Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Emma
UK: IN THE original grey-brown paper boards with printed paper labels on the spines, these first edition copies of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, four vols. 1818, and Emma, three vols. 1816, sold at £19,000 and £22,000 respectively to an un-named US dealer.
These sums were well over estimate but what one might expect for Jane Austen in the original binding…