https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gl...e-63879179
A set of five first-edition Jane Austen novels could sell for more than £100,000 at auction.
The books were bought by a UK-based private collector in the 1970s and 1980s for about £5,000.
They are now due to be sold at auction in Gloucestershire by the daughter of the collector.
The rarest of the five books is Sense and Sensibility as fewer than 1,000 were printed when it was first published anonymously in 1811.
Also being sold is a copy of Pride and Prejudice, which was published in 1813 in an edition of approximately 1,500 copies.
Wow, they've done well to survive as long as this... if anything, it's a surprise that they were worth so little in the 1980s!
Whoever buys them, I do hope they look after them... who knows what they'll be worth another two or three decades down the line
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A set of five first-edition Jane Austen novels could sell for more than £100,000 at auction.
The books were bought by a UK-based private collector in the 1970s and 1980s for about £5,000.
They are now due to be sold at auction in Gloucestershire by the daughter of the collector.
The rarest of the five books is Sense and Sensibility as fewer than 1,000 were printed when it was first published anonymously in 1811.
Also being sold is a copy of Pride and Prejudice, which was published in 1813 in an edition of approximately 1,500 copies.
Wow, they've done well to survive as long as this... if anything, it's a surprise that they were worth so little in the 1980s!
Whoever buys them, I do hope they look after them... who knows what they'll be worth another two or three decades down the line
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