AUSTEN & MARTIN, 1891-1922, 2 Vols., South Africa, Ostrich Farming, English Literature

Jane Austen, Love & Freindship and Other Early Works, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922, second printing, octavo, publisher’s cloth-backed patterned boards with front cover architectural design, frontispiece facsimile plate. Together with Annie Martin, Home Life on an Ostrich Farm, London: George Philip & Son, 1891, second edition, octavo, pictorial publisher’s cloth, illustrated with plates. 2 vols.

Sound used copies; Martin spine head torn and fraying, corners bumped, foxing to preliminaries, pencil and ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers and dedication leaf; Austen spine sunned, minor offsetting to tissue guard.