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Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, 1870, rebound in sturdy hardcover binding. Text unmarked, with some foxing throughout. Binding very strong. Half-title page repaired on back with tape. Exterior slightly shelfworn, soiled. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.)
Seller: Big Star Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870].. The MYSTERY Of EDWIN DROOD.. Chapman & Hall,, 1870.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chapman & Hall, January 1870 Binding: Hardcover GOOD IN CONTEMPORAQRY HALF CALF JOINTS HAVE SOME RUBBING, ONE CORNER LIGHTLY BUMPED, SOME LIGHT FOXING
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery Of Edwin Drood.. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Price: US$54.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1870-01-01. Chapman and Hall. Hardcover Half leather. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, Half leather bound. Patterned boards. 9x5
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, 1870.
Price: US$61.57 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1870 chapman hall loose binding front board detached with in tact 12 illustrations by S.L. Fildes and a protrait on half bound green and leather marbled boards
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 1st edition. Later state binding without design on front cover. 190pp.+ ads. B&w engravings. Covers edge-worn. Fair only.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Book Edition. Octavo. 3/4 leather over green pebbled cloth over boards, gilt decorations and lettering at covers and spine, with twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a portrait, without the ads. Good, spine ends chipped with head being two inches, leather heavily worn, wear to edges, front hinge broken, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood [first edition]. Chapman and Hall. London, 1870.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Bound in dark blue leather with marbled paper over boards (leather spine and corners). Raised cords (scuffed) and maroon title label on the spine. Only mild shelf wear on attractive binding. Marbled endpapers. First blank page is pasted to the frontispiece engraving of Dickens. When held up to the light, genealogical jotting visible on the hidden page(s) - Stansfield family. Engraved title page, followed by printed title page dated 1870. Illustrated with 12 plates by S.L. Fildes. 190 pages. Binding good and tight, text block clean. All 12 plates present and in good condition. This is the first edition of Dickens' last book, left unfinished when Dickens died. Original published from April-Sept 1870 and then issued in this book form immediately upon Dickens' death. Please email with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood [first edition]. Chapman and Hall. London, 1870.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Bound in scuffed brown leather with marbled paper over boards (leather spine and corners). Raised cords (scuffed) and black title label on the spine. Spine is dry and crackling and chipping. Boards secure and tight. Orange endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Dickens. Engraved title page, followed by printed title page dated 1870. Illustrated with 12 plates by S.L. Fildes. 190 pages. Binding good and tight, text block clean. All 12 plates present and in good condition. This is the first edition of Dickens' last book, left unfinished when Dickens died. Original published from April-Sept 1870 and then issued in this book form immediately upon Dickens' death. Please email with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.. Chapman & Hall London 1870, London, 1870.
Price: US$87.50 + shipping
Description: 1/2 leather marbled bds Good+ condition light wear hinge taped with 12 full page illustrations by Fildes. brief ink inscription dtd 1918
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood Vol. V. August, 1870. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Vol. V. August, 1870. 20, 129-160, [1] p. 23 cm. 2 b&w plates by Luke Fildes + illustrations in advertising. Blue paper covers. Most of spine chipped. Rough edges. Former owner's label attached to first page. Some staining. An installment of Dickens' last novel, left unfinished at the time of his death in June 1870. Although a September installment appeared, the last six expected installments were never written and therefore never printed. The ending Dickens intended remains unknown, the mystery unsolved.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
DICKENS, Charles. The mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$120.76 + shipping
Description: Bound in half brown calf leather, with marbled boards, end papers & page fore-edge. Some foxing; short tear in edge of frontis portrait (no loss); wear & surface loss to leather at board corners; spine faded & a little worn; dark green leather title label on spine, with bright gilt title. All illustrations, by S.L. Fildes, present. Used - Good. Good hardback in half-leather
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Name of the previous owner. First in book form. Publication of 190 pages and 2 pages of adverts. Complete with all 12 Illustrations By S.L. Fildes and a Portrait. Frontispiece. There is Bright Gold Gilt on the spine and the front of the book. The Green boards are a little shelf rubbed. Minor tear on the top edge of the title page. Internally there is foxing and minor marks throughout. The text remains legible. The binding is excellent. In good condition considering the age of the book 1870. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$143.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, vii + 190pp, portrait frontis, twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes, bound in half green calf with original marbled boards, title label inset on red morocco, raised bands, gilt decorated spine, all edges marbled, a little foxed but a good copy, Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover in green boards with gold gilt titles and decoration in good condition, 190 page 23 chapter publication with 2 pages of Dickens book ads; a 31 page book catalog dated May 1872 published by WH. Smith & Son and 7 pages of period London ads bound in rear, inner hinges intact with starts, FEP missing, 12 illustrations by Fildes with frontispiece showing an odd 1870 dated signature (see photos), no markings or bookplates
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. vii,(1),190pp. The first edition in book form with all the proper text points and the Fildes illustrations but without the ads at rear. 3/4 green morocco, gilt, over textured green cloth. Spine with five raised bands. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens. Added engraved title with a large vignette. Illustrated with 12 woodcut plates. Hinges and extremities rubbed but sound. This work, Dickens' last book, was originally issued in wrappers in six parts. At the time of his death he had not yet written the 7th and final part, and to this day the identity of Edwin Drood's killer remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of literature. Sadleir, M. 19th cent. fiction,; 694; Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction,; 1805; Podeschi, J.B. Dickens & Dickensiana,; A155; Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens,; B277.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: vii, 190 pp. Added engraved title page. With twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes, and a portrait. 8vo, 19th c. half green morocco; gilt spine; marbled sides, a.e.g. First book edition. A few light and inoffensive spots of foxing; slight use to the binding; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: vii, 190 [2, ads] pp. With twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes, and a portrait. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, rebacked retaining the original spine. First book edition. Spine and boards tanned; rebacked retaining the original spine and endsheets; a few tiny chips to the cloth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition rebacked in 2 volumes with dark green quarter leather & marbled boards, with gilt titles on spine. Lacking 4 Fildes illustrations- "In The Court", "Under The Trees", "At The Piano" & "On Dangerous Ground." Also lacking the portrait on the frontis. Plate "Up The River" appears at the frontis of volume one instead of on p.173. Apart from the missing elements the 2 volumes are in good condition, with general shelf-wear & minimal foxing evident. (190pp. 2pages of adds. ) An affordable first despite stated flaws. The author's last book. Unfinished at the time of his death.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles,:. The Mystery of Edwin Drood,. London Chapman Hall, 1870.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Description: First Edition: Hardback, original brown bds., gold spinal titles, 140 x 220 mm., 500g., 190 pp.+ 2pp.' Charles Dickens's Works', title pages loose at lower edge, illustrated with 12 illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a Portrait, foxing to eps. and some margins, bds. worn and faded, ring mark on front bd, text block detached at rear from case, Good- copy.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
CHARLES DICKENS. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. CHAPMAN AND HALL, LONDON, 1870.
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publisher's Victorian decorative dark green cloth boards with bright gilt titles to spine and front, 225 x 155 mm approx. Original pale yellow made end papers, viii + 190 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. Portrait, vignette title page + 12 illustrations by S.L.Fildes as called for. First book edition 1870 with saw tooth border around front cover and all other first issue points. Good (Book- cloth rubbed at extremities with some fraying especially to head and tail of spine, previous owner book plate to front paste down- Adolphus William Ward late Master of Peterhouse Cambridge with later same family book plate to free front end paper - daughter and son in law Cynthia and John Barnes - Sir John was late British Ambassador to The Netherlands and previously Israel. rear end paper starting- mull and sewing cords holding, pencil notes from a reading to rear paste down and occassional margin marking of such references, moderate foxing to prelims with occassional soiling, glue is beginning to fail to back strip with consequential straining to some signatures). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London Chapman and Hall 1870, 1870.
