Author: Wilkie Collins; William Baker; Andrew Gasson; Graham Law; Paul Lewis
Title: The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters
Description: London, Pickering & Chatto, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated four volume set of the letters of English novelist and playwright William Wilkie Collins. Complete in four volumes. First edition. File copy, first printing of May 2005. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated complete. The collected letters of William Wilkie Collins, an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for the mystery and early sensation novel The Woman in White (1860), and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. Volume one contains an introduction, chronology, editorial principles, and letters from 1831 to 1864. Volume two contains letters from 1865 to 1873. Volume three contains letters from 1874 to 1883. Volume four contains letters from 1884 to 1889, with letter fragments from unknown dates, and a detailed index. Edited by William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law, and Paul Lewis, British literary scholars. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. With file copy bookplate to the front endpaper. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .
Keywords: Public Face Collins Letters Face Not Stated
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Title: The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters
Description: London, Pickering & Chatto, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated four volume set of the letters of English novelist and playwright William Wilkie Collins. Complete in four volumes. First edition. File copy, first printing of May 2005. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated complete. The collected letters of William Wilkie Collins, an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for the mystery and early sensation novel The Woman in White (1860), and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. Volume one contains an introduction, chronology, editorial principles, and letters from 1831 to 1864. Volume two contains letters from 1865 to 1873. Volume three contains letters from 1874 to 1883. Volume four contains letters from 1884 to 1889, with letter fragments from unknown dates, and a detailed index. Edited by William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law, and Paul Lewis, British literary scholars. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. With file copy bookplate to the front endpaper. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .
Keywords: Public Face Collins Letters Face Not Stated
Price: GBP 295.00 = appr. US$ 421.26 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 958T39
- Book number: 958T39
See more books from our catalog: Literary Criticism