THE WOMAN IN WHITE BY WILKIE COLLINS EVERYMAN'S Library #464 IN B/W & GREEN ILLUSTRATED DUSTJACKET OF WOMAN OUTSIDE WALKING WEARING BLACK CLOAK looking at Cross Statue ABOVE GROUND GRAVE by Paul Hogarth , 1969 , CRIME , FINEST MYSTERY THRILLER NOVEL,

Wilkie COLLINS. ( 1824-1889 ) BURIED IN LONDON, Clipped DJ , But price Intact of 95P NET UK Price WITH X AT BTM, PLAIN BLUE ENDPAPERS

Published by EVERYMAN'S Library London: J M Dent & Sons PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT ALDINE PRESS, 1969

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HBDJ, 1969, FRONT OF DJ HAS SMALL CHIP TO TOP RIGHT, LARGER FORMAT, RUB WEAR TINY TEARS TO EXTREMITIES OF DJ, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/VG-. 12mo. Nice 1969 reprint of the Everyman's Library edition of Collins's classic. In VG internal order. Light wear only to smart green boards with bright gilt titling to spine. Clipped d/j marked, dulled and cockled with minor loss CHIP to front TOP OF DUSTJACKET. 12mo. 569pp + 8pp publisher's catalogue. 569 PGS, ON BACK OF DJ SAYS FEW OF 500 AUTHORS, CRIME , FINEST MYSTERY THRILLER NOVEL, Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, encounters and gives directions to a mysterious and distressed woman dressed entirely in white, lost in London; he is later informed by policemen that she has escaped from an asylum. VICTORIAN ,famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism. Seller Inventory # 29775

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE WOMAN IN WHITE BY WILKIE COLLINS ...

Publisher: EVERYMAN'S Library London: J M Dent & Sons PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT ALDINE PRESS

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good