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Full Gilt Calf. R.L. Fildes (illustrator).Five raised gilt bands on spine. Patina present on some pages. 190 pp., 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Blue inlay inset with Vignette title and thirteen plates by Fildes, including also a frontispiece portrait of Dickens. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "Tower" on p1, "sentiment" on p131, "years" on p149, no "very" on p168, and "reflection" on p 169.Special wrapper inserted.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Pages are age tanned with occasional foxing. Good
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$164.84 + shipping
Description: Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London. 1870. VII, 190, 30, [8] S. Mit gestochenem Porträt und Titel sowie 12 Holzstich-Tafeln von L. Fildes. 4°. Dunkelgrüner Olwd. mit Gold- und Schwarzprägung. etwas berieben und bestoßen. . Innengelenke brüchig, Buchblock gelockert, vereinzelt etwas unfrisch. Hatton-Cleaver S. 373ff.
Seller: Antiquariat ABATON oHG, München, Germany
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. 1st edition, VG+. Book is missing FFE (which has a portrait of Dickens by Fildes on the obverse), gilt lettering on spine lightly faded, light wear to spine ends and corners, scattered spotting (mostly to illustrations) throughout text. Front panel gilt lettering is nice & bright, both panels have little wear (even to the edges), 12 b & w illustrations in the text by Fildes, separate title page with engraving by Fildes precedes regular title page, 2 pages of ads for Dickens's titles and 32 more pages of ads for other Chapman and Hall titles are listed after the text. Dickens never finished this novel and there have been more than 200 attempts to finish it since 1870.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Later Edition. Octavo. Original green cloth with black lines around edges instead of saw tooth markings, gilt lettering and decorations at front cover and spine, pale yellow end papers, with twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a portrait, May 1872 ads. Very good, spine ends and corners bumped, spine slightly darkened, spine gutters rubbed, previous owner's signature at front free end paper, pages foxed and agetone.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall 1870, 1870.
Price: US$179.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: contemporary full-leather by G Winstanley, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, spine bumped, upper hinge cracked but cords holding, illustrated by S L Fildes, portrait frontispiece, original pictorial upper paper wrapper tipped-in, top edge gilt, a nice copy. from the library of William Agnew with his armorial bookplate front pastedown; first edition; 190 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 193 Picadilly, 1870.
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a Portrait; publisher's catalogue at rear; 8vo., vii [1] 190 [2] pp.; recently rebacked in quarter calf, mustard yellow dappled spine with five raised bands, contrasting black label, gilt title and ornate lines over grey marbled boards; plates lightly foxed in margins and very occasionally throughout, otherwise good clean copy of Dicken's last unfinished work, nicely bound.
Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound from the parts. Contemporary half calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt title and ornate gilt panels, marbled boards and endpapers; 8vo., pp. vii, [1],190. Pagination runs - authors portrait frontispiece, illustrated title page, title page, publishers note, contents and list of illustrations. Lightly foxed throughout, corners and edges slightly rubbed, top of front cover a little sunned but a nice binding. An attractive copy of the authors final, unfinished work.
Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback,190pp with 12 illustrations by S L Fildes and a portrait. Collated as per Eckel.Possibly bound from parts as the small binding holes are showing.Attractive red leather spine with gilt titling. Internally foxed, quite heavily in places.Owners bookplate to inside front board and the pastedown ep is creased (during the binding process).the red cloth textured baords habe some bumping to corners and on both front and rear boards there is a patch where the red has been sunned/faded.very light wear to head and food of leather spine. Overall a good+ volume of Dickens last and unfinished work.
Seller: moorland books, Oldham, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Description: pp. vii, (i), 190. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title, 12 plates. Bound within the printed wrappers of the original part III June 1870, with later half calf, rebacked, top corner of the portrait creased, one plate with an old repair in the top gutter margin without loss, good overall.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London Chapman and Hall 1870, 1870.
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full tan calf binding which has been skillfully repaired. Bound by Zandorf. Gold lines to front and rear boards.Five raised gilt bands on spine with elaborated gilt tooling and lettering. 190 pp. Thirteen plates by Fildes, including also a frontispiece portrait of Dickens. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "Tower" on p1, "sentiment" on p131, "years" on p149, no "very" on p168, and "reflection" on p 169. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Pages are age tanned with very slight spotting. Fascinating newspaper cuttings dated 1890 stuck into front endpapers.
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in the early 20th c. in limp morocco, with gilt title and author on the upper cover. Bound at the end are ten leaves of bibliographical interest, chronicling the details of Dickens's publications, taken from the Forster biography of 1874. Publishers, dates and other details are recorded for each book. All edges gilt.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles:. The mystery of Edwin Drood.. London, Chapman and Hall,, 1870.
Price: US$197.81 + shipping
Description: Erste Buchausgabe. * In einem schönen Meistereinband! Wegen der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien. No shipping to Bulgarien, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 506 8°. VII,1,190 S., 1 Bl. Halbledereinband der Zeit auf 5 Bünden mit reicher Rückenvergoldung, mit goldgeprägtem, montiertem, farbigen Rückenschildchen. Lederecken, Farbschnitt. Marmorpapiervorsatz. Meistereinband der Buchbinderei Norstedt aus Stockholm (kleiner Aufkleber auf hinterem Innendeckel). Leder minimal berieben, Papier gering vergilbt, sonst sehr schön. Mit einem gestochenen Porträt, einem gestochenen Schmucktitel und 12 Holzschnitttafeln nach Illustrationen von S. L. Fildes.
Seller: Antiquariat Jürgen Fetzer, Wien, Austria
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 190p illustrated with 12 plates and a frontispiece portrait. 2 pages of ads. Matches all the points for a first edition according to Walter E Smith bibliography except the 2 points on page 177. Bound in period red cloth gilt title and author on spine. Tiny label (period) on inside panel "bound by Chamberlain Printer Book Binder, Stationer 29 30 Lake road ?? Spine torn on one side and flapping.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: vii, 190 [4 + 38, ads] pp. With twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes, and a portrait. 8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped in gold and black. First book edition. Carter B; later binding without the sawtooth border. Rear hinge cracked but still sound; minor rubbing to cloth at extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. viii 190 [2]pp. Bound into full contemporary leather with black leather spine labels. 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt decorations to spine. Marble endpapers. With 12 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes and a portrait. Last and unfinished Dickens book. Rear cover joints cracked at top and bottom but still holding. Eckel p. 99. Smith - Dickens in Original Cloth #14. Sadleir XIX Century Fiction #694.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.. Chapman and Hall, London., 1870.
Price: US$218.05 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form. Green cloth darkened. Gilt and black decorations. Pictorial title-page, second title page, illustrations by S.L. Fildes. Rebacked with new eps, retaining original spine undetached; extremities bumped and a little frayed. Inscription on recto of frontis, with resulting show-through; couple of minor splashmarks to frontis, one affecting pictorial page (not touching the illustration or text). Tight copy. Vg.
Seller: Dennys, Sanders & Greene, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles,:. The Mystery of Edwin Drood,. London Chapman Hall, 1870.
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Description: First Edition: Hardback, half-bound in green leather, 5 raised spinal bands, gold titles and decs., marbled bds., 140 x 220 mm., 500g., 190 pp. + bound in rear of book original paper cover (in blue), :- August 1870 issue no. V of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, with advert for 20 guinea pianoforte on verso, illustrated with 12 illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a Portrait, foxing to eps. and some margins, no dw., VG copy.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition, bound from the parts, of Charles Dickens' last and unfinished novel, illustrated by S. L. Fildes. The first edition of this work in a half calf binding. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Dickens with a facsimile signature and the date 1870; an engraved title page complete with vignette; and twelve further plates. Collated, complete. 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was Dickens' final work, left unfinished upon his death in June 1870; of the twelve instalments planned, only six had been written. As Dickens hadn't left a clear or detailed plan as to the continuation or resolution of the plot, the 'Mystery' was left unsolved. Illustrated throughout by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, a British painter and illustrator. This copy complies with all issue points for the first impression according to Eckel (p.97), but is lacking the cover wraps for each part and the advertisements. In a half calf binding. Externally fairly smart, though rubbed to the spine and extremities, with light shelf wear to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age toned with the occasional spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, 1870.
