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My Miscellanies.
by COLLINS, Wilkie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co.,, 1863. In the original cloth First edition of Collins's collection of essays and short stories, initially appearing between 1856 and 1861 in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All The Year Round. Two volumes, octavo. Original green diagonal-wide-bead-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt. W. H. Smith blindstamp to front free endpaper (as with the Sadleir copy), bookplate to front pastedowns of Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher (1881-1963), son of the Governor of Windsor Castle. Worn at extremities, loss to top corner of front cover of vol. I, some foxing. A good copy. Gasson pp. 111-112; Parrish pp. 51-53; Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction, 599; Wolff 1369.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144342
- Title
- My Miscellanies.
- Author
- COLLINS, Wilkie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co.,
- Date Published
- 1863
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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