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Wilkie Collins - A Biography
by Robinson, Kenneth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head 19161951, 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. London: The Bodley Head, 19161951. First Edition. Very Good/Fair. First Edition in original dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with dark blue title box, gold lettering on spine. Boards are clean, with some fading to edges. No fraying. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper and back top edge of frontispiece. Color frontispiece Vanity Fair Cartoon from February 1872 (portrait of Wilkie Collins) as frontispiece. Illustrated with photographs. 348 pages with index. Illustrated dust jacket has chips and some creasing, price clip at lower corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025397
- Title
- Wilkie Collins - A Biography
- Author
- Robinson, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head 19161951
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, WILKIE COLLINS, KENNETH ROBINSON, FIRST EDITION
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