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Price: US$47.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is an original, complete issue of 16 pages dated August 25, 1860 -- Vol. 4, No. 191 -- Illustrated With Wood Cut Engravings -- Covers and contents are tight, nice condition -- The Front Cover has a full page engraving titled "His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales" -- Page 532 has a full page engraving titled "The City Of Quebec, Canada, From The Top Of Prescott Gate" -- Page 533 has a portion of the serialization by Wilkie Collins titled "The Woman In White" -- Pages 536 & 537 is a double page centerfold engraving titled "The Visit Of The Prince Of Wales To Canada", "The Victoria Tubular Bridge and The Arches At Montreal" -- Page 540 has a full page engraving titled "The Liberators Of Sicily--Garibaldi and His Staff" -- Other engravings, and articles related to events occurring at the time -- We have over 1,000 issues of Harper's Weekly Listed On Abebooks ---- We Store and Ship each Harper's Weekly Issue in a Large Zip Lock Plastic Sleeve with a Board Insert for Stiffness. They are Shipped Flat and Never Folded or Rolled Up. All of this Attention to Maintain Quality Enhances the Condition of the Delivered Product To You.
Seller: JB Company USA, HUMBOLDT, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete April 21,1860 Harper's Weekly. Cover engraving of Stephen A. Dougles, Senator from Illinois with accompanying article. Full page engraving of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, double page engraving of PROMINENT CANIDATES FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, Wilkie Collins WOMAN IN WHITE (Miss Halcombes narrative concluded)plus lots more on the world of 1860. Light creases with small thread notches along spines edge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-C-1-Bottom-R-Flat rareviewbooks) rareviewbooks
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1860.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: 260p. Parrish. Bibliog. of Collins, p. 40, variant binding. Good condition, lacking front flyleaf, hinges cracked
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$377.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A three-volume hardcover edition, the three (smaller 8vo) volumes of the triple-decker -- half leather over marbled boards with spines divided into five panels -- matched and appearing identical from the exterior, though in fact a "mixed edition" with the first and third volumes identified to title pages as "Third Edition," while volume II calls itself a "Sixth Edition." (As all three volumes are "Sampson Low, Son, & Co, 47 Ludgate Hill, London 1860," we suspect third and sixth "printings" might be a more appropriate translation into the modern usage.) Topstains somewhat faded but appear to be violet. The second and third volumes are "very good" with modest rub to leather corners, first volume "good only" as it's missing the bottom panel of the spine covering. All three volumes printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street, London. "The Woman In White" is of course the sixth Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, added to that expanded list by Ellery Queen circa 1950. Collins' fifth novel, initially serialized 1859–60 in Charles Dickens' magazine "All the Year Round" and in "Harper's Weekly" in the U.S., was a pioneering work of detective fiction, and also an early use of the story told from multiple viewpoints, in the same manner a case might be developed in court by the testimony of various witnesses. Modern critics consider it Collins' best novel, as did the author. There were numerous radio, television and silent film adaptations. The best-remembered "talkie" was probably the 1948 Warner Brothers adaptation starring Gig Young, Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, and Sydney Greenstreet. i-viii, 1-316, 1-360, 1-368. Reduced from $500.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
COLLINS, WILKIE. The Woman in White. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1860.
