Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen [U.K. MINIATURE HARDCOVER] 1956 • Thomas Nelson & Sons

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen U.K. MINIATURE COLLECTOR'S EDITION [1956] THOMAS NELSON & SONS Pocket sized hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. [nickel for scale :)] Dust jacket has some very minor wear; front panel has some sticker residue and a price clipped edge.  Now housed in an archival quality dust jacket protector. Book itself is in excellent condition.  *Gift inscription on front endpaper.  Clean cloth boards.  Faintest trace of spotting to text block.  Otherwise reads like new.  __________________________________ A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a famil