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The Law and the Lady
by Wilkie Collins
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, London, 1913. Later Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo - between 6¾ - 7¾" tall. vii + 429pp. Rear hinge cracking. Main text block remains firmly bound. Spine cocked and worn with some loss. Joints splitting at extremities. Scattered foxing throughout. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Edges foxed and browned. Rear end paper removed. Tear to final remaining page. Covers marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; 19th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23599. .
Synopsis
Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock: the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife. Convinced of his innocence, Valeria is prepared to do anything to clear her husband's name, and in so doing upturns the conventions of polite nineteenth century society.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23599
- Title
- The Law and the Lady
- Author
- Wilkie Collins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- BZDB243 C19th, fiction Fiction; 19th century; Wilkie Collins The Law and the Lady
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
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Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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