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Man And Wife
by Collins, Wilkie
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/None Issued
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
Item Price
SGD 275.92SGD 165.55
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About This Item
MAN AND WIFE. Used. Good Condition. Antiquarian. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1871 Printing Thus. A novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Used. Good Condition. No DJ as issued. Black boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Paper covering split at spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes..
Extended Description and Notes
Used. Good Condition. Antiquarian. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1871 Printing Thus. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Used. Good Condition. No DJ as issued. Black boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Paper covering split at spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. An important, early novel dealing with domestic violence, and marriage laws in Ireland and Scotland. RARE/SCARCE .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mary Riversong Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30WilkieCollinsman2ndcopy
- Title
- Man And Wife
- Author
- Collins, Wilkie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1871
- Pages
- 239
- Size
- 6 1/8 X 9 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Wilkie Collins, Gothic Novel, History of England, History of Ireland, Social Sciences, Harper & Brothers, Social Sciences, Scotland, Victorian Era
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anglophilia; Law; Harper & Brothers; 19th Century Literature;
Terms of Sale
Mary Riversong Books
30 day return policy: Customer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Mary Riversong Books
Biblio member since 2017
Salem, Oregon
About Mary Riversong Books
Mary Riversong Books. Online sales. Used Vintage First Editions. 19th and 20th Century Literature. Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Action & Adventure
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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