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1870 1st Edition in full calf binding, AEG,marbled endpapers ,12 engraved illustrations + Portrait and vignette title page with tissue guard, binding is tight clean with no inscriptions, the book has aged gently and is in very good overall condition
Seller: Between The Boards, Connahs Quay, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London Chapman and Hall 1870, 1870.
Price: US$243.07 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition. vii,[1],190pp. Octavo in plain green cloth, red speckled edges and yellow endpapers with 12 engraved plates and extra engraved title page vignette by S. L. Fildes and frontispiece (portrait). Book plate on verso of front free endpaper. fine
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in six parts, covers bound in. Bibliography: Eckel, p. 97. Lacks back cover of part Six. Light wear at head and tail of spine. Very mild wear along surface of spine. Hinge starting to crack at front and back paste down pages. Hinge cracked at p. 190. Previous owner's marking on p. 190 and title page. Hinge starting to crack at title page. Otherwise very good
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWN DROOD. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. First edition in second issue binding. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering and black design spine and front cover. Two thin black ruled borders front cover. Yellow endpapers. Engraved portrait and title page and 12 full page plates by S. L. Fildes. Mild cover edge wear, foxing and small dampstain on engraved portrait and title page, owner name and library blindstamp ffep. Pencil notes at page titled "Charles Dickens's Works". 190 pp., ads and monthly catalogue at rear.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Price: US$250.12 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' by Charles Dickens. Chapman and Hall 1870 first edition. First issue with all relevant points noted. All plates present together with pictorial title page and portrait of Dickens. Fairly modern (circa 1940s) binding. Spine split down both sides. Good, firm binding. Spotting to preliminary pages. Good condition throughout.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has maroon boards with leather binding and corner reinforcements. Gold tooled spine with gilt decoration and a black title label. A little bumping to corners, and a little general darkening to board edges. Marbled feps and page ends. P/o notes written in pencil on rear of fep. Some foxing to first several pages, and occasional spotting throughout. A really lovely copy. Please contact for images.
Seller: Compass Books, Devon, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo., 8.75 X 6 inches. vii + [i] + 190 pp. + [2] pp. publisher's list, Charles Dickens's Works. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, decorated in gilt and black, with gilt block; new pastedown endpapers with original spine. A little wear to extremities, including head and tail of spine, slight darkening of spine and edges and some foxing of preliminaries, edges and margins; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette title page and by 12 engraved plates. Dickens's unfinished last novel. This first edition has the primary binding with the sawtooth border. The copy is unusual in having two pages of advertisements, whereas Smith notes no pages or thirty two pages for the primary binding version. (Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, p. 111-117). ART / LITERATURE DICKENS LIT. FICTION 19TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.. Chapman and Hall., London, 1870.
Price: US$261.03 + shipping
Description: pp. viii, 190, (ii) of adverts. Frontis portrait, engraved title and 12 plates, all by S.l. Fildes. 8vo. Half green morocco with gilt decoration, all edges gilt. Tipped in on the front endpapers are a newspaper cutting reportting the death of Sir Luke Fildes and the front part of the original wrapper for Part III of this work. 1st edition. Sadleir 694. Smith p. 114.
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Comtemorary green half leather over marbled paper covered boards. Raised spine stamped in gold and sunned to light brown. T.e.g. Outer edg es and joints rubbed. 12 full page illustrations by S.L. Fildes and 2 steel engravings [portrait and titlepage]. Original blue-green front cover for part number V bound in at rear. A nice copy of the first edition in book form of Dickens' last unfinished novel. Eckel p. 96-98; Smith p. 114-17; Podeschi A155. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall 1870, London, 1870.
Price: US$288.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Engraved portrait frontis. & title + viii., 190 pp Bound from the parts - stab marks visible. In a recent brown calf, with a green morocco title label and marbled boards. Some scattered foxing, but otherwise a good clean copy. 22 cm tall 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, 1870.
Price: US$299.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The original six pamphlets. In generally fair condition; the April issue (#1) lacks both covers; #2 lacks rear cover; #3 lacks rear cover; the other issues have covers detached, included. Edgewear and scattered foxing, spines split. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With all but the last one of the following 'internal flaws' referred to by Smith uncorrected. 'First Edition, early issue points included: P1, lines 1 and 2 Tower for town. P4, line 23 no punctuation after clergy. P10, line 5 no punctuation after it. P28, 4 lines up it s for its. P43, last line i dropped slightly in intent. P47, line 17 of Chap. 8 large period after no. P74, line 18 no initial single quote before Past. P100, last line u slightly high in used. P131, line 1 sentiment for sentence. P149, 9 lines up years for yours. P168, line 26 very may not be printed or only lightly so before pleasant. P. 177, 19 lines up ere for ere. P177, 9 lines up l (L)may be imperfect in girl.'. Description: Three quarter maroon leather binding with ornate decorated five ridge spine. Green title plate with gilt lettering. Green marbled boards and brown endpapers. Illustrated with 12 black and white plates by S.L. Fildes. Language: English. Book Condition> Good: Heavy wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Wear to spine bands and edges. Both endpapers are cracked but hinges remains strong. Spotted. Foxed prelims with prev owners name to fly page. First page of chapter 1 is detached. A few other pages are loosely bound. Tanned pages with occasional marks and spots to some pages. DJ Condition> Na. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required.
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, 190pp, no ads; contemporary three-quarter morocco with marbled endpapers and edges. Dickens's final book, unfinished at his death leaving the mystery unsolved. Portrait engraving slightly foxed, with a few spots to first and last leaves; extremities of binding rubbed
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, without cork hat slip in part 2; first state of front wrapper of part 6, printed slip changing the price from one shilling to eighteenpence. Illustrated. In 6 parts, as issued. 1 vols. 8vo. IN ORIGINAL PARTS. Eckel p. 96; Hatton and Cleaver 373ff Printed wrappers, made-up set. Good Illustrated. In 6 parts, as issued. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, without cork hat slip in part 2; first state of front wrapper of part 6, printed slip changing the price from one shilling to eighteenpence.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman and Hall, London, England, 1870.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in nineteenth-century plain brown cloth with black leather label on spine. Gilt lettering on label. 5 5/8" x 8 1/2." 190 pages, complete. Illustrated frontispiece portrait of Charles Dickens, engraved title, and twelve plates, complete. All illustrations are in black and white. Two additional pages in the back advertise other books by Charles Dickens. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Some of the pages have foxing. Corners and head and tail of spine are a little worn. Charles Dickens's last novel. This is the first edition in book form published in 1870.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall 1870, London, 1870.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: viii, 190 pp. Contemporary dark brown half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. Some wear to spine joints with small areas of peeling to leather. Extra engraved title page. Frontis. portrait. With 12 illustrations by S. L. Fildes. Bound from the parts with four of the six front covers bound in. Scattered spotting. A Good to VG copy. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Frontispiece of Charles Dickens. 12 Illustrations by S.L. Fildes. Contemporary marbled boards over leather spine and corners, leather moderately worn. Contents nice and clean. Three vintage newspaper articles affixed to the front paste-down, very minor offsetting. A nice copy.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 189 pages + 32 pages of ads at back, dated Aug. 31, 1870. FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 12 illustrations by Fildes. Green cloth hardcovers with gilt letttering and embellishments on spine and top board, alongside dark green decoration stamped to both boards and spine. Bumped corners. Moderate edgewear/rubbing. Gentle shelfwear. Yellow endpapers. Prev. owner's signatures on fep, earliest dated 1870. Deckled edges. Lightly dusted on top. The pages are bright. Light foxing, sparse through the volume. Binding a bit loose in places. VG-/--
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$437.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo. First issue according to Smith. Portrait frontispiece of Mr. Dickens, engraved vignette title page and regular title page, illustrated with 12 other engravings by S.L. Fildes. This would be the last book ever written by Charles Dickens and left unfinished because he had had a stroke and died the following day. The story was never finished but was published. There were several who had written their own ending. Bound in 3/4 red Morocco over red pebble grained cloth, decorative gilt roles to both boards, raised bands gilt, compartments lettered and fully gilt decorated, marbled endpapers, all edges marble, From the library of Terence Francis Carmody and Henry B. Hearn. four very small, closed tears to the outer margins of pages 72-79, minor scattered foxing to first and last few leaves, internally clean, joints and corners rubbed. A very good copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$439.57 + shipping
Description: gestoch. Frontisp., XII, 190 S., 12 Tafeln, Kopfgoldschnitt First Edition. Smith, 91 ff. angebunden: 104 Bl. Werbeannoncen, darunter viermal Vorderdeckel der Orig.-Broschur. Der signierte Meistereinband von G. Sawyer Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Gr.-8°, Prächtiger Ganzmarroquin-Meistereinband, vergold. Rückentitel, reiche Rückenvergoldung, vergold. Deckelbordüren, vergold. Innenkanten
