The Moonstone (complete in Volumes 19 & 20 of All The Year Round 1868)

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2 volumes bound as one. From parts 454 to 476 (pages 73 Jan 4th to June 6th 1868 (ending on page 620) and then new title page and 4 page index followed by parts 477 June 13th (with new pagination starting at page 1) to page 201 (part 485) ending the complete work "The Moonstone" followed by all the parts ending the volume 20 to page 596 and then the first parts of volume 21 (or part 1 of the NEW series beginning December 5th 1868 to page 96 December 26th, all printed double column, each week has a title page and 24 pages, some foxing to prelims up to page 4 and the last 3 leaves at the rear. small split noticed at gutter and some remains of the blue wrappers seen in the gutters also. all bound in a contemporary two-tone green cloth, gilt tiles and date on the spine. Other contributors having articles and stories but good if not great writers are all part of this series. NOTE on the main story here: T. S. Eliot called "The Moonstone". ".the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe". Dorothy Sayers said of it, "it is probably the very finest detective story ever written." First ever printing in this Charles Dickens edited magazine. N° de ref. del artículo A842

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