Wilkie Collins A Biography by Robinson Kenneth - 1951

New York: MacMillan. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgwear. Spine weak and cracked ; B&W and color Illustrations; 348 pages .

New York: Macmillan, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. 30900 shelf. indexed. Clean. Full study of the author of The Moonstone color frontis, b/w repros. very good+, no dj, silver-stamped deep blue cloth 348 pgs

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

GB: Bodley Head, 1951. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Minor spotting. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG+ DW.

London: The Bodley Head, 1951. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. Hardback. 348 pp Illustrated Very Good condition (a little foxing on edge of page block) in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket ( small edge nibbles). No inscriptions.

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

NY.: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Charcoal blue boards with the titles in silver gilt to the spine. The previous owners name is written neatly on the front inside epp. The fullcolour frontisis of the Master of Sensation from a Vanity Fair Cartoon of February 1872.The bottom of the boards show the lightest of shelf wear.. First Edition First Printing. Linen Hard Cover. Near Fine/No D.J.. Illus. by Frontis By Adriano Cecioni well Illustrated.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Bodley Head, 1951. First Edition, First Impression . Cloth Bound Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1951 First edition, first impression. Size octavo, 348 pages including index. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles on black panel to the spine, top page edge dyed blue, with dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends rubbed, bottom edge of spine slightly faded, a few spots to first and last few pages else contents clean. Dust jacket condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly chipped, a couple of minor creases, not price clipped.

London: Davis-Poynter, 1974. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine, purple boards, gilt spine titles, in VG, clipped printed wraps. half title, portrait frontis, [12], 13-315 pp, first published in 1951. (216*136 mm).

The Bodley Head, 1951. Some marks on ffep and front paste-down otherwise unmarked, unclipped dustjacket worn and torn, light foxing, 348pp, G/G.. 1st UK Edition. Cloth. Good/Good.