Onesies! Twosies – Lots of Choosies! Great Books for Wisconsin’s Jane Austen Fete – Dec. 15, 2012 – a Melange of Old and New
By Herself: Catherine Morland. Paris: Gallimard, 1946. 4th edition. Very aged; pages uncut. Gilson C70.French text. Paper. $15 Charades &c. written a hundred years ago by Jane Austen and her family. Gilson F2. Facsimile Norwood 1977 of 1895 original published by Spottiswoode. Jane contributed #18-20 of the 22 charades. The key is at the end. The book numbers only 36 pages, of which 9 are blank. Cloth binding as issued. Scarce. $60 Emma. Harper, 2000. Large Print edition. Fold-under card cover.6x9”. Paper. New. Reg. $22, $11 Emma . Bucks, Transatlantic Press, 2012. 2p. chronology, 1p. précis. 506 pages. Paper, reg. $10.99, new, $5 Emma. Barcelona: Editorial Lumen,1986, second edition. Pictorial card cover. 537 pp. Spanish text. New, $10 Emma. London: Worth Press, 2008. Winchester edition. A dozen enhancements, by Maggie Lane, John Wiltshire, Josephine Ross. Color drawings. Boards, $15Mansfield Park. London: Penguin Red Classic. 492 p. Paper. Published at 4.99 pounds, new, $5 Northanger Abbey. NY: Barnes and Noble, Collector’s Edition. Red cloth, embossed ship on cover. AEG. DJ. Prev. owner’s inscription. $5 Novels of Jane Austen. Text…by R. W. Chapman. London, Oxford, 1934. This is the Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen! The only edition, only year, Oxford printed it India paper! The expected carriages and clothing, places – nothing imaginary. All 6 novels in two volumes. Brown cloth, E150. VG. $175 Orgueil et Preventions. Ninove:Le Carrefour, 1946. Frontis. Illus. Ch-Ernest Smets .Copy #548 of 3000. Decorative ivory boards. French text. Gilson C59. $25Persuasion, Northanger Abbey. Single volumes ofRobt. Frederick (below) set, each, $10 Raison et Sensibilite. Bruxelles: 1945. Frontispiece by Raoul Livain. Copy 2177 of 3000. 214 pp. Paper covers, tissued-wrapped. French text. $20 Sense and Sensibility. Stunning reissue of London, George Allen, 1898, with seldom-found illustrations by Chris Hammond, numbering 63. Intro. by Joseph Jacobs, v-xxii. Dover, NY, 2010, 389p. Hammond illustrated only three of Austen’s novels ; b/w art is much like Thomson’s. Red cloth, DJ.Gilson E94. New, 19.95 Sense and Sensibility. London: Worth Press, 2008. Winchester ed. As described above in Emma. $15 Works of Jane Austen, illustrated by Hugh Thomson.Bath, Robt. Frederick, 2010. Apparently a remake of 1893Peacock edition, minus the Saintsbury preface. 4 ½ x6. Red cloth cover with embossed JA portrait and her signature. Silk page markers. DJs. Gilson E78,E82 et al. New. 6-volume set, new, $75 Works of Jane Austen. Folio Society, 1997 reprint. Intro. (1963) Richard Church. Wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. V. 7, Shorter Works, (2 novels, 10 others) of which Sanditon and 2 others are illus. Gilson E286, #281, E300, E340, E307, E328. F17. Very fine. Prev. owner’s sticker (removable).7 vol. in slipcase, $125
Ashe, Rosalind. Literary Houses: 10 Famous Houses in Fiction. NY: Dragon’s World, 1982. FE.Northanger Abbey, p. 91-103, illus.by Malcolm Kemp.Used. DJ. $15 Ashe, Rosalind. More Literary Houses. NY: Dragon’s World, 1983. Middlemarch, illus. by Michael Bishop, p. 37-49. Used. DJ. $15 Batey, Mavis. Jane Austen and the English Landscape. London: Barn Elms, 1996. An authentic guide to the real and fictional settings of the novels. DJ. New. $20Book Lover’sDevotional. What we learn about life from 60 great works of literature. And there is Jane Austen on – what else? – pride. 2011. Paper. New, $6 Illustrated Pride and Prejudice Companion. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920).Devon, David and Charles, 2005.Drawings taken from George Allen edition of 1894have been specially colored. Captions accompanying illustrations from original text. 60 pages, laminated illus. cover. New. $15 Marsh, Honoria. Shades from Jane Austen. Edition de Luxe illus. by the author. “Jane Austen’s Family in Silhouette,” with table showing Austen’s family and chronology by Peggy Hickman. London: Perry Jackman, 1975, first ed.,limited to 300 numbered copies with over 100 illus., mostlyin color. Bound in full goat skin, moiré silk taffeta eps, AEG. 12 x 9”. New in new matching goat skin slip-case. Orig. price in 1975 was 350 pounds!This volume was controversial in England – the Jane Austen Society was particularly upset – the silhouettes were shocking! Gilson L42. $125
