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The Woman In White
by Collins, Wilkie
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No DJ Included
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers 1st Edition) BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860.[2], 260, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with elaborate blind stamped Harper and Brothers cartouche on front and back boards. Ads state B. Miss Mulock spelled correctly. Used. Good- Condition. Our copy lacks it's spine. Some water-spotting noted. Please see our photos. States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Both pairs of chocolate brown endpapers are in good shape. Please see our photos. First American edition, second state, with first page of rear ads headed "By Miss Mulock," listing eleven titles, and verso advertising The Mill on the Floss [Gasson p. 160.] A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, a smash success upon publication. Has become rare, like the author's gift for spellbinding tales. This book is acknowledged as creating and popularizing the detective/mystery genre in Victorian Great Britain. Will ship from Oregon.
Extended Description and Notes
"The Woman in White is an intricately plotted story, organised as a chain of 'witness' statements from a wide diversity of characters designed to unravel a cunning conspiracy against innocent women by a duo of memorable aristocratic monsters, Sir Percival Glyde and his devilish companion, the Italian Count Fosco."
Synopsis
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mary Riversong Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 400CollinsWomanInWhite186
- Title
- The Woman In White
- Author
- Collins, Wilkie
- Illustrator
- McLenan, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1860
- Pages
- 260
- Size
- 6 X 9 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00
- Keywords
- Wilkie Collins, Woman in White, Gothic Novel, John McLenan, Harper & Brothers, First American Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- For Sale; Mystery; Books Into Film; Performing Arts; Anglophilia; Victorian Literature; women's Studies; Crime; PSYCHOLOGY; Adventure Fiction Romance; 19th Century Literature;
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Salem, Oregon
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