Set Reminder2023-08-17 12:00:002023-08-17 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Firsts: The Library of Robin and Kathryn Smiley https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/firsts-the-library-of-robin-and-kathryn-smiley-21926 We are pleased to announce the sale of Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine's co-Publishers and Editors, Robin and Kathryn Smiley's collection of modern firsts of literature, mystery & detective fiction, and western literature.
Prices RealizedPotter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
COLLINS, Wilkie (1824-1889). The Woman in White. A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Collins?s mystery-detective novel, preceding the English edition by one month (but probably both were published in the last half of August). It was later adapted into film in 1948 directed by Peter Godfrey. Parrish, pp. 40-41; Sadleir 605; Wolff 1377b. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.