THE WOMAN IN WHITE ... In Three Volumes ... New Edition.
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill, 1860. Octavo, three volumes, publisher's decorated purple cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed, yellow coated endpapers. First edition, first printing, second issue. An early reissue of first printing sheets with title pages marked "NEW EDITION" and a publisher's catalogue inserted in volume III dated "November 1, 1860" (most first issue copies have catalogues dated "August 1, 1860"). A celebrated thriller considered by many to be Collins's best novel. "A series of imprisonment's in country houses, a burning church, forgery for high station, and near murder combine with the author's inimitable social satire to make this work one of his most appealing" (Tymn). "It remains today one of the finest examples of its own genre" (Haycraft). Filmed a number of times, both silent and sound. [Reference: A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone volume, Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-15. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), p. 138. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-26. Bleiler (1948), p. 81. Hubin, p. 181. Parrish, p. 39-40 (first issue). Sadleir, Victorian Bibliography, p. 140-141. Wolff 1377a]. Armorial bookplate of Lord Berkeley Paget affixed to each front paste-down and his signature dated 1860 on the title pages of each volume. Volumes somewhat cocked, corners bumped and rubbed, moderate edge wear, boards scuffed and soiled, wear along joints with a few small tears, head and tail pushed and starting to fray, spines sunned, neat repair to upper joint of vol. I. with binder's ticket to rear paste-down, intermittent foxing throughout, mainly to margins. A good to very good set, internally clean. (33963). Item #33963
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