Condition: Very Good
Long format. 1604pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. Many contemporary colour and sepia illustrations. Small signature of the original owner to the flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. A selection of the letters of Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, direct, perceptive and witty and showing the raw material which inspired her novels. View more info
By: Austen, Jane and Welland, Freydis Jane
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Francis Lincoln: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16976
ISBN: 0711230072
Condition: Fine
Tall format desk diary with a week to each page, with many full page contemporary colour illustrations and silhouette illustratons of relevance to Jane Austen's life or work. The boards are covered in striped blue paper with silhouette decoration and black spine. Ribbon marker. Gift inscription to the reverse of the flyleaf, but the diary has not been used and is very clean. If intended for use, January 1st in 2010 fell on a Friday! View more info
By: Austen, Jane, and Chapman, R W and Lascelles, Mary
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Oxford: 1976
Seller ID: 6228
ISBN: 019254702X
Condition: Very Good
The second volume of the third edition of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen, edited by Dr Chapman, and revised by Mary Lascelles. 416pp. The illustrated dustjacket is priceclipped and has a couple of small sellotape offset marks to the turnover flap, but is otherwise complete. B + w illustrations. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. View more info
By: Batey, Mavis
Price: £16.50
Publisher: Barn Elms: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16974
ISBN: 1899551025
Condition: Very Good
Large format. 135pp, complete illustrated dustjacket, a little faded to the spine. Colour and b + w illustrations. Original owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. The real and fictional landscapes in Jane Austen's work, and the ideas behind the response of her characters to landscape, reflecting contemporary 'taste and feeling' - sensibility, the gothic etc.. View more info
By: Cecil, David
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Constable: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16975
ISBN: 094624003
Condition: Very Good
A heavy book of 208pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket. Colour and b + w illustrations. Original owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. With the aid of material drawn from Jane Austen's letters, her novels, and other people's recollections of her, Lord David Cecil's biography reconstructs her living personality and explores its relation to her art and the society in which she lived. View more info
By: Collins, Irene
Price: £12.50
Publisher: Hambledon: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 16969
ISBN: 1852851147
Condition: Fine
242pp, complete illustrated dustjacket, a little faded to the spine. B + w illustrations. SIGNED by the author on the title page, otherwise a very clean copy. The central importance of Jane Austen's clerical background and a demonstration of the importance of the clergymen in her novels, how they were educated and appointed etc.. View more info
Price: £4.50
Publisher: Sutton Publishing: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16973
ISBN: 075091307X
Condition: Very Good
Tall format. 120pp, laminated colour illustrated soft covers. B + w illustrations. A couple of tiny spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise a very clean copy. The Christmas entertainments of Jane Austen and her contemporaries - food, charades, balls etc with Christmas extracts from her writing. View more info
By: Lane, Maggie
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Hambledon: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16970
ISBN: 1852851244
Condition: Good
184pp, complete illustrated dustjacket, a little faded to the spine. B + w illustrations. Small signature of the original owner to the flyleaf, some passages marked to the margin in the first half of the book, otherwise clean. The vital part played by the ritual of meals in Jane Austen's novels, and the attitude of her characters to eating, hospitality and housekeeping, the significance of food in Emma etc. View more info
By: Piggott, Patrick
Price: £17.00
Publisher: Douglas Cleverdon Clover Hill: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16978
ISBN: 0950388882
Condition: Very Good
184pp, priceclipped illustrated dustjacket is otherwise complete. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. The significance of music in Jane Austen's novels and its importance in her own life. The author was a concert pianist especially interested in the music of her times, and comments in detail on the contents of her music books, and private and public music making in Regency England. View more info
By: Selwyn, David
Price: £28.50
Publisher: Hambledon: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16968
ISBN: 1852851716
Condition: As New
352pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. Leisure and its use - music, needlework, society, art, dancing books etc as a central characteristic of Jane Austen's work, and its significance in understanding her characters and the role they play. View more info
By: Southam, Brian
Price: £28.50
Publisher: Hambledon and London: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 16967
ISBN: 1852852518
Condition: Fine
384pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. SIGNED by the author on the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. Based on family papers and naval records, this book shows Jane Austen as a historian of Nelson's navy at home with family and friends, but set against the background of the napoleonic wars. View more info
By: Watkins, Susan
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Thames and Hudson: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16971
ISBN: 0500014957
Condition: Very Good
A tall, heavy book of 224pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket. 177 illustrations of which 77 are in colour and special photography by Hugh Palmer. Small signature of the original owner to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. The style and customs of a country gentlewoman in town and country in the time of Jane Austen - interior decoration, entertainment, fashion, wallpaper, furniture, kitchens, with a directory of places to visit and bibliography. View more info
