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 and 12 engraved plates by Samuel Luke Fildes, lacking portrait. 8vo, original blue-green pictorial wrappers, backstrips with short chips at extremities, fore-edges creased, closed tears to wrapper on Part 1; LMS bookplate laid-in; custom cloth fleece-lined folding box. 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. Advertisements lacking in parts 1-3. Dickens' last novel, left unfinished upon his death. Eckel, pp. 96-98; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 373-84.