SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: Wordsworth Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a detail of ?A View Near Wharfedale?, 1859 by William Frederick Witherington. No bumps or rubs. No Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine, slight wear to hinge. Seems lightly used. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. VG+* Illustrations:- None.* Pages: 274 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements & distribution list at rear.* Product Description:- Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there, and tracks her growing understanding of the world about her. In this, her first full-length novel, Austen also fixes her sharp, ironic gaze on other kinds of contemporary novel, especially the Gothic school made famous by Ann Radcliffe.* This is a NEAR VG+ copy with light shelf wear and age reducing it to GD++*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4877
Title: NORTHANGER ABBEY.
Author: Austen, Jane
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - VG+/GD++/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 1853260436
ISBN 13: 9781853260438
Publisher: Wordsworth
Place of Publication: Ware, Herts, UK 274
Date Published: 1993-01-01
Size: 17.4 x 11 x 2 cm

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Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.