Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014
ISBN 10: 0062227319 ISBN 13: 9780062227317
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Independently published, 2019
ISBN 10: 1795318988 ISBN 13: 9781795318983
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Les prairies numriques, 2019
ISBN 10: 2953652396 ISBN 13: 9782953652390
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A tan to the page edges/pages . Minor shelf wear.
Verlag: London, Penguin Books, 1983
ISBN 10: 0140430148 ISBN 13: 9780140430141
Anbieter: Antiquariat Buchhandel Daniel Viertel, Diez, Deutschland
8°, Softcover/Paperback. Zustand: Gut. (Penguin Classics). 527 pp, age and paper related tanned pages, gebraucht, gut, good copy, slight traces of use, 8506 ISBN 9780140430141 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 244.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Aug 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 1022341219 ISBN 13: 9781022341210
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This play is an adaptation of the novel The Moonstone, written by Wilkie Collins in 1868. It is a thrilling detective mystery that involves a missing diamond, a cursed Indian princess, and a group of eccentric characters. The play brings the story to life on stage and is sure to captivate audiences with its suspenseful plot twists.
Verlag: E-Artnow Dez 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 8026891090 ISBN 13: 9788026891093
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Books On Demand, British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241064091 ISBN 13: 9781241064099
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Title: The Moonstone: a dramatic story, in three acts. Altered from the novel for performance on the stage. By Wilkie Collins.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++ British Library Collins, Wilkie; 1877. ff. 88 ; 8º. 11779.bb.38.
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Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Jul 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1020624450 ISBN 13: 9781020624452
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Regents Of Univ Of Mi, Scholarly Publishing Office Sep 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1425555101 ISBN 13: 9781425555108
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: New York: Harper & Brothers. 1868, 1868
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
4pp ads preceding front., illus, text in two columns; some marking to text, especially pp 84-85. Orig. purple-brown cloth; a few small discreet repairs, cloth sl. lifting in places, a little marked. First published in All the Year Round, 1859-60, then as a three-decker. This is the first U.S. book edition, having previously been published in Harper's Weekly, with the illustrations by John McLenan. Collins's great mystery-sensation novel - and one of the earliest detective stories.
Verlag: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1868
Anbieter: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. First US Edition. 223pp. Brown cloth stamped in blind on the front and in gold on the spine. Illustrated with wood engravings. A few speckles to front panel, small spot to bottom edge, previous owner's name in pencil on front pastedown endpaper, mild toning and soiling to text block. A solid very good copy. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. In Hubin, 1994, p. 180. ; Octavo.
Verlag: [London:] Charles Dickens & Evans, Crystal Palace Press, 1877, 1877
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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The author's own copy, extensively annotated by him throughout and with his ownership inscription on the preserved front wrapper. It offers an extraordinary glimpse into Collins's perceptions of his most celebrated and enduring work, as well as an insight into his working process. Such material by one of the major Victorian novelists rarely appears on the market. The Moonstone was originally serialized in Charles Dickens's All the Year Round magazine between 4 January and 8 August 1868 and published in book form in July 1868, just before the final four serial numbers appeared. The first edition was an immediate hit and sold out within two months. The stage version was performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre from 17 September to 17 November 1877. The production failed to match the novel's success, and both Henry Neville (playing Franklin Blake) and Laura Seymour (playing Miss Clack) left the cast before the end of the run. Had the stage production won over the critics, it is possible the changes in these closely written annotations would have been incorporated into a final version for trade printing. Collins simplified the novel for the stage, omitting the characters of Rosanna Spearman, Ezra Jennings, and the Indian jugglers (three Hindu Brahmins in disguise, determined to recover the diamond at the centre of the plot). He also restricted the action to a 24-hour period at Rachel Verinder's country house in Kent. This copy shows the author's creative energy and working process, with his methods for restructuring consistent and clear throughout. Collins routinely took part in dramatic performances and had a keen understanding of the process from drafting to acting. "Collins'sfascination with the stage, encouraged by his association withDickens'samateur acting company, led him to write his first play,The Lighthouse(1855), given several performances at Tavistock House,Dickens'shome, and professionally produced, with great success, at the Olympic Theatre in 1857" (ODNB). The annotations are extensive, on some pages filling the margins. They range from relatively minor edits (striking through sentences, altering single words, sometimes multiple times, and eliding a couple of lines with his distinctive box blocking) to substantive revisions of entire scenes. Collins altered the structure from three to four acts, requiring a major revision at the head of page 52, where he begins the new Act III, functionally rewriting the end of Act II and titling it "The Third Act" at the upper margin, adding: "The time has advanced by a few minutes only. Franklin is discovered seated, on the night. Betteredge and Cuff stand near him". The dialogue is then further altered to reflect these changes in timing, with some passages and stage direction fully excised. Collins completely reworked pages 57-59 and 83-85, with new dialogue and direction in his hand on the blank versos of the text leaves. The nearest comparable items to this are a partial manuscript for the printed work, offered at auction but not sold in 1972, and a single manuscript leaf of the same in 2017. The privately printed edition is anyway uncommon: six copies have been traced at auction since 1915 and two confirmed copies are known institutionally in the UK. Parrish and Miller give no estimate of the print run, though it is unlikely to have been large. The copy is finely bound by London bookbinder Samuel Tout and preserves the original paper wrappers. From 1868 through to 1879, Tout (1841-1902) operated in Nassau Street in Soho, London. He then worked in a bindery in Whitechapel with William Coward, continuing on his own after 1880 and swiftly becoming a highly regarded binder. Tout was also a member of the early staff of Karslake's Hampstead Bindery, which opened in Charing Cross in 1898. Parrish and Miller, p. 75. Octavo (182 x 120 mm). Near-contemporary pebble-grain half morocco by Tout, marbled paper-covered boards, spine with semi-raised bands in six compartments, second and third gilt lettered, others with gilt rules, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Original plain blue wrappers bound in, the front wrapper signed with Collins's name and Portman Square address. Housed in a custom red morocco solander box. Pp. 88, printed recto only, extensively annotated by the author in sepia ink and pencil, a couple of annotations in a second unidentified hand, leaf of annotated note paper tipped in between p. 33 and p. 34, p. 84 excised with a replacement leaf of note paper pasted to verso of p. 83. Marginal chip affecting a few letters of manuscript annotation to p. 83, several, primarily marginal, closed tears sometime repaired with tape slightly affecting annotations, final leaf backed with paper stabilizing tears, rear wrapper backed with paper stabilizing some loss. Extremities gently rubbed, slight wear to corners, handsomely bound, soiling and chipping to front wrapper, some minor fingersoiling and offsetting to contents, a very good copy.