In Silk Attire by William Black - 1893

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1892. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 318 pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth with title on spine in gilt. Binding has moderate spotting. Bumping at headcap/foot of spine. Inside front and rear covers are toned. Text has occasional foxing.

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1890. New Edition. 462 pages. No dust jacket. Red illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Half title page is missing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Harper & Brothers, 1877. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. In green cloth. Light wear to cloth. hinges are sound..

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1893. Book. Good. Hardcover. New and Revised Edition. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. Rubbed at foot of spine, a few light marks, good. .

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The In Silk Attire; A Novel.

Paperback / softback. New.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

LONDON AND GLASGOW: COLLINS' CLEAR TYPE PRESS. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Circa 1910 - ink inscription to front free endpaper dated 1910. Boards rubbed and marked, spine slightly sunned, some pages mellowed otherwise clean throughout. Good. 0

N.Y.: John W. Lovell Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Worthington. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original brown cloth decorated lavishly in black, with gilt lettering cover and spine, on boards. This is the last of the seven matching volumes to be listed. With the previous owner's name is the date, Xmas 1888. First published in 1870. Popularized as a dime novel frequenjtly sold on trains as part of the American movement westward. Book is cocked. 289 pp..

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883. Book. Good. Hardcover. Eighth Edition, Low's Standard Novels. Original scarlet cloth on bevelled boards, lettered and elaborately decorated in black and gilt. Top edge of front board and spine lightly sunned, a little faint foxing, good+. Black's third novel and the first (after being revised) which he allowed to be added to the uniform edition of 1892. The two preceding novels -- James Merle (1864) & Love or Marriage (1868) -- were effectively suppressed. This edition retains the original text. The hero is torn between the actress he loves and the dying girl to whom he is promised..