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Lot 72
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$455
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Lot Description
COLLINS, Willkie (1824-1889). The Moonstone. A Romance. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868.
Tall 8vo. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine (extremities faded). Provenance: John Talbot Gernon (morocco bookplate).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of one of the first English detective novels. Sadleir 598 (first English edition). A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
This lot is located in Chicago.