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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three novels bound in one. Half red leather with gilt-stamped "Novels" on spine with bands, marble papercovered boards. About very good with gutter cracked, pages modestly foxed, small pen mark on front fly, leather dry and chipped on ends, edges worn. *The Claverings*: 1870. 211pp. Illustrated. Later issue of the first American edition. The First American editions have "1866" on title page even though it wasn't actually published until 1867. First serialized in the *Cornhill Magazine* from February 1866 to May 1867. This was the fourth and last of his novels published in the magazine. *Won - Not Wooed*: 1871. 131pp. First American edition. Usually titled: *Not Wooed But Won*, first serialized in the magazine *Chambers's Journal*. *The Race for Wealth*: 1866. 102pp. First American edition, published in the same year as the London edition. First published serially in a magazine. Mrs. Riddell was co-proprietor and editor of the *St. James's Magazine*.