COLLINS, WILKIE; SHARP, WILLIAM (ILLUSTRATIONS) — The Moonstone; (Literary Guild Edition)

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1946. BCE. Hardcover. A Literary Guild, book club edition of the 1868 classic detective novel by Wilkie Collins. The story is centered around a valuable diamond (the Moonstone) which goes missing. It has been said that this work set the standard for the detective novel. Generously illustrated by William Sharp, both in full-page sepia-toned images and smaller black & white drawings. --- In full grey cloth-covered boards decorated with Sharp illustrations to front cover, gilt spine decorations and gilt titling on oval brown spine block. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A tightly-bound, unmarked, sound copy, though with faint smudges to textblock top edge and slightly rounded cover corners.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [7], 4-444 pages. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket .