THE COMPLETE NOVELS. Sense and Sensibility. - Pride and Prejudice. - Mansfield Park. - Emma. - Northanger Abbey & Persuasion. -- Modern Library of the World's best books.
Penguin Books Limited. London. No date. Circa 1938, 1938.
EARLY ONE VOLUME EDITION. viii, 1364pp. Large 8vo. (8.2 x 5.6 inches). Neat school prize presentation, dated 1938, on the blank front free endpaper, and a couple of pages with spots otherwise a very good copy in early half red sheep binding by Foyles of London. Spine with five raised bands. Black morocco label, lettered and ruled in gilt. Compartments decorated with floral gilt centre pieces. Red cloth on boards. Circular gilt stamp of King Henry VIII's School, Abergavenny on the front board. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A few small scratches to the leather but overall this is still a very attractive early leather binding. --- Issued by Penguin in London using the American printed sheets. Although the text pages conform to item E180, published in New York in 1933, in David Gilson's Bibliography of Jane Austen, he doesn't list this British Penguin Books variant.
Item #11680
Price: £375.00