Austen on the Block! ~ Affordable Jane and More…

Freeman’s Auctions [of Philadelphia] has two sets of Jane Austen’s novels up for auction this week:  BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & EPHEMERA, Sale no. 1421.  2 Feb 2012. You can view the full catalogue here. Lot 308: Jane Austen Austen, Jane. The Novels.Oxford, 1923. Large Paper edition, #1/950 (1000). 10 volumes. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 crushed burgundy levant morocco, gilt, [...]

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Strange Bedfellows ~ Jane Austen and Sports Illustrated?

Well, maybe not such strange bedfellows after all ~ Jane Austen did, as we all surely know, invent baseball [and here], so why not give her a well-deserved mention in Sports Illustrated? I write this because my son went out of his way to drive over to my house just to show me what he assumed would be [...]

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On the Block! ~ Jane Austen’s The Watson’s

Breaking news from The Guardian:  [and now all over the blogsphere!] Jane Austen rare manuscript up for sale A rare, handwritten manuscript of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons is to be sold at auction at Sotheby’s in London. by Mark Brown, The Guardian, May 20, 2011 An incredibly rare handwritten manuscript of an unfinished [...]

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On the Block! ~ Sarah Burney’s Copy of ‘Pride & Prejudice’

Heritage Auction Galleries: 2011 April New York Signature Rare Books Auction #6053 ; Lot # 36518 Novelist Sarah Burney’s Copy of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]. Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of “Sense and Sensibility.” London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1813. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes (7 3/8 [...]

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On the Block! ~ An Imaginary Jane Austen

Up for auction on March 29, 2011 – Papers and Portraits, Bonham’s London, an imaginary portrait of Jane Austen.   From the catalogue: Lot No: 6 - A Portrait of Jane Austen BY AN UNKNOWN ARTIST, half-length, wash and pencil, highlighted with chalk, on vellum, inscribed on the verso in a small contemporary hand ‘Miss Jane Austin’ [...]

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Austen on the Block!

Auction Alert!   Heritage Auction Galleries has announced its upcoming “Signature Rare Books Auction”, October 14-16 – Beverly Hills, CA.  Auction #6048.  You will all be happy to see that all of Jane Austen’s first editions will be on the block! – all in lovely bindings and now viewable online and open for bidding: [note [...]

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Austen on the Block ~ Mansfield Park at Auction

Another auction with one Jane Austen title:  a first edition of Mansfield Park sold today at Sotheby’s for $21,250 ~ Sotheby’s  Fine Books and Manuscripts, Sale N08602,  11 Dec 09, New York.  Session 2  Lot 75 ~ AUSTEN, JANE 10,000—15,000 USD Lot Sold.  Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium:  21,250 USD  Description:  Mansfield Park. London: Printed for [...]

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“Emma” on the Auction Block

I entreat you to visit my Bygone Books blog for information on TWO first editions of Jane Austen’s Emma coming soon to the auction block …   [Posted by Deb]

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On the Block ~ Byron’s Hair

Sothebys has just published the results of today’s auction [December 17, 2008, Sale L08411, London] of English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, with a final take of 901,913 GBP!   Literature by the likes of Shakespeare, Byron, Milton, Keats, Dickens, and Beatrix Potter seems to be alive and well (but alas! no Austen today!)  Here is the result [...]

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Austen on the block ~

A copy of Austen’s Persuasion, a first American edition, sold at a Bloomsbury auction on December 10 for $3000.  Here are the details: 88. AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817). Persuasion. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. 2 volumes. 8vo (193 x 116 mm). Publisher’s linen-weave cloth-backed boards, paper spine labels, uncut. Condition: rear endpaper lacking in second volume, [...]

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