London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. Hard Cover. First Edition. Volume I only. Previous owner's bookplates attached to front paste-down and ffep. . 1/2 red leather on red cloth boards. Bottom corners of front and rear boards are lightly bumped...
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1857. Full Leather. Tauchnitz Edition. First published a year prior, this being the Tauschnitz edition of Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Secret, a sensational novel about the eventual discovery of the protagonist’s lower-class heritage. Scattered foxing. Rear hinge.....
![Item #279851 HIDE AND SEEK [2 VOLUMES BOUND TOGETHER]. Wilkie Collins](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/279851.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1501188479)
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1856. Quarter Leather. Enormously prolific and influential, Wilkie Collins produced “sensational novels”, as well the The Moonstone, generally regarded as the first modern detective novel. This Tauchnitz edition was issued two years after the first trade edition;.....