[Rarebooks] fa: CHARLES DICKENS - THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD - 1870 (w/ intriguing inscription)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, July 17. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition; 8vo in early 1/2 leather and marbled boards; vii, [1], 190 pp.; with the portrait frontispiece, extra engraved title-page, and 12 plates. A rather rough but salvageable copy: spine leather gone, both boards detached, old cellotape repairs; leaves toned with occasional spotting, mostly light and relegated to the top margins. Front free-endpaper with an enigmatic early inscription: "Tell me thou[?] 'Lord of the Sunny Isle' what doth the 'Spirit of the South Wind' say!? Decbr. 10th 1872."