The Moonstone

[London:] Charles Dickens & Evans, Crystal Palace Press,, 1877. Collins's own highly annotated dramatisation of his most successful work The author's own copy, extensively annotated by him throughout and with his ownership inscription on the preserved front wrapper. It offers an extraordinary glimpse into Collins's perceptions of his most celebrated and enduring work, as well as an insight into… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931., 1931. First edition. First edition thus. 8vo. First Harper's Sealed Mystery Edition. First printing with "E-F" code on the copyright page. Light blue cloth, titles and publisher's logo stamped in black on the front cover and spine, [6], 482 pp. Light wear to spine ends, with moderate sunning to spine;… Saber más sobre este artículo

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company. Inc. , 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. William Sharp. Light Edgewear. Liight Wear. Light Soiling. Browning. Lightly Bumped Corners. Book Does Have An Old Basement Odor.

Garden City, New York, U. S. A.: International Collectors Library, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sharp, William . No Edition Or Printing Stated. The Book Has A Copyright Date Of 1944, But Was Probably Printed In The 1950'S. The Book Is Bound In Blue Faux Leather Over Boards With… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd.. Good+ with no dust jacket. [c.1940s-50s]. Hardcover. A compact Nelson Classics edition of the 1868 classic detective novel by Wilkie Collins. The story is centered around a valuable diamond (the Moonstone) which goes missing. It has been said that this work set the standard for the detective novel. --- In full… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. 1st Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good/Near Fine. Two Volumes, 4to. Vol XIX, Issue #451-to #476, December 14, 1867 to June 6, 1868, iv,620pp; Volume XX, Issue #477 to #501, June13, 1868, to November 28, 1868, iv,596pp. Beautifully bound in quarter calf over charcoal cloth covered boards. Titles in gilt on spine with gild… Saber más sobre este artículo

Middletown, Connecticut: AMerican Education Publications (c.1971) 'The Moonstone' has been called the first of the great English detective novels. its author based his character of Sergeant Cuff on an actual policeman, Inspector Whicher. Two things in particular make this novel an unusual mystery. First, it is realistic about human nature. Sergeant Cuff is not a superman who never makes mistakes.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1868., 1868. First edition. First U. S. edition. 8vo. Publisher's original light brown cloth, [2], 223, [3, blanks] pages. Frontispiece (included in pagination) and in-text illustrations throughout, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, boards with blind-ruled borders; all text block edges trimmed. minor wear to the spine ends and corners, tiny bruise… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York, New York, U. S. A.: The Limited Editions Club, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dignimont. Limited Edition No. 874 Of 1500 Signed By The Illustrator. The Book Is Bound In Blue Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Decorations. Gilt Title Within A Red Field On The Spine. The… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions (1959). First Edition thus; Collector's Edition. Illustrated by Dignimont. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Used - Near Fine, Like New condition. One inch crease at top of pages 303-314. Text block is otherwise tight and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound In full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1884. Book. Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition. Two volumes bound as one in late C19th blue glazed boards with pink cloth spine, lettered in black. Lightly sunned, faint pink stain on top of fore-edges, signature (1892) on title pages, good. Todd [972d/973], both half-titles present, with 23 titles listed facing the first title page. The volumes are dated 1868… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 223 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in light brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Mild shelfwear. Sunning and some staining to front and rear covers. Fraying to cloth along spine and edges. Age-toning and scattered foxing throughout textblock. Tearing to rear endpaper. With four pages… Saber más sobre este artículo

UK: Tinsley Brothers, 1868. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. The Moonstone A Romance by Wilkie Collins Tinsley Brothers 1868. Vols I & III first editions, vol II second edition. Fine copies. Twentieth-century quarter navy leather with blue marbled paper-covered boards. Corded spine decorated in gilt with red leather title label. Half title pages still present, as are… Saber más sobre este artículo

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2012. Limited Edition. Illustrated edition of Collins's 1868 novel, first serialized in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, followed immediately by a three-decked published by Tinsley Brothers. Centered around a large yellow diamond, stolen by an Englishman during the Anglo-Mysore War from an Indian religious idol and brought to London. Bad luck has… Saber más sobre este artículo

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1944. Hardcover. Good. 1944. First Thus. 430 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some… Saber más sobre este artículo

Staining, tears, discoloration. Not great, but readable.

Collins, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1953. This Edition. 448 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Light thumb marking and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Penguin Books Ltd, 1966-05-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1868, 1868. First edition. First U. S. edition. 8vo. Publisher's original dark brown cloth, [2], 223, [3, blanks] pages. Frontispiece (included in pagination) and in-text illustrations throughout. titles stamped in gilt on the spine, boards with blind-ruled borders; all text block edges trimmed. minor wear to the spine ends and corners, internally clean… Saber más sobre este artículo