Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 6 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, narrow tear to top of front wrapper of part 1 touching a few letters, backstrips with a few chips mostly to extremities, minor repairs; minor foxing; housed in 1/4 morocco cloth clamshell box with lettering label. 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.