[Rarebooks] FS: 1st Edition of Dickens' EDWIN DROOD, 1870

[Michael John Thompson]

SALE PRICED AT $375.00 US plus postage.


DICKENS, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. 
With Twelve Illustrations by S.L. Fildes, And a 
Portrait. London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Picadilly. 
1870. First Edition. First edition in book form. 
Octavo, recently bound in a period style binding 
of half morocco over marbled paper boards, the 
spine with raised bands decorated and ruled gilt 
in compartments, contrasting red title label, by 
Byzantium Bindery. 190 pp, Frontispiece portrait 
of Dickens and Vignette title page, twelve 
full-page engravings inserted within the text. 
With all textual errors, as called for by Walter 
E. Smith in CHARLES DICKENS IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH 
(1981). A few pages with small corner creases, a 
few minor stains to the margins; overall a very 
clean, attractive copy in fine modern binding, very handsome and pleasing.

¶ First edition of Dickens’s final unfinished 
novel, interrupted by his death on 9 June 1870. A 
Haycraft-Queen cornerstone detective fiction 
novel. Originally issued in monthly parts, which 
were then bound up to form this first book 
edition. ‘Although only three parts had been 
issued prior to [Dickens’s] death, publication of 
the work continued, and on completion with part 6 
of all available material, the vast army of 
readers was left high and dry as to "The Mystery."                $550.00

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