Price: US$710.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Brown embossed cloth. Spine recased with most of the original laid down. Gilt titles. State B of the ads (dated August 1860) with the correct spelling of Miss Mulock. The American edition precedes the UK. Ink inscription on front endpaper dated 1876. Some foxing in the text and staining to endpapers but overall a very nice copy of a Wilkie Collins classic, one of the first modern mysteries.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1860.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good+ First Edition. Pages throughout are clean, with possible water stains on paste downs. Previous owner pasted photos of President Washingtons inagural speech on fly leaf. Boards are in good condition, with minimal shelfwear on edges. Gilted gold lettering on spine. ; First Edition in very good condition with water stains on pastedowns but clean pages. This is Wilkie Collins fifth publication, considered a sensation novel, this mystery will have you on the edge of your seat! ; 8vo ; 260 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White. A Novel.. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1860.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860. 260 pp. + 4 pp. ads. 24 x 16 cm. Brown cloth covered boards with decorative blind stamping on boards, gilt titling to spine, and illustration of a woman on spine. List of new books at front dated August, 1860. Second state of ads in rear, with correct spelling of Mulock and list of eleven titles and ad for The Mill on the Floss on verso. Blindstamped boards lack HB monogram. Chipping and wear to spine ends, edges of boards, and along rear joint at spine, with an additional three small holes to cloth on front board. Chipped spot on upper corner of front pastedown, with penciled initials. Shallow loss to second blank page, presumably from removed previous owner's name. 11 cm closed tear along gutter of pages 15/16. Moderate toning and light foxing and staining throughout. Binding still fairly firm. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
Seller: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 8vo (9" x 5 3/4"), pp. (1-5) August, 1860 List of New Books, title, copyright, 6-260, (4) adv, illustrations throughout after drawings by John Mclenen. Original blind decorated burgundy cloth, gilt lettered & blind pictorial back-strip with the dark figure of a woman. Very good clean bright copy with wear to the head caps & bumped corners. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. H 9712 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Elephant Folio, nearly 10 lbs. Includes the Nomination and Election of Abram(sic) Lincoln, and Wilkie Collins' serial novel Woman in White and Dickens' story. Brown embossed cloth, gilt fairly bright on front, less so on spine, tiny tears to most edges, some thin tears to less than half-dozen of pages, usually at bottom. Near Very Good overall.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
COLLINS, WILKIE. The Woman in White. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1860.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BINDING of one of the first and most influential detective novels. A beautiful copy. Note: We can find no other examples of the first issue with first state ads in public auction records. After the publication of The Woman in White William Wilkie Collins earned an international reputation as a master of his craft, a pioneer of detective writing and a creator of a new genre. Born in London in 1824, he was the son of a well-known landscape painter and a former governess. When he was twelve his family spent two years in Italy and France and Collins became fluent in French and Italian and learned more "among the scenery, the pictures, and the people, than I ever learned at school." His family returned to England when Collins was fourteen and as a boarding school student he told nightly stories to appease the dormitory bully. He later recalled that "it was this brute who first awakened in me, his poor little victim, a power of which but for him I might never have been aware.When I left school I continued story telling for my own pleasure." (Collins, The Legacy of Cain) Known as a novelist, Collins was also a playwright, a journalist and in 1851 was recruited as an actor for one of Charles Dickens's amateur theater productions. Impressed with Collins's writing, Dickens took him under his wing, later crediting Collins with helping him to craft more skillful and suspenseful plot structures in A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1860-61). Their friendship proved to be one of the most important relationships of Collins's life. Collins became a regular contributor to Dickens's periodicals "Household Words" and "All the Year Round" and in 1856 Collins spent six weeks in Paris, living next door to Dickens and his family. During that time they visited theaters, music halls and book stalls where Collins found the records of French courtroom trials which inspired the plot of The Woman in White. In 1859 and 1860 The Woman in White was published in serialized form in Dickens's "All the Year Round" and concurrently in "Harper's Weekly." In mid-August of 1860 it was published in three volumes by London's Sampson Low, Son, & Co. and two weeks later in a single volume by Harper & Company in New York. This Harper's first American edition is considered more authentic because it follows the original "All the Year Round" text much more closely than the Sampson Low edition. In contrast to the significantly altered Sampson Low versions, Harper & Company reissued this edition for some years, retaining certain errors of chronology, including those pointed out by The New York Times and The Guardian. The American edition was illustrated by John McLenan, a noted caricaturist who produced images for novels by Collins and Dickens. Harper eventually revised and published a uniform edition of Collins's works on the occasion of his visit to America in 1873. (Gasson, "The Woman in White - A Chronological Study") Enthralling readers for generations, The Woman in White is a deviously plotted story of an affable art tutor, Walter Hartright, who encounters a lost woman, clad in all white, on the streets of London. He reports her to the authorities only to discover that she had escaped from an asylum. Later, Walter is hired as an art teacher for Laura, who looks stunningly similar to the woman in white he met previously. As Laura and Walter fall for one another, the mystery deepens and the story slowly unravels. The intricacies of the plot and the partial disclosures that are revealed are so engrossing that British Prime Minister William Gladstone once canceled an evening appointment to finish Collins's novel. (Luckhurst, "An introduction to The Woman in White") The Woman in White is a breathtaking narrative combining Gothic horror and psychological realism to create a new literary genre-sensational fiction-which profoundly changed the course of English popular writing. The success of Wilkie
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.