MOONSTONE This is 1st DETECTIVE NOVEL BY WILKIE COLLINS Written EXOTIC & MYSTERIOUS FLAVOR Oldest Full Length English Mystery Novel & Still the Best I LLUSTRATED & SIGNED IN B/W & COLOR BY William Sharp COPY # 571 1944 ON TITLE PG IN WORN SLIPCASE
1944réf. 30216AHB NODJ SLIPCASE HAS RED & WHITE ILLIUSTRATION ON FRONT OF GENTLEMAN SEATED SLIPCASE EDGE WEAR SEPARATION 1944 on Title Pg COPY # 571 LIMITED NUMBERED 1ST EDITION VG/VG- AS-IS EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR DJ Printed from Plates in Original Limited Edition of 1000 BEIGE CLOTH GREY ILLUSTRATED BOARDS Set in an aristocratic estate in Victorian England pronounced by critics as the oldest full length English mystery novel and to this day the best. Outlandish HORROR During a battle in India a sacred shrine is robbed of a jewel by a British soldier and the curse of the East Indian God follows the gem through generations of English ownership. A group of Fanatical East Indians follow the Moonstone to England where a mysterious death overtakes every heir to the fatal jewel Against the Gentle Background of an Aristocratic Estate in Victorian EnglandMoves a Story so Intriguing in Mystery Fascinating in Character Presentation & Beguiling in the Telling. During a Gory Battle in Far Off India a Sacred Shrine is entered & Robbed of a Jewel by an Adventurous British Soldier & the Curse of the East Indian God follows DORAN DOUBLEDAY & CO LIMITED EDITIONS GARDEN CITY NY hardcover
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