Armadale in Three Volumes Complete (Volumes 1-3) Bernhard Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors Series | Volumes 838, 839, and 840

Collins, Wilkie [William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright

Verlag: Published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, Germany First Edition Thus . 1866., 1866

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First edition thus (3 volumes in 1) bound without half titles and titles. Hard back binding in contemporary quarter camel leather, the spine divided into five panels, lettered in gilt in the second, marbled paper sides, red, yellow and beige Cockerell end papers, bookbinder's original reinforced corners being under the marble paper. 18mo. 6¼'' x 5''. Armadale was first published in 1864-66, it is the third of his four great novels of the 1860s: after The Woman in White (1859-60) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868). It first appeared as a serialisation in the Cornhill Magazine, issued in twenty monthly instalments from November 1864 to June 1866. It was serialised almost concurrently in the United States, appearing in Harper's New Monthly Magazine between December 1864 and July 1866. It first appeared in book form as a two volume literary edition in May 1866. Contains (x), 341; (vi), 350; (vi), 346 pp. Scuffing across the leather spine, edges rubbed, printed name 'Bne. d'Erlanger' and written name 'Matilde d'Erlanger' to the second front free end paper [Baroness Mary Liliane Matilda d'Erlanger, later Princess Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge (1901-1945), nicknamed "Baba"]. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 107903

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Titel: Armadale in Three Volumes Complete (Volumes ...

Verlag: Published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, Germany First Edition Thus . 1866.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1866

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage