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Price: US$50.03 + shipping
Description: Facsimile of the first edition in grey cloth, d.w. v.g. See Parrish & Miller p4. This is the only edition other than the first.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: with selections from his journal and correspondence, two volumes, original cloth, spines chipped with minor loss at head volume I, nick at head of upper hinge volume I, hinges and corners a trifle rubbed, portrait frontispiece and vignette titlepage (lightly spotted) volume I, vignette titlepage (lightly spotted) volume II, publisher's catalogue volume II dated August 31, 1848, pencil inscription front free endpaper volume I, a nice set. the author's first book; first edition; 348 and 354 pages Parrish pages 6-11; Wolff 1365
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$1058.28 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2 vols. Front. port. vol. I, engr. titles in both vols, 32pp catalogue vol. I (August 31, 1848). Orig. purple-brown vertical fine-ribbed cloth by Westley & Co., boards and spine blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt; cloth sl. darkened but overall a good-plus copy. Ownership inscriptions of H. E. Read, 4.8.32., in both vols. Parrish & Miller p4. Collins's first published book was this biography of his father, the celebrated painter; WWC broke off from Antonina to write it. The publishers' catalogue in vol. I is dated August 1848, (as Wolff's copy) rather than April as in Parrish.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2116.56 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first published work of important Victorian author Wilkie Collins, a touching biography on his father, painter William Collins. The first edition of this scarce work.Smartly bound in a half crushed morocco binding by Riviere & Son.Complete in two volumes.A touching biography on the life and career of William Collins, noted landscape and genre painter of the first half of the nineteenth century.Collins was known for his sentimental paintings of the poor enjoying nature.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece and engraved title.Volume II illustrated with an engraved title.Written by his eldest son, the important mystery and sensation novel Wilkie Collins. This personal biography was his first published work, published just one year after his father's death.Bookplate of W. A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey to the front paste downs.Bound without the publisher's adverts. In a half crushed morocco binding with cloth to the boards, bound by Riviere and Son. Externally, the front board of Volume II is dampstained, cloth is lifting to the joint and extremities. Very light rubbing to the front joint of Volume II. Only a few small marks to the boards. Bookplate to the front paste downs, small chip to the bookplate to Volume II, resulting in a small amount of wear to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Small tidemark to the margin of page 347/348 of Volume I. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom