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Collins, Wilkie. Poor Miss Finch - A Domestic Story. Richard Bentley and Son, London, 1873.
Price: US$121.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1873. Second edition or 'New edition' in one volume (the first edition was in three volumes, published in 1872). viii, 432pp. William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist and playwright, best known as the author of The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). Poor Miss Finch is a novel about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers. The book is bound in the original dark green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and embossed designs on the boards. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and light soiling on the boards. The cloth on the corner tips is worn and the spine edges are rubbed. The spine ends are bumped with a small bit of damage to the cloth. The contents are tight and clean with a gentle crease across the top corner of the preliminary and first dozen or so pages. The front free endpaper has a bookseller's blind stamp on the top corner and there is a split down the spine gutter of the front endpapers leaving the mull binding the book showing through and a little damage to the spine edges of the endpapers. There is no inscription.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$545.14 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Excellent 2 Volume First Edition Set. Crown 8vos. Hardbacks. Bound in half maroon contemporary calf and blue-marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments. Vol.1 - vi + 297pps.;- Vol.2 - iv + 298pps. + advert leaf. (Sadleir 600;- Wolff 1370.) A STUNNING SET.! Rare in this attractive state.
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
COLLINS, Wilkie. The New Magdalen. A Novel. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1873.
Price: US$545.14 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two volumes. vi, 298; iv, 298 pp., bound without the publisher's advertisement to the rear of volume II. 19th century blue cloth, spines with double gilt ruled compartments with gilt lettering to three of the panels, small private owner's shelf labels to the front pastedowns. Slight foxing to a few leaves in each volume, generally very good. Parrish and Miller, p.89. Sadleir, 600. Wolff, 1370.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
COLLINS, William Wilkie.. The New Magdalen.. Richard Bentley. 1873, 1873.
Price: US$1058.21 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 2 vols bound in one. Plain half dark green morocco, green cloth boards. Parrish & Miller p91. The story of Mercy Merrick, a prostitute who struggles against prejudice to return to respectability and is eventually 'rescued' by - and married to - the Reverend Julian Gray.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
COLLINS, William Wilkie.. The New Magdalen.. Richard Bentley. 1873, 1873.
Price: US$1693.13 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Finely bound in half brown crushed morocco, marbled boards; spines sl. faded. t.e.g. v.g. attractive copy. Parrish & Miller p91. The story of Mercy Merrick, a prostitute who struggles against prejudice to return to respectability and is eventually 'rescued' by - and married to - the Reverend Julian Gray.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
COLLINS, Wilkie.. The New Magdalen - A novel.. Richard Bentley, London., 1873.
Price: US$2116.41 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. Two volumes: pp vi, 297; iv, 298, [1] adverts. Mid-Twentieth Century binding by Rivière of three-quarter red morocco with raised bands, gilt decorated spines, gilt rules, cloth sides. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With the burgundy leather ex libris Beeleigh Abbey bookplate of W.A. Foyle on the front pastedown of each volume. The original cloth spines and cloth sides have been mounted on blanks at the rear. One of the most didactic of Collins's novels it is about a fallen woman who with the help of a not wholly disinterested clergyman tries to put her past behind her. A fine set.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom