Collins, Wilkie

The Moonstone. A Novel...with many illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868, first American edition, double column, advertisement leaves for Harper's Library of Select Novels and works by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik etc. at the beginning, original brown sand-grain cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine, preserved in folding cloth box, slightly browned, spine slightly faded, some edge-wear, possible repair to upper hinge; with Tauchnitz Edition, Leipzig, 1918, reprint, original wrappers, preserved in black cloth box, covers slightly browned with some short tears; Man and Wife. With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870, first American edition, double column, 4 pp. advertisements at the end, original purple cloth, covers decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, spine slightly faded; 8vo (4)

First American edition (published in the same year) of  the author's classic novel, "probably the finest detective story ever written" (Dorothy L. Sayers).