Seller: Antiquariat Werner Steinbeiß, München, Germany
DICKENS, Charles. Mystery of Edwin Drood. , 1870.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Bound by Riviere in triple gilt-ruled polished calf, raised spine bands, elaborate gilt spine, brown morocco spine labels, elaborate inner gilt dentelles, gilt-chamfered edges, A.e.g. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. Eckel p. 96. Smith 16. Wolff 1805. Sadleir 694. Very good or better.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. 190. Engraved title. Engraved frontis. port. of Dickens by J. H. Baker after the 1863 photograph of Dickens taken by Mason & Co., with tissue guard. With 12 plates by L. [Luke] Fildes, also with tissue guards. Bound in old three-quarter red morocco over red textured cloth boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. With stray foxing. A handsome, presentable copy. First edition, bound from parts. Dickens sudden death left his great mystery novel only half finished. His ambition? To rival Wilkie Collins' Moonstone. Collins and Dickens had collaborated on a number of works; their mutual influence was great. And while Dickens affected almost all Western writers of his time, Collins has been declared the only writer who influenced Dickens. GLOVER & GREENE, Victorian Detective Fiction, p. 109. BARZUN & TAYLOR, Catalogue of Crime, p. 1103. ECKEL, p. 96. SMITH I, 114.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Lon. Chapman and Hall. 1870., 1870.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition of Dickens' last novel over which he collapsed and died before completing it. With 12 Illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a portrait of Dickens signed in facsimile and dated 1870. With a cataogue of Dickens' works bound in at the rear. VG in quarter leather and leather tips with gilt stamping on the binding. Bound in marble paper-covered boards. Front hinge tender. With a little shelf wear to the edges. First English Edition of Dickens' last novel over which he collapsed and died before completing it.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker; title vignette and 13 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes. [viii], 190, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Smith 16; Podeschi, Gimbel Collection A155 Half modern brown calf and marbled boards. Fine Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker; title vignette and 13 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes. [viii], 190, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood [5 of 6 parts]. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Size: 8 3/4" x 5 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Parts 1-4 & 6 of the original issued pamphlets of Edwin Drood. There is a sixth pamphlet included, marked No. V, but it is actually another No. IV in the wrong wraps. Printed blue-green wraps on all parts, illustrations by Luke Fildes (only lacking the two that are in No. V), most of "Eighteenpence" sticker on No. VI survives, No. II lacks the "Cork Hats" ad, Part IV lacks the "Chapman & Co." ads. Wear at corners and spine ends, chips to edges of wraps, one of the illustrations has a short tear in margin, some scattered foxing/light staining, several pages uncut. Housed in a plain cream-colored paper clamshell box. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 0 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015008.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. vii, 190 (4) pp. 32 pp. Rebound in green calf leather. Gilt tooled border with gilt design and raised bands. Front board detached but present. Wear to corners, edges and spine. One inch part of backstrip on tail of spine missing. All gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of previous owner to inside of front board. One original wrap bound in (July 1870). With b/w illustrations by S. L. Fildes. Some foxing, only lightly affecting text and/or illustrations. A great copy of this wonderful classic. 32 pages of advertisement by publisher in rear of book. Binding in fair, interior in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$481.00 + shipping
Description: Two books bound in one volume. 'Christmas Books' is an early printing of the collected edition; 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' is a first edition. Contemporary half navy morocco with marbled boards, five raised bands and gilt titles and decorations to the spine. All edges gilt. Both titles are illustrated throughout in black and white. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities a little worn, the corners very slightly bumped. Internally both titles have occasional light spotting, foxing, and offsetting, the contents are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. A handsome volume. 'Christmas Books' contains 'A Christmas Carol', 'The Chimes' 'The Cricket on the Hearth' 'The Battle of Life' and 'The Haunted Man'. The first edition of The Mystery of Edwin Drood was published posthumously. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$486.13 + shipping
Description: First edition. Tall 8vo., cont. half calf, marble boards, raised bands, leather spine label, 190pp. Fine.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Dickens, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 22 cm; [viii], 190, [2] pages. LACKS publisher's catalogue at end. Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker; title vignette and 13 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes. In half polished calf over marbled boards, gilt tooled spine with leather labels. Some abrasion at extremities. E 4-5 loose but present. Upper hinge tender. Scattered foxing.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. The mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 22 cm; viii, 190 pages, portrait frontispiece and 12 full page illustrations by S.L. Fildes. No publisher's ads at end. In polished half calf over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Spine brightly gilt with red and black title labels. Marbled edges. Armorial bookplate of G. J. Crosby Dawson. Edges rubbed. Pages with variously scattered foxing, especially at beginning and end (see photo of title page).
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Price: US$513.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 190 pp. Tan leather spine & cnrs, red marbled boards front & back. Spine has attractive gilt pattern, slightly bumped top & btm but sound. Gilt title in black label on spine. Red marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Title page w. attractive engraving. Contains 12 illus. plates (complete) and a portrait. Small tear at btm of plate opp. p.156. Small tear at btm of page 1, (at gutter). Very nice, collectable copy.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman & Hall, 1870.
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Description: 222 x 140mm, contemporary dark green half calf, panelled spine ornamented in gilt, red leather lettering-piece, gilt, pp.vii, 190, portrait frontispiece engraved by J H Baker, from a photograph taken in 1868, by Mason & Co., engraved title, 12 full-page engraved plates. The six monthly parts, bound with the original blue-green printed wrappers dated May & June 1870, The Edwin Drood Advertiser (Part I), pp,5-38, Part II, pp.1-20, Part III, pp.1-20, Part IV, pp.1-24, Part V, pp.1-20, Part VI, pp.1-18, Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications (8pp), with the flyer for 'All the Year Round' No.79, various other advertisements for The Scottish Widows' Fund, Dr De Jongh's Cod Liver Oil, Chapmen & Co's Entire Wheat Flour (4pp), Cassell, Petter & Galpin (4pp), sewing machines (8pp), Chapman & Hall's 'Select Library of Fiction' dated March 1870 (6pp) & Henry Brett & Co. dated June 8th, 1854 (4pp). Lacks the 'Cork Hat' advertisement. Bookplate. A little scattered foxing. Professional repairs have been made to two of the wrappers, one defective advertisement leaf, and to outer joints at tail of spine. An attractive copy of the author's last work, containing the advertisements where clues deemed necessary for the solution of the mystery may be found.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. The mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1870 Charles Dickens 1st ed Mystery of Edwin Drood Unfinished Novel Illustrated A rare first edition of Charles Dickens last unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This first book edition was published by Chapman and Hall in 1870 following the monthly installment releases. It features 12 illustrations by S.L. Fildes and is beautifully bound. The Mystery of Edwin Drood follows the story of orphan Edwin Droods uncle who, in addition to being a choirmaster, is an opium addict who is in love with Droods fiancée. Item number: #24578 Price: $599 DICKENS, Charles The mystery of Edwin Drood London : Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. 1st printing Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o vii, [1], 190 o 13 engravings, plus engraved vignette title page References: Eckel p. 96-98; Smith 16; Gimbel A 115 Language: English Binding: Leather; tight and secure Size: ~8.75in X 5.5in (22cm x 14cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 24578 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1870 Charles Dickens 1st ed Mystery of Edwin Drood Unfinished Novel Illustrated A rare first edition of Charles Dickens last unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This first book edition was published by Chapman and Hall in 1870 following the monthly installment releases. It features 12 illustrations by S.L. Fildes and is beautifully bound. The Mystery of Edwin Drood follows the story of orphan Edwin Droods uncle who, in addition to being a choirmaster, is an opium addict who is in love with Droods fiancée. Item number: #24734 Price: $599 DICKENS, Charles The mystery of Edwin Drood London : Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. 1st printing Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o vii, [1], 190 o 14 engravings (including engraved vignette title page) References: Eckel p. 96-98; Smith 16; Gimbel A 115 Language: English Binding: Leather; tight and secure Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (21.5cm x 14cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 24734 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "Tower" on p1, "sentiment" on p131, "years" on p149, no "very" on p168, and "reflection" on p 169 [Smith: Octavo. In a period full gilt calf extra binding with the original front cover bound in, with one original pictorial wrap bound in in back . [i-v]vi-vii[viii], [1]2-190, (2)pp. list of Dickens' works., 32pp. publisher's catalog, bound in back, rare thus most 1sts of Drood lack these ads, thirteen plates by Fildes, including the vignette title and a frontispiece portrait of Dickens.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London UK, 1870.
