[Rarebooks] FS: First American Edition of Wilkie Collins THE MOONSTONE, a Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone

[Charles Agvent]

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               COLLINS,  Wilkie.  THE  MOONSTONE. A  NOVEL.  New  York:
          Harper  &  Brothers 1868. First Edition. The  First  American
          Edition  and the First Illustrated Edition (the first  London
          edition  was published in the same year in three volumes  and
          was not  illustrated)  in publisher's brown cloth  with  gilt
          lettering  on  the spine. Inspired by the case  of  Constance
          Kent, who  murdered  her younger brother in 1860, and by  the
          Northumberland  Street murder. A Haycraft/Queen  Cornerstone,
          T. S. Eliot  called  this  book  the first  and  best  modern
          detective  story. The First British Edition recently sold  at
          Sotheby's  for  more than $125,000.  Fine, bright, clean copy,
          and uncommon as such.                                $1500.00

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