"Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying." |
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Title The Moonstone. |
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Published, Date Tinsley Brothers, London,1868. |
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Description First edition, 8vo., 3 vols., all with half-titles, bound by Stikeman & Co. in brown half morocco ruled in gilt over marbled boards, spines ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, very occasional finger soiling, but overall a fine set. |
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Note A handsomely-bound first edition of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, praised by T. S. Eliot (in his introduction to the World's Classics edition) as "The first, the longest and the best of modern detective stories." |
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References Graham & Greene 74; Sadleir 598; Parrish, pp. 51-53. |
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Stock Number 74567 |
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