With the dismal return on one's investments these days, one might as well liquidate one's assets, including one's house and car, and purchase the first edition of
Pride and Prejudice for a mere £100,000 at
Sotheby's on October 28.
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| Pride and Prejudice, 1813, original 3-volume edition |
I know these three original volumes don't look pretty, but you can't go wrong with this investment. According to Sotheby's catalog description, "First edition, the Hogan-Doheny copy, of the author's most enduringly popular novel, extremely rare in the original boards. Since 1975 only this and one other copy intact in the original boards has been sold at auction." Jane's book has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and the her popularity doesn't seem to wane.
Pride and Prejudice is just one of five Jane Austen first editions being sold at the same auction and it is thought all five could sell for up to £220,000- the cost of a Hampshire house.
Other books in the sale are Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. - Hampshire.net
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