The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins a - 1891

NY: MODERN LIBRARY GIANT G72.;.RANDOM HOUSE. Very Good. 1944 later. Modern LIbrary Edition. HARDCOVER. 5x8" heavy. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright; GOLD SSPINE & COVER TITLES SHOWING1" RUNNING MAN INSIDE 6 SIDED "CIRCLE"..ALL ON VERY ATTRACTIVE, BRIGHT BLUE CLOTH HARDCOVERS.. VERY WHITE ENDPAPERS...Obviously printed decades afte CR (1944) date. ; 1080+ps thick pages; MANY (52) stories, classic authors .

New York: Dover Publications, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (viii) 164 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction; An Account of Some Strange Distrubances in Aungier Street - a novelette by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman by Charles Dickens; Mrs Zant and the Ghost - a novelette by Wilkie Collins; Reality or Delusion by Mrs Henry Wood; The New Pass by Amelia B. Edwards; The Body-snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson; What Was It by Fitz-James O'Brien; The Real Right Thing by Henry James; Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M. R. James; In Kropfsberg Keep by Ralph A. Cram; and The Lost Ghost by Mary E. Wilkins..

London: Magpie Books, 2004. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 528 pp. Please note, this is a somewhat large book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman; How He Left the Hotel by Louisa Baldwin; Whessoe by Nugent Barker; The Shuttered Room by E. F. Benson; An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce; Is There Anybody There by Charles Birkin; The Whisperers by Algernon Blackwood; Curfew by L. M. Boston; I'm Sure It Was No. 31 by A. M. Burrage; The Guide by Ramsey Campbell; The Limping Ghost by R. Chetwynd-Hayes; Mrs Zant and the Ghost by Wilkie Collins; The House by the Tarn by Basil Copper; In Kropfsberg Keep by Ralph A. Cram; The Ghost in All the Rooms by Daniel Defoe; The Bagman's Uncle by Charles Dickens; The Bully of Brocas Court by Arthur Conan Doyle; In… Read More

New York: Review of Reviews, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. One volume of a six volume set. Black-and-white frontispiece. Blue-gray clothcovered boards stamped in black and gilt. Very good with the spine faded, bumping to the spine ends and corners, and some soiling to the boards, the gutter has been neatly repaired.

Zsolnay Verlag, Wien, 1993..

Contents appear as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in pictorial boards displaying minimal surface/edge/wear, as shown.
In a classic English mystery first published in 1868, Rachel Verinder inherits a mystical yellow diamond sought after by a group of Hindu priests who have waited for centuries to reclaim their ancient talisman, Wilkie Collins' tale of mystery and suspicion was considered the first modern English detective novel at its time of publication.
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N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. . First thus. Facsimile Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Cover shows minor wear, pages are lightly tanned and clean. Minor annotation on the Contents page only, a few metal bookmarks on the edges.

London, Great Britain: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1900. Book. Illus. by Browne, Gordon. Very Good. Hardcover. 355 pages, 8vo. No publishing date, c.1900. Bound in original dark olive green cloth boards with maroon leather spine, gilt lettering and design along spine. Frontis in b&w. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers, spine is cocked, heavy foxing along page edges. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition..

New York: Modern Library, 1937 HBDJ, 1937, 1st MODERN LIBRARY Edition STATED ON COPYRIGHT PG, VERSO OF DUSTJACKET says Which of these 246 Outstanding books do you want ? & Back Inner DJ Flap mentions 246 Titles , VG+/VG-, AS-IS, Octavo, RED cloth stamped in silver TITLES, pp. x, 843 pgs NO ADS in Back. TINY CHIPS Small TEARS EXTREMITIES DJ NOT Affecting Titles. THICK DARK RED CLOTH Binding with Silver Gilt of man running with streamer on front cvr & Silver Gilt Titles on spine cvr has slight wear, else a VG+, bright copy in VG- dust jacket. The dustjacket's spine is Slightly tanned faded ,and few short tears (with two small tape mends on verso), else both panels are quite bright. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 IN, , topstain edge tinted RED, Btm Spne DJ tiny chips wear ,in Blue, orange & White Dustjacket of man kneeling in Orange & Blue with hands in praying pose kneeling on 1 Leg with tall shrine Tower in background , Author's two exciting detective novels, paired here together in… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall. 1898. Five volumes. Bound in contemporary three quarter green calf with five raised bands, decoration and titles in gilt to the spines. Marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Each volume with a tissue guarded frontispiece illustration by A. Jules Goodman and decorated title page. All volumes are in very good condition, the bindings sound with a little rubbing to the extremities and uniform fading of the spines. The contents with the occasional foxing spot to the margins are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Quite scarce in this form. A very attractive set of the "extra Christmas stories", previously published in the Charles Dickens edited magazine "Household Words" and "All the Year Round", presented here in a similar size and format to Dickens' better known seasonal novellas which include A Christmas Carol. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on… Read More