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Collins, Wilkie. The Black Robe. Chatto & Windus, London, United Kingdom, 1881.

Price: US$72.39 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First Edition thus. with 'A New Edition' and 1881 to the title page. 311pp adverts, early pages of adverts missing. This edition is a one volume edition and was published by Chatto & Windus between Chatto & Windus 1881 -1882. Original green cloth decorated in black to the front panel, titles in black. Gilt decoration and title to the spine. New end pages and a amateur repair to the top section of the title page. . A fair copy only of a scarce edition. The text is complete.

Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland

Collins, Wilkie. The Black Robe. Chatto & Windus, London, UK, 1881.

Price: US$93.57 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A new edition (the first one volume edition, from the same year as the first, three volume, book edition, also published by Chatto & Windus - previously serialised in the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent Supplement and other regional newspapers). viii, 312pp, with one page of publisher's ads preceding the title page and a 32pp publisher's catalogue, dated November 1881, bound in at rear. In green cloth-covered boards decorated in black with black lettering on front panel, and black decoration and lettering on spine embellished with gilt finishes. All edged untrimmed. Decorative endpapers. Vignette on title page. 12mo. Boards are worn at edges, rubbed at corners and spine ends, and a little marked. Text block edges dust darkened. Front hinge has partial crack, with endpaper a little rippled near hinge. Previous owner's name, dated 1882, inked on front endpaper verso. Faint and occasional spotting but generally neat and clean internally. An early and hard to find edition of one of Collin's later novels. Collins is probably best known for Woman in White and The Moonstone, widely considered to be the first detective fiction novel. Mr Murthwaite, the renowned traveller in The Moonstone, makes a brief reappearance in this novel.

Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom

Collins, Wilkie. THE BLACK ROBE. Belford, Clarke & Co (1881), Chicago, 1881.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First U.S. edition in hardback as near as we can tell. Originally published in London in 1881 by Chatto & Windus as a triple decker and in the same year as in a single-volume version. The first U.S. was published in softcover by George Munro in the Seaside Library. OCLC records one copy of this Belford, Clarke edition at Yale but we can find no further bibliographicall details and would appreciate any additional information. 8vo blue cloth boards stamped in black and gilt. Good or better with some tiny nicks and tears and covers a bit skinned and rubbed, most noticeably along the edges.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

COLLINS, William Wilkie.. The Black Robe. New edn.. Chatto & Windus. (Piccadilly Novels.) 1881, 1881.

Price: US$428.85 + shipping

Description: Half title with ads on verso, 32pp cata. (November, 1881). Orig. olive green cloth, blocked in black, spine lettered in gilt; sl. rubbing. a nice copy. Ownership inscription on leading e.p. of E.A. Maudsley, 1882. First published in 3 vols earlier in 1881, Parrish & Miller p114. This is the first one-volume edition, although Gasson suggests that the first Piccadilly Novels edition was 1884. Collins's anti-jesuit novel, involving a disputed will.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

Collins, Wilkie. The Black Robe (Three Volumes). Chatto & Windus, London, 1881.

Price: US$1169.59 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Ex-lending library copy. Three volumes. Each volume is bound in plain cloth with the volume number, title, author's name and a library reference number to the spine. The boards have some surface staining and rubbing and fraying to the corners. There are no other library markings on the books. Each volume has brown tape down the endpapers over the hinges at the front and back. The bindings are fairly slack in places in each book with more specific problems noted below. The top edges of the pages are browned and the pages in each volume are generally unmarked although in each case there are patches of staining and spotting throughout with other specific faults as noted below. For Volume I the whole book has become split into three sections with pages 141 to 188 a separate section along with that part of the spine. The spine of Volume II is cracked but intact and there is some staining along the inner edges of the pages through the second half of the book. Volume III has a half inch piece missing from the surface of the spine at the top and two inches missing from the surface at the bottom with cracking down either side of the spine. Pages 17, 47 and 225 are loose with some chipping and creasing to the edges where they have been protruding from the other pages. Pages 161 and pages 235 to 240 are loosening along half the length but still attached and the binding feels particularly slack in this volume. First printing. Three volumes together so there will be an additional postage charge for overseas orders.

Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom

Wilkie Collins. The Black Robe. Chatto and Windus, London, 1881.

Price: US$8447.05 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: An incredibly scarce, first edition set of Wilkie Collins' novel 'The Black Robe'. In the original cloth binding. All three volumes are in the original black pictorial cloth bindings. With the library label for 'Mitchell's Royal Library' to the front boards. It is common for this work to have library plates.Volume I has been rebacked, with the original spine laid down.Complete in three volumes.The black robe is regarded as an anti-catholic novel. "The black robe" was stylistically different compared to his prior novels. This novel is epistolary in form and is formed of a selection of "scenes" for coherence. Collins had previous success in dispersing the narrative across a range of narrators. In this novel a high ranking Catholic priest schemes to recover property he considers to belong to the church.In the same year a single volume publication of this work was issued.A very scarce work, particularly in the original binding.Collins is probably best known for 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone'. The latter is regarded as the first modern detective novel. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Volume I is rebacked with the original spine laid down. Library stamp to the front board of all volumes. Externally, very smart with just some light shelfwear to the extremities. Minor loss to the head and tail of spine. Small dent to the head of rear board to volume II. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges. Occasional scattered spots to pages. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom