Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. Two volumes.
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1833,
First American Edition. duodecimo, drab blue paper laid over drab grey cloth, with contemporary calf spines. Carey & Lea, Item #32879
Lacking the [4] pages of advertisements that sometimes appear in front of the title page of Volume One. Withdrawn from the New Hampshire private library of Portsmouth Athenaeum having their contemporary printed book label on front pastedown of each volume with a later red ink WITHDRAWN rubber stamp in the center. No other library marks in either book. Bindings shabby. Calf dried and chipped, corners rounded, 3/4" of the fore-edge of back blank endpaper neatly clipped off. Each volume with two loose gatherings. Pages fairly free of foxing, though with periodic brown stains (1 or 2 examples pictured - just a few pages in similar condition). Volume One has the calf heavily chipped, the blue paper worn, especially on the back cover,dime-size lower corner lacking from blank preliminary leaf, back free endpaper lacking.
Price: $8,500.00