DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 6 monthly parts (all published). Vignette title-page and 12 engraved plates by Samuel Luke Fildes. 8vo, original blue-green pictorial wrappers, 3 numbers with chipping to backstrips, occasional edgewear, most pronounced to first number; contents with occasional light foxing; custom cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. 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. Lacking "Cork Hat" ad in number 2 and publisher's "Recent Publications" ad in number 5, otherwise conforming to Hatton & Cleaver. Dickens' last novel, left unfinished upon his death. Eckel, pp. 96-98; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 373-84. London: Chapman & Hall, April-September, 1870