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Price: US$352.76 + shipping
Description: Front., plates & illus., 32pp. cata. (June 1890). Lacks following free e.p. Orig. green cloth, blocked in black, spine lettered in gilt. Gift inscription from Aunt Annie on recto of frontispiece. v.g. First published serially in the Illustrated London News, 1889, the first first book edition was issued in 3 vols, January 1890. This is the first one-volume edition in the Piccadilly Novels series. This was Collins's last novel, left incomplete by him, but with comprehensive notes which were used by Walter Besant to finish the book. The plot of the novel is based on a real life insurance fraud in which the living claimant arranged for a dead body to be identified as himself.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Wilkie Collins. Blind Love. Chatto & Windus, UK, 1890.
Price: US$1603.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blind Love by Wilkie Collins First Edition Chatto & Windus 1890. London. With a preface by Walter Besant and illustrations by A. Forester. W.H. Smith subscription slips affixed to each front pastedown. No stamps or inscriptions and contents unblemished throughout. Advertisements present. Publisher's blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front and rear boards decoratively stamped in black. VG copies.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom