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[London]: Charles Dickens & Evans, Crystal Palace Press, 1877 . First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A beautiful example of Wilkie Collins's very scarce stage adaptation of 'The Moonstone', a work never widely published, and 'privately printed for the convenience of the Author'. In a beautiful Riviere solander box. A very scarce work, adapted by Collins himself - with the aid of Charles Dickens - from his enormously successful 1868 novel.In the publisher's original paper wraps.The work is held in a cloth chemise and housed in a beautiful signed half crushed morocco solander box by Riviere.Wilkie Collins's important early detective novel was an impressive work which set many of the ground rules for the modern mystery genre. It was initially serialised in Charles Dickens's periodical 'All the Year Round'.In an effort to capitalise on the success of his work, Collins adapted the novel for the stage, with the title page identifying that 'This Play is not published.…