15717 Eliot DJ is in VG condition

DJ is in VG condition with slight tears and wear to top of spine

Brown paper

Miss Read's writing style abounds

Green cloth with silver decorations

Introduction by Constance Garrett

15717 Eliot DJ is in VG conditionAt pennies a copy, Austen's novels were some of the earliest mass marketed paperbacks. In the 19th century they were targeted to Britain's working class and were sold at train stations, traded for soap wrappers, and given as school prizes. This is the story of those paperbacks and other republications of Austen's novels told lovingly by a serious, scholarly collector who is an expert on book publishing as well as on Austen. Barchas shares the fun of