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, backstrip ends chipped, small loss to bottom corner of front wrapper on first number with tape repair on verso and ownership signature; cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. 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; "Cork Hats" slip in number 2 (1x3 inch loss at lower left margin). With Edwin Drood Advertiser in each. Dickens' last novel, left unfinished upon his death. Eckel, pp. 96-98; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 373-84.