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Collins, Wilkie
The Woman in White
Publisher: Sampson Low, London;
Date of Publication: 1861
Stock Code: 4096
FIRST EDITION. viii, 494, [1] advertisements, [1]. Frontispiece photographic portrait pasted to roundel, facsimile signature below, with tissue guard; engraved title and letterpress title. Publisher's blind-embossed purple cloth with gilt title panel to spine; primrose yellow endpapers. Publisher's prospectus for "The Twelve Great Battles of England" tipped in to ffep; retailer's ticket to rear pastedown. Spine and board edges lightly sunned. Minor crease to spine; edges rubbed with minor wear at corners and spine tips. Inner hinges weak but holding; gatherings at F and G loose. Light foxing to frontis; signature of former owner Anne Bamber to verso. The first one-volume edition of Collins' classic work of detective fiction, with 2 page preface by Collins. Rare, particularly in original publisher's cloth. Sold