Wilkie Collins: A Biography by Kenneth Robinson - 1974-11-25

Davis-Poynter, 1974. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Davis-Poynter, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Davis-Poynter, 1974. hardcover. very good(-)/very good(-). Frontis. 8vo, purple cloth, d.w. lightly soiled, d.w. lacking bottom margin of front inner flap, several pages lightly dampstained in margins. London: David-Poynter, (1974).<br/><br/>

Davis-Poynter, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Davis Poynter, ( 1974 ). First edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. 8vo, 315 pages, purple cloth; about fine dj: 2d state with original price clipped. Includes bibliographies of Collins and books about Collins

Davis-Poynter. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0706701372 . Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright dustjacket, clipped & repriced at £6.00 by the publishers. Appears little used. 316 pages, portrait frontispiece, bibliography, index .

London: Davis-Poynter, 1974. 315p., dj.

London England: Davis - Poynter. Hardback. Wilkie Collins. A Biography. Slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. Price clipped to D/J. For many years the life of Wilkie Collins, the originator of the English detective story (and indeed one of the best-selling authors of a demanding literate era), remaind largely unchronicled. Dying, aged sixty-five in 1889, addicted to the opium he used as a pallative to a chronic and painful illness, Collins remained throughout his intriguing life shy of publicity and distrustful of fame. Posterity has remained incurious, while his lesser and greater contemporaries have inspired biographies by the score. The son of a successful landscape painter, an early apprentiseship first to the tea trade and later as a barrister left Collins hardened in one ambition - to devote his life to writing. Unconventional (to say the least) in his domestic life; a lifelong friend of Dickens and of most of the literary and artistic figures of the day; he wrote more than thirty books and a dozen… Read More

London : Davis-Poynter, 1974. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 3-315 p., plate : facsim., port. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Collins, Wilkie 1824-1889. Biography.