Price: US$634.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first edition, bound from the original monthly parts from April to September 1870. Original cover of May copy bound in at the front of the book, priced one shilling. With twelve illustrations and a portrait by Luke Fildes. Al first state points as per Smith [page 77 except only for "screamed" for "screwed" on page 132, line 20. Complete with errata page. Specimen wrapper bound in half green polished levant morocco. Gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled front free pages with booksellers stamp on front free page. Blue magazine half title page insert. Water stain on the portrait and illustrated title page. Tissue guard between the portrait and illustrated title page. Foxing and light stains within the text.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With 12 plates by Samuel Luke Fildes. First edition. The original six parts of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', the final unfinished work of Charles Dickens. No more parts were published as Dickens died whilst writing. First issue, with the "eighteenpence" slip over the one shilling price to the front wrap of Part VI. Complete with all twelve plates called for, as well as a portrait frontispiece and engraved title page to Part VI. In the original publisher's green/blue paper wraps, in a custom red faux leather clam shell case. Condition: Good. The wraps are in very tatty condition with disintegration along the spines and several of them detached from the text blocks. Part V is pulling away from the stitching throughout the text block, with a number of detached pages in the centre, but all pages present. All other parts are complete and internally still held together with the original stitching. The attractive case is in excellent condition. It appears some of the adverts at the back of the parts may be missing - please let me know if you need further detail on these, but note that this set is priced to take that into account. Size: 9x5.5in / 23x14cm. 190 pages plus adverts. Combined weight in clamshell case: 1kg.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This final novel was never finished as Dickens had only written enough for six installments before his death in 1870. Readers never found out what happened after Edwin Drood disappeared. Six original issues in original blue paper covers. Second issue includes advertisement for cork hats printed on paper-thin cork. Kept safe in dark green custom box, gilt titles on spine, lined with white felt. First edition, first issue point present: "a small slip of greenish blue paper with the price of eighteenpence, pasted over the incorrect price (one shilling) that is printed on the front wrapper" (Podeschi A154). Condition of each issue: No. 1: Covers all there and still attached but ripped, chips missing to spine, name written across top of front cover. No. 2: Covers all there and still attached but ripped, chips missing to spine, cork ad has 4" tear but still attached. No. 3: Covers all there, still attached, no rips or chips. No. 4: Covers all there and still attached but ripped, chips missing to spine, string exposed. No. 5: Covers all there, still attached, small rip and missing chip on spine, name written in top right corner. No. 6: Covers all there, rear cover is detached, chips missing to spine as well as tears to both covers, name written in top right corner, no wear to "Price Eighteenpence" pasted slip.
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. 8vo, 14 x 22.5 cm. Engraved title and plates after Luke Fildes. Publisher's blue-green pictorial wraps. Moderate soiling and chipping to the wrappers, rear wrap of part 1 detached, slight loss to the spines and some curling edges, light tanning. "Price Eighteenpence" on part 6, "Cork Hats" slip at the end of part 2.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 6 Periodicals.. London Chapman & Hall 1870, 1870.
Price: US$710.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Earliest Issue. (36), 32, (20)pp. Octavo. Original green illustrated wrappers. Chipping and wear present mainly to I, II, III. Periodicals IV, V, VI have minor dust soiling but are in very good condition. II has torn at top right corner. All periodicals begin with adverts. 14 plates total between all, including portrait and title page. Foxing present in all volumes. Plate 1 in I is placed loosely inside. Volume II is missing Cork Hats ad at back. Volume IV is missing all ads at front and back. Volume V has no ads at front and missing yellow ad at back. Volume VI is missing yellow ad, but has Eighteenpence slip pasted on front cover, as originally printed in earliest issue. very good Hatton & Cleaver 371. Dickens last unfinished novel, which was garnering intense popularity and some believe was set to become his bestseller. Issued in 6 periodicals, Dickens death in June of 1870 left readers hanging as to what "The Mystery" was. The illustrated front cover was produced by C.A.Collins, depicting the eight incidents to have taken place within the story, leading some people to speculate as to its ending. Dickens was very careful not to release information as to the ultimate ending of the story, preferring the suspense of the publications. Great copy of scarce periodicals!
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Price: US$725.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover Condition: Fine. First edition, first issue of Dickens' final novel. Octavo. Bound in full morocco, gilt titles and trim to covers and spine. Five raised bands. Top of text block in gilt. 12 engraved plates by S.L.Fildes. Internally spotless with no foxing but for elegant ownership sticker to pastedown. Lighting rubbing to tips, top of spine, and middle raised band. 190 pages + 2 adverts. A beautiful copy.
Seller: EGR Books, Centreville, VA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first binding. (Black sawtooth border on front cover as per Smith 16. Interestingly, neither ads nor catalogue at rear as Smith describes Carter A, but no established priority thus.) [i-v]vi-vii[viii], [1]2-190 with frontispiece and 12 illustrated plates by Fildes. Original green cloth with gilt lettering with black designs, original slightly-yellow endpapers. About Very Good. Headcap and top tips worn away, wear and slight fraying along spine edges, rubbing and a few small scratches to cloth. Endpapers foxed, small bookplate on paste down. Typical small stab-holes to outer margins of a few illustrations as well as last four illustrations inserted to face versos, a variant mentioned by Smith. Dickens' final novel, which was never completed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD+ CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN 3/4 CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH MARBLED BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS, PASTE DOWNS AND END PAGES. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE WITHOUT MARKS, MILD SPORADIC FOXING. WITH 12 ILLUSTRATIONS BY S. L. FILDES AND A PORTRAIT, 190 PAGES, BOOK MEASURES 8.5"x5.5". FIRST EDITION, 151 YEARS OLD. A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE IN GREAT CONDITION.
