{"id":39114,"date":"2020-03-01T12:38:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T17:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=39114"},"modified":"2024-04-15T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:38:13","slug":"jane-austin-always-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2020\/03\/jane-austin-always-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Austen &#8211; Always A Hit!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<div id=\"attachment_39115\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/austen_book.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39115\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/austen_book-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice first edition\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Does anyone buy books anymore?\u00a0 Apparently so, as six first editions by Jane Austen made history at a recent sale.\u00a0 It is always noteworthy when any of her first edition books hit the auction block, but to have all six of her major novels up for sale in the same auction, still with their period binding, is quite astonishing.\u00a0 The novels far exceeded their estimates as one collector managed to buy them all! <em>\u00a0Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, 1813, probably her most famous novel, was estimated at $20-30K and brought $80K ($100K w\/p).\u00a0 The rarest of the group, as there were less than 1000 first edition copies printed, was <em>Sense and Sensibility<\/em>, 1811; it was estimated at $30-40K and sold for $65K ($81,250 w\/p).\u00a0 <em>Emma<\/em>, 1814, (now out in theatres &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9214832\/\">https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9214832\/<\/a>) was the only edition to have a dedication, &#8220;to the Prince Regent, the future King George IV&#8221;, was estimated at $15-20K, and earned $22K ($27.5K w\/p).\u00a0 <em>Mansfield Park<\/em>, 1814, sold for $16K ($20K w\/p &#8211; est. $8-12K); and lastly,<em> Northanger Abbey <\/em>and<em> Persuasion<\/em>, both from 1818, sold together for $9,500 ($11,875 w\/p &#8211; est. $3-4K).\u00a0 The total for the six novels was just over $240K, a really nice addition to someone&#8217;s library!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the market for a great new addition to your library, check out &#8220;The Art of Still Life&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/contemporary-bio\/todd-m-casey\/\">Todd Casey<\/a>, available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1580935486\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1580935486&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=rehs-20&amp;linkId=8069923882a3f1ba445e4caa1005a4a9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone buy books anymore?\u00a0 Apparently so, as six first editions by Jane Austen made history at a recent sale.\u00a0 It is always noteworthy when any of her first edition books hit the auction block, but to have all six &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2020\/03\/jane-austin-always-a-hit\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[207,432,424],"class_list":["post-39114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-auction-news","tag-book","tag-really"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jane Austen - Always A Hit! 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