Little Novels.
by COLLINS, Wilkie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto and Windus, London., 1887. First edition. Octavo. Three volumes: pp [vi], 319; [vi], 331; [vi], 303. Mid-Twentieth Century binding by Rivière of three-quarter red morocco with raised bands, gilt decorated spines, gilt rules, cloth sides. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With the burgundy leather ex libris Beeleigh Abbey bookplate of W.A. Foyle on the front pastedown of each volume. Fourteen short stories a number of which, "Mrs Zant and the Ghost", for example, have supernatural elements. Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- COLLINSW020824
- Title
- Little Novels.
- Author
- COLLINS, Wilkie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus, London.
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- ghost supernatural
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Morocco
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- Raised Band(s)
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