Seller: Reagan's Rare Books, Moseley, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, six parts (all published, unfinished at the author's death) issued April -- September, 1870. 8vo. vii, (1), 190, (2) total pages. Engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title-page, 12 plates. With all advertising matter, as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, present, with the exception of the 8-page Chapman & Hall catalogue in part five; Willcox & Gibbs ad in part six in state "1A," with no priority mentioned. Cork ad present (chipped), printed price slip at head of part six; front ads in Part II lacking one leaf (pp. 19-20). Hatton & Cleaver "A Bibliography of the Periodical works of Charles Dickens" London, 1933), pp. 371-384. Original illustrated blue-green wrappers (parts 1-4 with repair to spines, neatly glued and firm, and with several small losses replaced with new matching paper, parts 5 & 6 neatly rebacked; some soiling, some edgewear, a little light foxing and soiling to the text and plates, with some glassine sheets guarding plates replaced), several parts with an owner's name at the head of the front wrapper. Housed in a green quarter morocco (rubbed) and cloth pull-off slipcase, gilt spine title, with chemise (11168).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, six parts (all published, unfinished at the author's death) issued April -- September, 1970. 8vo. vii, (1), 190, (2) total pages. Engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title-page, 12 plates. With all advertising matter, as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, present, with the exception of the 8-page Chapman & Hall catalogue in part five; Willcox & Gibbs ad in part six in state "1A," with no priority mentioned. Cork ad present (chipped), printed price slip at head of part six; front ads in Part II lacking one leaf (pp. 19-20). Hatton & Cleaver "A Bibliography of the Periodical works of Charles Dickens" London, 1933), pp. 371-384. Original illustrated blue-green wrappers (parts 1-4 with repair to spines, neatly glued and firm, and with several small losses replaced with new matching paper, parts 5 & 6 neatly rebacked; some soiling, some edgewear, a little light foxing and soiling to the text and plates, with some glassine sheets guarding plates replaced), several parts with an owner's name at the head of the front wrapper. Housed in a green quarter morocco (rubbed) and cloth pull-off slipcase, gilt spine title, with chemise (11168).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman & Hall, 1870, 1870.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; as issued in six parts; some chips, tears, splitting and spots, restoration of spines and extremities with added paper; the 'cork' ad is in the second part; a good to very good set in a custom cloth clamshell box. An original description was laid in, omitting pertinent details on condition, such as extensive repairs. In the interest of some attempt at ethical behavior, we have discarded this largely fictional contribution, which priced this set at a considerably higher price than we offer it at. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, CHARLES. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Chapman and Hall, 1870., London, 1870.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form. With twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a portrait. Octavo, recently bound in a period style binding of three quarter 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. This remains one of the great unfinished and unsolved literary mysteries. Only three serial parts were written when Dickens died on June 9, 1870, 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." This copy is lightly foxed, else in fine condition and handsomely bound in three-quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, and titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine. Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, UK, 1870.
Price: US$769.60 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens First Edition Chapman & Hall 1870. All six original instalments smartly trimmed and rebound. April - September 1870. All original advertisements still present. No loose or damaged leaves and unblemished throughout. Fine. "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" by Charles Dickens is a gripping and unfinished novel that explores the enigmatic disappearance of its titular character. Set in the fictional cathedral town of Cloisterham, the story revolves around Edwin Drood, a young man engaged to Rosa Bud. However, Edwin's sudden vanishing leaves behind a trail of suspicion and intrigue. Dickens masterfully weaves together a tapestry of complex characters, each with their own motives and secrets. With a blend of atmospheric descriptions and psychological depth, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" delves into themes of love, jealousy, and the dark undercurrents of human nature, ultimately leaving readers to speculate on its unresolved ending.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. , 1870.
Price: US$875.43 + shipping
Description: First edition, bound from the original wrappers. With twelve illustrations. 8vo. vii, [1], 190, [2, publisher?s advertisements], pp. [Bound in at the back] the front page and advertisements to the original six monthly parts. Nineteenth century half calf with marbled paper covered boards, spine with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second panel lettered in gilt to black morocco label, the rest decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. London, Chapman and Hall. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was initially planned to be published in eleven monthly instalments, but only six were completed before Dickens died of a stroke on the 9th June 1870. ?It was to be a murder story, 'the originality of which was to consist in the review of the murderer's career by himself at the close, when its temptations were to be dwelt upon as if, not he the culprit, but some other man were the tempted' (Forster, 808). It was the culmination of Dickens's lifelong fascination with the demeanour and psychology of murderers and he was, his daughter Katey remembered, 'quite as deeply fascinated and absorbed in the study of the criminal Jasper as in the dark and sinister crime that has given the book its title'? (ODNB). A very good copy, corners and joints a little rubbed. The original wrappers bound in at the back trimmed by the binder with some loss to text. Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in Original Cloth Part 1. 16.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$880.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [7], vi-vii, [2], 2-190, [2] pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine in seven compartments with gilt tooling and a black morocco label lettered in gilt on the second compartment; all edges marbled. Engraved vignette title page. With twelve illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a portrait. Bound from the original parts. Lacks the wrappers and the advertisements. Eckel 96-98. Gimbel A154. Hatton & Cleaver 373-[384]. A beautiful copy of Dickens' unfinished final novel. Leaves show a few spots of foxing, not affecting the illustrations or text.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Chapman & Hall, 1870.
Price: US$881.90 + shipping
Description: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, Chapman & Hall, 1870, first edition, a bright vg+ copy in the publishers origiinal decorated cloth binding. Very nice. HAYCRAFT/QUEEN cornerstone.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles; S.L. Fields, illus. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (22.5cm.); original green decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt;vii,[1],190,[2],32pp.; portrait frontis. and additional engraved title page, 12 plates. Some edge wear, contemporary gift inscription "To George Beaumont / from his brother / Edward / Oct 2nd 1870," to front free endpaper. Very Good or better. GIMBEL A155; SMITH I 16.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First edition from the original parts Dickens' final novel, with them bound in the rear. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, frontispiece portrait of dickens, 12 wood-engraved plates, original wrappers bound in rear. In near fine condition. Charles Dickensâ novels regularly revolved around masks, dual identities and other secrets. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, however, âenlarged and strengthened [such matters] in the pursuit of a larger vision, a vision which depicts the âlanes of lightâ between the dark pillars of a crypt and which reflects upon âthat mysterious fire which lurks in everythingâ (Ackroyd, 1056). Unfortunately, at the time of his death on June 9, 1870, Dickens had written only six parts of the book, three of which had been published. The remaining three were published posthumously. Dickens had so closely guarded the plotâs outlines, even from his closest friends, that to this day the identity of Droodâs killer remains a topic for speculation, discussion and debate. âThere are few of [Dickensâ] stories which are superior in the matter of composition⦠one of the best unfinished mystery stories in literatureâ (Eckel, 96). This tantalizing tale has been adapted in film and television several times.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.. Chapman & Hall: London, 1870.
Price: US$977.50 + shipping
Description: "With twelve illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a portrait," 8.5 x 5.25, finely bound in gilt-ruled gold crushed morocco with raised bands; aeg, 190 pp + ads, covers with very minor rubbing, hinges a bit loose, pp toned, illustr toned and spotted (as usual) else nice, clean, fresh copy of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "Tower" on p1, "sentiment" on p131, "years" on p149, no "very" on p168, and "reflection" on p 169 [Smith: Heritage Bookshop].
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD .. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-190 [191-192: ads], engraved portrait, engraved title, and twelve inserted plates with illustrations by S. L. Fildes, publisher's decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in black, cream coated endpapers. First edition, primary binding. Dickens' last work, left unfinished at the time of his death. ". one of most compelling of all literary puzzles." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 206. Smith I, 16. Gimbel A155. Sadleir 694. Wolff 1805. Dunninger bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. Corners turned, faint stain to fore-edge margin of one plate, a very good copy with tight inner hinges and clean, bright cover. An attractive, superior copy of this book. (#173066)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
CHARLES DICKENS - FIRST EDITION WITH UNIQUE EXTRA SPINE. Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall London, 1870.
Price: US$1026.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of Dickens' final novel. Octavo, contemporary quarter bound calf with hand marbled boards. Five raised bands gilt titles and tooling to the spine, with a slight loss to the base. Interesting hinged extra calf flap to the top of the text block, to allow the book to be shelved end on. This is titled in gilt too, and the author's name mis-spelled 'DICKINS'. Spine title is correctly spelled! It is double gilt ruled, raised gilt bands. Brilliant engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens with tissue guard, a superb clean first printing. 12 engraved plates by Luke Fildes, also clean first prints. In collectable condition with light rubbing and some toning to the pages. Charles Dickens' novels regularly revolved around masks, dual identities and other secrets. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, however, "enlarged and strengthened [such matters] in the pursuit of a larger vision, a vision which depicts the 'lanes of light' between the dark pillars of a crypt and which reflects upon 'that mysterious fire which lurks in everything" (Ackroyd, 1056). Unfortunately, at the time of his death on June 9, 1870, Dickens had written only six parts of the book, three of which had been published. The remaining three were published posthumously. Dickens had so closely guarded the plot's outlines, even from his closest friends, that to this day the identity of Drood's killer remains a topic for speculation, discussion and debate. "There are few of [Dickens'] stories which are superior in the matter of composition. one of the best unfinished mystery stories in literature" - This is a fascinating copy, with the hinged extra flap to the text block as a possibly unique detail.
