Author: COLLINS, WILKIE (EDITED & INTRODUCED BY IRA NADEL)
Title: Iolani, or Tahiti as it was - A Romance
Description: New Jersey, Princeton University Press. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 069103446X) Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 5.5 x 8.5"; 200pp with 37pp introduction; Bibliographical Description, Notes on the Text to front and Textual Notes & Explanatory Notes to back; green cloth with gilt and bronze with pictorial dustwrapper both in fine condition; " Written 150 years ago, and presumed lost for nearly a century, Wilkie Collins's earliest novel now appears in print for the first time. Iolani is a sensational romance-- a tale of terror and suspense, bravery and betrayal, set against the lush backdrop of Tahiti" Collins wrote the book as a young man in the early 1840s, twenty years before Moonstone and the Woman in White made his name among Victorian novelists;. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: 069103446x Lost Manuscript Romance Terror Suspense Tahiti Novel


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