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The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins
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The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins Hardcover - 1993

by Catherine Peters

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Princeton University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Hardcover. In near fine condition with a fine dust jacket, crease on the front flap. 502 pages with bibliography and index. From the dust jacket: "In this major biography, Catherine Preters explores the complicated life of Wilkie Collins, the greatest of the Victorian "Sensation" novelists... on the surface he was charming, unpretentious and extremely good company. Beneath this facade, however, he was a complex and haunted man..."
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  • Title The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins
  • Author Catherine Peters
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 524
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
  • Date 1993
  • Bookseller's Inventory # E19207
  • ISBN 9780691033921 / 0691033927
  • Weight 2.06 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7.75 x 1.52 in (25.40 x 19.69 x 3.86 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93015824
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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