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Miss or Mrs.? And Other Stories in Outline
Wilkie Collins · London
- Author
- Wilkie Collins
- Date
- 1873
- Place
- London
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley and Son
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 12mo. 3/4 blue calf over marbled boards and matching marbled edges. Spines with 5 wide gilt enhanced compartments, 2 maroon labels
- Format
- Bookplates of Mary Perry Tuckerman and J. Oswald Blake on front pastdown and endpaper. Miss or Mrs.? is the story of an emancipated girl of fifteen was considered somewhat shocking when it first appeared as "Miss or Mrs? a Christmas Story in Twelve Scenes" in the Christmas number of The Graphic in 1871. Also included are 2 sea stories titled "Blow Up With The Brig" and "The Fatal Cradle".
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.3715
Miss or Mrs.? And Other Stories in Outline. Wilkie Collins. 1837. London: Richard Bentley and Son. 12mo.(4.5" x 6.75") 325 pp. Half navy polished leather with corners over marbled boards. Spinee with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to red leather in second and fourth compartments, fancy gilt rule bordering all other compartments. All edges marbled, tan endpapers. Two bookplates to front pastedown and first free endpaper. Edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, two tips through to boards. Scuffs to leather towards edges, boards lightly scuffed. Minor spots of foxing to first couple of leaves, all else relatively clean. A beautiful little book, perfect for decorating!
Condition
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