No Name

  • London: Sampson Low, Son Co, 1862
By Collins, Wilkie
London: Sampson Low, Son Co, 1862. First edition. Very good in publisher's red cloth stamped in blind, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, light to moderate rubbing to extremities, fraying to spine tips, minor dust soiling, front hinge strengthened in vol. I, occasional foxing and smudging, abrasions to front pastedowns with some paper loss to vol. III, few small nicks to front flyleaves.. Triple decker first edition in book form in the original cloth.

"No Name is [] an unsettling drama centered on a powerful woman . . . in which [Collins] challenges Victorian legal and cultural injustices, almost always from a strongly feminist viewpoint - although he firmly resisted being labeled a feminist." Gottlieb, Near-Death Experiences and Others (2018).

8vo. 3 vols. ix, [i], 339pp., [1]; [iv], 363pp., [1]; [ii], 408pp. Half-titles in volumes I and II, as called for. Sadleir, Excursions 141. Parrish 45-46.

Details

Title

No Name

Author

Collins, Wilkie

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Sampson Low, Son Co: London

Date

1862

Edition

First edition


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