(The Law & Lady.) La Piste du Crime. Traduit de L’Anglais avec L’Autorisation de L’Auteur par Camille de Cendrey. 2 vols.
COLLINS, William Wilkie. Half titles. Contemp. half black calf. A good-plus copy. See Parrish & Miller for The First English edition in 3 vols, 1875, following serialisation in The Graphic. This is the first French edition. Scottish-based detective story with a female 'sleuth' and courtroom elements influenced by the recent Madeleine Smith trial.- $216
- $216
Heart and Science. A story of the present time. New edn.
COLLINS, William Wilkie. Bound without half title. Contemp. blue binders' cloth; Ellel Grange blocked on front board. See Parrish & Miller for the first edition in three volumes, 1883. Collins's didactic antivivisection novel. The first one volume edition was 1884; the edition here is in the smaller format.- $94
- $94
Basil.
COLLINS, William Wilkie. Orig. red cloth, blocked and lettered in sliver. v.g. Not recorded on Copac. The text only, without the preliminary 'Letter of Dedication'. The publisher is a mystery, as no 'Morning Herald' was published in London at this date. Three other titles are recorded, all 1899: Harry Lorrequer, Poe's Tales and The Antiquary. Other sources record Frankenstein and Contarini Fleming also by this publisher.- $109
- $109
A Portrait of Wilkie Collins: Vanity Fair. Feb. 3, 1872. Men of the Day, no. 39. “The Novelist who invented Sensation.”
(COLLINS, William Wilkie) VANITY FAIR. Chromolithograth. 20thC mount, frame & glaze. Approx. 33 x 21cm. With the accompanying Vanity Fair description of Collins pasted to the back board. 'Mr Wilkie Collins. recognised the rudeness of the contrivances hitherto in vogue, and by a far more artistic and conscientious treatment than had yet been attempted, he essayed to revive once more the interest in horrors. He is entitled to be called the novelist who invented Sensation'. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT.- $181
- $181
The Works. 30 vols.
COLLINS, William Wilkie. Front. port., plates. Orig. blue-green cloth, spines blocked in blind, lettered in gilt; occasional sl. marking. v.g. The superior printing on good-quality paper. A nice set. The binding is in the plainer style with spine lettered: WILKIE COLLINS/(rule)/(VOL. I/(TITLE).- $2,381
- $2,381
The New Magdalen.
COLLINS, William Wilkie. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Finely bound in half brown crushed morocco, marbled boards; spines sl. faded. t.e.g. v.g. attractive copy. Parrish & Miller p91. The story of Mercy Merrick, a prostitute who struggles against prejudice to return to respectability and is eventually 'rescued' by - and married to - the Reverend Julian Gray.- $1,732
- $1,732
Engraved Caricature Portrait, by Adriano Cecioni, for Vanity Fair.
COLLINS, William Wilkie. 36 X 23cm. 'Men of the Day, No. 39, The Novelist who invented Sensation', Feb 3, 1872. WITH: following page of text written by the editor of Vanity Fair, Thomas Gibson Bowles. 'His best work is perhaps Armadale, and his special merit is that he treats a labyrinthine story in an apparently simple manner, and that the language in which he writes is plain English.'- $173
- $173
Portrait. Larger format Carte de Visite Photograph of WWC.
COLLINS, William Wilkie. 17 x 10.5cm. Oval head and shoulders portrait, Collins looking half right and away from the camera, in check shirt and fur coat. Napoleon Sarony, 1821-1896, established his own independent business at 37, Union Square in 1867. WWC dedicated Heart and Science to Sarony in 1883.- $649
- $649