First UK edition, first printing. 138pp, with some fine woodcut illustrations. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth slightly rounded at spine ends. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1972, inked on the front free endpaper. Previous bookseller's small label on rear paste down, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
A novelisation of the early life of author Jane Austen.
