Monday, April 21, 2008

For your drooling pleasure: Rare Austen editions for sale


Bauman Rare Books lists following tantalizing items on their website:

  • First editions of Mansfield Park ($27,000) and Emma ($26,000)


  • The complete novels with illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Charles E. Brock (only $3,500)


  • First editions of Pride and Prejudice Volumes I and II, with second edition of Volume III ($42,000)

More info on all four rare Austen editions here.

Austen adaptations article on Women's eNews

Sarah Seltzer, aka The Egalitarian Bookworm (Chick?) quoted me in her article "Austen Boom Keeps 'Janeite' Scholars Jumping" along with much more famous Janeites such as Margaret C. Sullivan (AustenBlog; The Jane Austen Handbook), Carol Pippen (Professor of English at Goucher College/JASNA newsletter editor) and others. Go give it a read!