DICKENS CHARLES The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 6 monthly parts (all published). Vignette title-page, portrait, and 12 engraved plates by Samuel Luke Fildes. 8vo, original blue-green pictorial wrappers, backstrips chipped with repairs to first and last issues, small chips and tears to wrappers; plates generally clean; cloth chemise and full navy morocco gilt slipcase, spine evenly toned. 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. With Edwin Drood Advertiser in each. Dickens' last novel, left unfinished upon his death. Eckel, pp. 96-98; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 373-84.