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Chapman & Hall, 1870.
Price: US$1058.21 + shipping
Description: First edition. Adverts dated May 1872. Bound by Lewis & Harris of Bath in half red morocco over red cloth with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy indeed, with small stains to the margins of the plates facing pages 157, 173 and 183. A touch of fading to the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens and twelve full page illustrations by S.L. Fildes. Dickens began the writing of what would be his final novel in the summer of 1869. It would appear that the work gave the author more trouble than any of his former novels and he revised and corrected his work continually, sometimes entirely remodelling sections. The first monthly part was issued in April 1870, but at the time Dickens was suffering periodically from a local haemorrhage and trouble in his foot in between bouts of comparative good health. On 8 June 1870 Dickens's final and fatal seizure came and he passed away peacefully on the following day. Longfellow, on hearing of Dickens's death wrote to Forster expressing a hope that Drood was finished, "It is certainly one of his most beautiful works, if not the most beautiful of all, It would be too sad to think the pen had fallen from his hand, and left it incomplete!"
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Mystery of Edwin Drood. , 1870.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Original pictorial wrappers, housed in custom blue morocco-backed cloth slipcase with inner cloth chemise. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. Six Parts. First edition in monthly parts with most advertisements. Collated against Hatton and Cleaver (pp.371-384). Part Six wrapper is first issue with "Price Eighteenpence" affixed. Part Three lacks first leaf of the Advertiser, last leaf of Chapman & Co.'s advertisement lacks lower outer quarter, lacks Cassell, Petter advertisement; Part Four lacks advertisements for Scottish Widows and Chapman & Co; Part Five lacks Chapman & Hall advertisement; Part Six lacks Chapman & Co. slip. Minor wear, else a very good or better set with all plates.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870, 1870.
Price: US$1122.34 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, scarce in the original cloth in such nice condition. This copy is in Smith's binding variant A, described by Kremers as "primary and earlier" (p. 243), with the sawtooth border to the front board and the rear board stamped in black rather than in blind. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was projected to be published in twelve monthly parts, but Dickens had only completed six parts when he died of a stroke. The finished parts of the novel were gathered and published in the present book form the month following his death, but Dickens had left no notes or instructions for how the novel was to be completed, and as a result "soon a whole Drood 'industry' (which still flourishes today) grew up, concerned with providing a plausible solution to the mystery" (ODNB). Kremers pp. 242-3; Smith 16. Octavo. Original green bead-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decoratively stamped in black, sawtooth and double-line border to front board in black enclosing elaborate black dot-and-line work and gilt lettering, four-line border enclosing central shield device to rear board in black, yellow coated endpapers. Portrait frontispiece by J. H. Baker, vignette title page, and 12 plates after S. L. Fildes. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine ends gently bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, touch of wear to one tip, foxing to endpapers and occasionally to contents, else clean. A very good, attractive copy, cloth and gilt notably bright.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London UK, 1870.
Price: US$1128.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state of The Mystery of Edwin Drood with sawtooth border on near fine first state binding. With twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a portrait. Exceptionally bright and undamaged original green cloth boards. Clean end papers. Tissue guard intact on half title page. Foxing especially the front and rear pages. 190 pp with 32 pages of ads at rear dated 31 August 1870 and complies with all first impression points - Smith 16, p.115. 8v0
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1218.54 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, ex libris Sir William Thomas Madge. Twenty-one volumes bound as fifteen. Octavo (18 x 13 x 53cm). Each title with eight illustrated plates, including a frontispiece (excepting Life and Speeches). Quite thin paper with small print. INSCRIBED in 'Sketches by Boz' by the owner and editor of The Globe newspaper, George C.H. Armstrong (1836-1907), to his close colleague W.T. Madge, with whom he would go on to establish 'The People' in 1882: 'Presented by the | Proprietor of the "Globe" | to Mr. W.T. Madge | as a token of respect | and acknowledgement of | his valuable services as | publisher, | Geo. C.H. Armstrong, | Jan. 1st 1872 | 110 Strand.' Contemporary red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching grained cloth over boards. All edges gilt, with marbled endpapers. Internally crisp and clean. Bindings toned to spines, with some moderate general wear, and some re-colouring to joints and corners. Very good. Featuring all of Dickens' complete novels, as well as 'Pictures from Italy,' 'American Notes', 'The Uncommercial Traveller,' and 'A Child's History of England'. Featuring additionally Camden's Life of Dickens, and 'Speeches', but not including 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood.'. Ex Libris Sir William Thomas Madge (1845-1927), publisher, and later manager of 'The Globe' newspaper, 1867-1908.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Description: In original six parts, including first state of No. 6, with price cancel mounted to upper wrapper; uniformly bound in original blue-green pictorial wrappers; 12 plates and tissue guards present; additional illustrated advertisements, including one lithographed in colors at rear of No. 1 and another advertising cork hats printed on cork bound in rear of No. 2. Wrappers of No. 1 quite worn and darkened with old paper reinforcement to match but now rather equally ragged; spines are all partially perished at base, old stain to No. 3, else a Near Very Good or better set housed in custom cloth and paper-covered slipcase. GIMBEL A154.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Description: With Illustrations. Six monthly parts, all issued, in pictorial blue-green wrappers. London: Chapman & Hall, April - September, 1870. First Edition One of the best known unfinished mysteries in literature. A better than average set, the spines intact, and minimal chipping and soiling to the wrappers. Contains all of the "Drood Advertiser" pages with the notable exception of the Cork plate. Preferred state of wrapper in Part VI, with "eighteen pence" pasted over the original price. Housed in a half leather solander case.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. London Chapman and Hall 1870, 1870.