Pool, Daniel. Dickens’ Fur Coat and Charlotte’s Unanswered Letters. No one could write a book on Victorian novelists without featuring our Jane! HB, DJ. $10Strange – and Wonderful! Packets from various AGMs, including the sack.(Sacks may show some wear – mea culpa!) O! Most every pkt features a previouslyissued catalog from Jane Austen Books and a conference directory. Toronto 1991.Only a 9x12 envelope, purchased from a late Janeite’s estate. No sack. But: enclosed in Portland, 2010, sack. No papers. Seattle 2001 Terrific graphics – great booklets. Colorado Springs 1999. I don’t know why there’s not much in Colorado. Boston 2000.Lots of paper stuff. Elegant sack. Philadelphia 2009. Double-zipper oversize sack; odd stuff inside (packet of Starbucks coffee). Tucson 2006. Unopened CD and unopenable cassette plus the usual. Snappered, pocketed sack. Chicago 2008. Arc-zip sack 2 mesh pockets. The usual. Madison, 1995. Apparently I was a board member of JASNA at the time, thus a blue binder with lots of …stuff from those meetings. No sack – have put everything in a Much Ado sack from Marblehead. Milwaukee, 2005. Interesting compilation of letters prepared by Joan Philosophos, with all references to the Chapman edition (this edition has disappeared from any JA catalog.) Black sack with two zippers, vinyl lined pockets. Have heard people say this is their favorite AGM sack. Toronto 2002. Lots of papers.Quebec City, 1998. Nothing – just the sack. Papers probably in some other sack. Fini. N.B. 1: any books offered by Juliet McMaster were removed. 2. I’m really impressed with my old catalogs! They are wonderful! AGM packets , $15 each
SPIN-OFFS, RE-TELLINGS, CONTINUATIONS, WHAT-IFS’s, ADAPTATIONS, and OTHER WRITERS
Beckford, Grania. Virtues & Vices. “Pornographic rewriting of Persuasion, set in the Edwardian period.” New Gilson xlviii. HB in DJ, used, $10 Collins, Rebecca. Postscript from Pemberley. Book 7 of The Pemberley Chronicles. Orig. printed in Sydney, NSW, 2002. Paper, new. $10 Fasman, Marjorie. Henry Fitzwilliam Darcy. This was Joan Philosophos’ favorite sequel. New Leaf Press, 1997. HB in DJ. $14 Fenton, Kate. Vanity and Vexation A Novel of Pride and Prejudice. Published in Britain as Lions & Liquorice. HB in DJ, $10 Grange, Amanda. Mr. Knightley’s Diary. Paper, new, $7 Kiely, Murder at Longbourn. FE, 2009. HB in DJ. $10 Kiely, Murder Most Austen, 2012, HB, new $20 Literary mystery: Hill, Reginald. An Advancement of Learning. Every chapter an epigram from Sir Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning. Bought this because Hill wrote Pictures of Perfection, whose epigrams were from Jane Austen. And yes, this mystery is just as perfect! Paper, $5. Lathan, Sharon. Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy. Paper. New. $7.50 Pitkeathley, Jill (Baroness). Cassandra & Jane. Paper, new, $7 Bronte, Charlotte Emily and Anne. The Complete Novels. Illus. with wood-engravings by Peter Reddick. London, Folio, 2004R. 7 Vs, slipcase, as new, $100 Lovesey, Peter. The Last Detective. Jane Goes to College. In Bath. 1992. Paper. With Rough Cider, mystery, signed by Lovesey! HB in DJ. The Pair, $12 Proust, Marcel.Remembrance of Things Past. Illus. Philippe Jullian. London: Chatto and Windus, 1957. 12 vols, lacking DJs. VG. $125 Rubino. Lady Vernon and Her Daughter. An expansion of Austen’s novella, Lady Susan.with thankfully, a family tree. HB in DJ, 2009. New, $15 Thirkell, Angela. Paper – kinda shabby, but I was lucky to snatch these up! Circa 1979. Before Lunch, The Brandons, Enter Sir Robert, Happy Return, Jutland Cottage, Marling Hall, Pomfret Towers, Wild Strawberries, paper, each $4. Another copy Wild Strawberries, Penguin, 1954, paper, $4. Trollope, Mrs. Belgium and Western Germany in 1833. Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Blanchard, 1834. Autograph of Clement C. Moore on t.p. (Author of Night Before Christmas.) Brown boards, cover detached but present. 18 page catalog rear including 1/6 page on works of Miss Austen. (These would be the first American editions.) Her travel adventures in Baden-Baden, Wiesbaden, Cassel, Hanover, etc. Some pages stained, foxed. 316 p. plus index and catalog. $25 Trollope, Frances. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Lithographs by Auguste Hervieufrom 1832 ed. London, Folio Society, 1974. As new in slipcase, $15
