VOLUME THE FIRST ... Now First Printed from the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1933. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-ix [x] [1-2] 3-140 [note: first leaf is a blank], original gray boards with linen shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Good-humored minor pieces by the young Austen not yet entirely in command of her later subtleties: "Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor" (page 9). NCBEL III 692. Owner's name and date (October 1933) on front free endpaper. Some light tanning and foxing to spine panel, small water stain on front board, else a very good copy. (#129123).

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