London: Folio Society 1956 Hardcover book in dustjacket , first edition in Folio , 519 pages illustrated with lithographs by Lynton Lamb. Bound in blue cloth , gilt title square and lettering to spine. . A Very Good copy in Very Good dustjacket. Previous owner's attractive bookplate to front pastedown. No other inscriptions. Jacket price clipped with very light wear creasing to one corner. pictures available.

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The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

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Bookseller: David Ford Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 37672
Title: The Woman in White
Author: Collins, Wilkie:
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Folio Society 1956
Bookseller catalogs: Folio Society;

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