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Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
AUSTEN, JANE. Mansfield Park. 2 volumes. 4 page publisher's catalogue inserted at front of volume 1 (loose). 8vo, original publisher's 1/4 muslin-backed drab boards, lettering labels on spines, rubbed with some loss, moderate staining, front joints split; ads and majority of sewn signatures detached in vol. 1, moderate foxing, light corner dampstain to prelims and approximately first 40 pages of vol. 2; old ownership inscriptions on front pastedowns of each, with later Camden County Historical Society bookplate to vol. 2. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832
unsophisticated set of one of 1250 copies printed. Few copies of any of Austen's first American editions have survived, copies in the original boards rarer still. Gilson B4.
