Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 6 monthly parts (all published). Engraved portrait of Dickens by J.H. Baker, vignette title-page and 12 engraved plates by Samuel Luke Fildes. 8vo, original blue-green pictorial wrappers, part 1 with tape repair on front wrapper and back wrapper detached, backstrips with a few chips, heaviest to part 1; minor foxing; slipcased, faded. London: Chapman & Hall, April-September, 1870
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first edition in original monthly parts. The earliest issue of part 6 with the "eighteenpence" slip pasted over the one shilling price on the front wrapper. The "Edwin Drood Advertiser" is present in each part, as well as all of the inserted advertisements, including the "Cork Hats" slip in part 2. Dickens' last novel, left unfinished upon his death. Eckel, pp.96-98; Hatton & Cleaver, pp.373-84.