Dorothy’s taking up a collection
A first edition of Pride and Prejudice will be up for auction on March 8. We would just LOVE to have it at the Jane Austen Memorial Library and Reading Room, and promise to take excellent care of it. Dorothy swears she will dust it every single day. So drop your shillings in the cup going ’round and we’ll bid on it; after all, it’s estimated to go for the positively bargain-basement price of £12,000. No word on the condition of the book, but usually they go for six figures, and who can pass up such a bargain? Dig deep, now!
March 5th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I really hope the book in the picture isn’t the one that’s up for auction as the person holding it is not wearing gloves. HMPH!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Perhaps since Anne Hathaway is such a scholar she would donate some of her impressive salary she is making off the Jane Austen In Vogue Craze to the Cause? Who else but celebs can afford such prices? Or try Sandy Lerner, a Janeite who bought and restored Chawton House…she is probably bidding already….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/06/27/baft27.xml
March 6th, 2007 at 8:07 am
But would this make us all part-owners with our names on a title-deed ?
( someone always asks these dorky questions !)
March 6th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Mandy, that’s not a dorky question. Personally I’d be concerned about custody and visitation issues.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
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