STUFFTeapot Handbag, red leather, 12 x 8 from spout to handle. $20 Harry Potterlaminated book cover handbag, bead handles. 8x5, Scholastic, $15 Teacup needlepoint address book, string ties. 4x4 ½. $10 Plasticized book sack w/ book imprints, 17x14 with gusset, $10 Jane-a-Day 5-yr. journal, new,$15 Jane Austen Stationery. 16 cards, 4 designs from Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts, 1810. Boxed, new, $12
Lakeside Classic.Travels through SC, GA, FL. The 1770s in the U.S. Flawed binding. 2010. Green cloth, $7 Available on Request (not here): Mrs. Gaskell. Works. Smith Elder, 1906. 7 volumes, cloth, VG, $750
Shaffer/Barrows. Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society. Novel. Jane appears – but at the end! HB, $7. Ppr, $5
(Fielding) Thomas, Donald. Henry Fielding. A Life.Best-known as the Father of the English Novel. Bio,Non-F. DJ, $7
Fraser, George M. The Pyrates. Swashbuckling comic novel. Paper, $5
Gardens. Mary Anne’s Gardens. (McLean). Color drawings. DJ. NF. $5 Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book): DJ. NF. $5
Heyer, Georgette. Mystery. Why Shoot a Butler? $5
Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover. For those who collect the gilt-edged Collector’s Library editions. DJ. $10
Leeming. Glenda. Who’s Who in Jane Austen and the Brontes. Bennet misspelled throughout. DJ. Non-Fiction. $15
Lynch, Deidre, ed. Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees. Claudia Johnson, Roger Sales, others. Paper. NF.$15
O’Brian. Patrick. The Hundred Days. First Amer. Edition 1998. HB. DJ. $10. Surgeon’s Mate, paper, $5
Pym, Barbara. Excellent Women, No Fond Return of Love, Some Tame Gazelle. Paper. EACH $5
Sayers, Dorothy. The Nine Tailors. A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery. Paper, $5
Addendum
Alcott, Louisa May. Jo’s Boys. From the original 1886 edition. Paper. $5
Austen, Jane. Emma. 82-page intro by Steven Marcus. 21-pages notes by Victoria Blake. DJ. $5
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Text used from 1908 Dent edition of the Austen novels. Intro. $5
Banks, Elizabeth. Creating Period Gardens. Color illus. Including: Gardens of Paradise 1730-1830. Dj. Reg. $40, $7
Buckley, Veronica. Madame de Maintenon. The Secret Wife of Louis XIV. Family trees, glossy pix, DJ. $7
Glover, Jane. Mozart’s Women. His Family, His Friends, His Music. DJ. $7
Hyde, Stella. Literary Lust. The Sexiest Moments in Classic Fiction. Imagine – 2 by Jane Austen! DJ. $5
Jane Austen Spiral Notebook. Colour cover illustration from Mansfield Park by Hugh Thomson. $10
Jane Austen Postcards. 15 illustrations, 2 each, from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, in stiff card folder. $7.50
Knox, Cleone. The Diary of a young Lady of Fashion in the year 1764-1765. Imaginary? Always a favorite. DJ. $6
Nesbit, E. (Edith). Five Children and It. Intro. Laurel Snyder. B/W illus. by H. R. Millar. Published in 1902. HB. $5
Norton, Mary. Complete Adventurers of the Borrowers. 4 books in 1. Illus. by the Krushes. HB. 1967. $20
Ottaway, Hugh. Mozart. London. An illustrated biography. DJ. $10
Palmer, Alan. Napoleon & Marie Louise. The Emperor’s Second Wife. 16-page glossy illus. DJ. $6
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife’s Tale. The Life of Martha Ballard, based on her Diary, 1785-1812. $7
Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut’s Civil War. DJ. $5
Emma, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility. And now –Persuasion and Northanger Abbey!
Illus. Hugh Thomson. Think this is the Macmillan (Peacock) edition of 1898 without Sainsbury intro. DJ. Each, $10