From ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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About this Item
No Name By Wilkie Collins, Complete in Three Volumes, Sampson Low, Son & Co., London, 1862, coral blind cloth, 8 x 5 , 8vo. In fair condition. Ex-library of Mudie Select Library, labels removed from front boards. Bindings are quite worn with rippling, moderate soiling, moderate wear to extremities and slanted spines. Joints are splitting at cloth with fraying at spine ends. Ends crushed from shelf wear. Numerous instances of scuffing to surface of cloth. Dust soiling to top fore-edge. Ex-Libris Sum Caroli Whibley on pastedowns provenance of literary journalist Charles Whibley (1859-1930). Ex-Libris of Stanley Austin on pastedown of Volume III. Internally good with light toning and minor instances of foxing. Free of known marginalia. Bindings slanted but intact. Please see photos. A true Victorian triple-decker set, a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the 19th-century. Three-volume novels quickly disappeared after 1894, when both Mudie s (this copy is ex-library of Mudie s) and W.H. Smith stopped purchasing them over price issues. A novel divided into three parts would create a demand amongst circulating libraries. Part I profits would be used to pay for printing costs of the later parts. Three-volume novels were typically printed in editions of under 1,000 copies, which were often pre-sold to subscription libraries before the book was even published. No Name was originally serialized in Charles Dickens magazine All the Year Round before book publication. This is the true, very scarce 1st edition. The novel that immediately followed The Woman in White. Provenance of Charles Whibley (1859-1930) an English literary journalist and author. He supported James Abbott McNeill Whistler (they had married sisters). His portrait hangs at Jesus College and a sketch is on exhibition at National Portrait Gallery in London. Seller Inventory # RAREB1862DQRZ
Bibliographic Details
Title: No Name
Publisher: Sampson Low, Son, & Co.
Publication Date: 1862
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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Chosen as Publishers Weekly's 2023 Bookstore of the Year! Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore. ... A buyer is eligible to receive a full refund if a book is not in the condition described.
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