Price: US$1485.00 + shipping
Description: 6 volumes. First Edition in the six original monthly parts. Earliest issue of Part 6 with the "Price Eighteenpence" slip pasted over the one shilling price on the front wrapper, with the "Edwin Drood Advertiser" in each part. With the engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved title-page issued when Part No. 6 was issued, and 12 additional wood-engraved plates after S. L. Fildes. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, housed in a black cloth foldover case, with lettering label mimicking the design of the title on the wrappers. A very well preserved and handsome set with some minor chipping at the spine panels. FIRST EDITION OF THIS, DICKENS' LAST NOVEL, IN THE ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. A very nice set agreeing with the collation given in Hatton and Cleaver with very few exceptions, the "cork" ad not present. Dickens' last and unfinished work. Inspired by and intended to rival Wilkie Collins' THE MOONSTONE, the mystery's elusive solution has been attempted by numerous authors since.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$1507.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The final uncompleted work of Charles Dickens, here in the original six serialised parts. Complete in the six original parts.The first issue of Part VI, with the 'eighteenpence' slip pasted over the original on shilling price to the head of the front wrap.Complete with all twelve plates called for, a well as a portrait frontispiece and engraved title page to Part VI.Part I is complete with all ads.Part II is lacking the 'Cork Hats' advert.Part III is complete with all ads.Part IV is complete with all ads, and a duplicate of the final 'Chapman & Co Entire Wheat Flour' advert.Part V lacks pages 1-2, and 7-8 of 'Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications'.Part VI lacks the 'Wilcox & Gibbs "A New World at Home"' advert.In a custom cloth box, in a very good indeed condition.'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was Dickens' final work, left unfinished upon his death in June 1870 - of the twelve instalments planned only these six had been written. As Dickens hadn't left a clear or detailed plan as to the continuation or resolution of the plot, the 'Mystery' was left unsolved.Charles Dickens is possibly the most well-known Victorian author, with his fifteen novels still being widely read and performed, as well as being studied in school and enjoyed by people of all ages. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, generally smart. A little loss of paper to the backstrips, particularly to Parts I, II, III, IV, and VI. Prior owner's pencil note to the head of each wrap. Front wrap of Part II is detached but present, rear wrap of Part VI is detached but present. Light discolouration to the wraps, particularly to Part I. Front wrap of Part I is edge worn with some chips and loss, lifting a little to the head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots. Part V's 'Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications' advert is loose. Light marks to the custom cloth box. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$1667.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The original six parts of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', the final unfinished work of Charles Dickens here in the original serialised parts. Complete in the six original parts - no more parts were published as Dickens died whilst writing.First issue, with the "eighteenpence" slip over the one shilling price to the front wrap of Part VI.Complete with all twelve plates called for, a well as a portrait frontispiece and engraved title page to Part VI.Collated; Part I lacks page 26/27 of the front advertisements and the four pages of adverts for 'Henry Brett' to the rear; Part III lacks all adverts to the rear besides the Chapman, Petter, and Galpin 'Publications' adverts; Part V lacking the eight pages of Chapman & Halls 'Recent Publication' adverts to the rear; and Part VI bound without the Wilcox and Gibbs advert 'Concerning Stitches' to the rear.The very scarce fragile advert for 'Cork Hats' to the rear of Part II is present but detached.In a custom cloth box, in a very good indeed condition.'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was Dickens' final work, left unfinished upon his death in June 1870 - of the twelve instalments planned only these six had been written. As Dickens hadn't left a clear or detailed plan as to the continuation or resolution of the plot, the 'Mystery' was left unsolved.Charles Dickens is possibly the most well-known Victorian author, with his fifteen novels still being widely read and performed, as well as being studied in school and enjoyed by people of all ages. In the original publisher's paper wraps, in a custom cloth box. Externally, generally smart. A little edge wear to the wraps resulting in some chips as is usual, heavier to the backstrips. Some discolouration to the wraps and a few light handling marks. Front wrap of Part VI is detached but present. Prior owner's pencil note to the head of the front wrap of Part II, IV, V, and VI. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots, including to the plates. Portrait frontispiece to Part VI is detached but present. Cloth box with a few light parts, in a very good indeed condition. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. , 1870.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Twelve Illustrations by S. L. Fildes, and a Portrait. London: Chapman & Hall, [April - September] 1870. First edition. A total of 14 illustrations, including a portrait of Dickens and a vignette title-page. Octavo. [viii,1]-190,[2] pp. In the original six monthly parts, as issued, in blue paper wrappers. Housed in a green three-quarter leather pull-off case in a green cloth chemise. Wrappers show some general light wear but,some minor expert repair and are very good overall. The front wrap on Part 1 has a small ink spot near one edge and shows a bit more wear than the other wrappers. Almost all advertisements are present, including the rare cork ad in Part 2, lacking only four pages (nos. 7 - 10) of the "Edwin Drood Advertiser" in Part 3 and the eight-page Chapman & Hall catalog in Part 5. Another minor difference, the eight-page Chapman & Hall catalog in Part 1 is not completely unpaginated; pages 2 and 3 are marked as such. Part 6 has the "Eighteenpence" slip pasted over the original price on front wrap as found in the earliest issues. Some plates show mild light foxing. Text leaves are clean. This was Dickens' last work; it was left unfinished at his death in June, 1870. (Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 371-384).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of Edwin Drood and The First 'Conclusion' - John Jasper's Secret Uniformly Bound by Zaehnsdorf DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With Twelve Illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a Portrait. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition in book form of Dickens's final work, left unfinished at the time of his death. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 208 x 133 mm.). vii, [1, "Illustrations"], 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens ("Engraved by J.H. Baker, from a Photograph taken in 1868, by Mason & Co."), wood-engraved vignette title by J. Brown, and twelve wood-engraved plates, two by the firm of Dalziel Brothers, ten by Charles Roberts, all after Samuel Luke Fildes. Occasional marginal staining, wood-engraved plate facing p. 98 with small (1/4 inch) marginal tear. A very good copy. Together with: [EDWIN DROOD], MORFORD, Henry, attributed to]. John Jasper's Secret: Being a Narrative of Certain Events Following and Explaining "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." With Twenty Illustrations. London: Publishing Offices, 1872. First English edition in book form. Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 201 x 133 mm.). [iv], 252 pp. Twenty wood-engraved plates. Uniformly bound ca. 1920 by Zaehnsdorf for the Gardenside Bookshop, Boston (stamp-signed in black on verso of front free- endpapers). Full polished tan calf, covers decoratively bordered in gilt. Gilt corner pieces with small floral onlays in black morocco, decorative center pieces stamped in blind. Spines with five raised band decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with small brown morocco floral onlays. Edwin Drood with two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt, John Jasper's Secret with one brown morocco label lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges, decorative turn-ins, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt. Joints a little rubbed but quite sound. A very attractive example housed together in a felt-lined fitted marbled board slipcase. "When Dickens died on June 9, 1870, he had completed only enough of his manuscript to make up six instalments, leaving unfinished a work which had commanded the widest attention for its opening numbers, and which promised to be one of his most effective and popular books. Although only three parts had been issued prior to his 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 âThe Mystery.' The Author during the writing of the story never disclosed the ultimate development of his plot" (Hatton and Cleaver). John Jasper's Secret was the first of many attempts to solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The work was written by the New York journalist Henry Morford (1823-1881) and his wife. Smith, 16; Gimbel H330; Sadleir 705a; Not in Sadleir.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1827.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp.vii,190. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 12 plates. Contains original blue wrapper "No.V. August, 1870 Price 1 Shilling" bound in contemporary half morocco, expertly and invisibly recased. Top edge gilt. Extremely rare, complete last novel in perfect condition.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
DICKENS, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870, 1870.
Price: US$1924.01 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, an example of both the primary and secondary cloth bindings of the first edition, housed together. John Carter identified the two bindings in his 1932 classic Binding Variants (pp. 108-9), alongside a tertiary binding without gilt embellishment. Carter uses the entry to note the importance of studying variations in cloth for Dickens's novels, which were at the time mostly ignored in the bibliography of the author; Eckel, Carter notes, left them "severely alone". Subsequent bibliographic study of the cloth variants by Walter Smith and Lars Kremers has confirmed Carter's conclusions. Dickens's novels were printed in large batches and bound and issued over time as demand required. As often, the trend in binding style as the original publication date receded was towards simplicity and lower cost. The changes here between the two copies are indicative of this, the secondary copy having the removal of a roll, stamping in blind rather than in black, and plain rather than coloured endpapers. Copy A has a publisher's catalogue at the rear dated August 1870 (the month of publication), copy B a catalogue dated June 1872. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was projected to be published in twelve monthly parts, but Dickens had only completed six parts when he died of a stroke. The finished parts of the novel were gathered and published in the present book form the month following his death, but Dickens had left no notes or instructions for how the novel was to be completed, and as a result "soon a whole Drood 'industry' (which still flourishes today) grew up, concerned with providing a plausible solution to the mystery" (ODNB). John Carter, Binding Variants, 1932; Kremers pp. 242-3; Smith 16. 2 copies, octavo. Copy A: Original green bead-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decoratively stamped in black, sawtooth and double-line border to front board in black enclosing elaborate black dot-and-line work and gilt lettering, four-line border enclosing central shield device to rear board in black, yellow coated endpapers. Copy B: binding similar to above, with the sawtooth roll removed, the rear cover centrepiece replaced with a floral device blocked in blind, plain endpapers. Both housed together in a custom cloth solander box, spine lettered "Edwin Drood / Dickens / Original Cloth / 1st & 2nd issue". Portrait frontispiece by J. H. Baker, vignette title page, and 12 plates after S. L. Fildes. Copy A with contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper alongside blindstamp of W. H. Smith booksellers; copy B with 20th-century book label to front pastedown of Richard Jerman of Exeter and blindstamp of S. Drayton & Sons, Exeter to front free endpaper; recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Both lightly rubbed, copy A otherwise fine, copy B with neat repair to joint ends and inner hinges, very good.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2164.64 + shipping
Description: First edition. VII, (1), 190, (2) + 1 engraved portrait + 1 engraved title leaf + 12 plates + advertisements. Near contemporary (ca 1900) brown and green half morocco binding with lavishly gilt spine with five raised bands, upper edges gilt, other edges deckled, original printed wrappers preserved at the end of the book. Owner's engraved book-plate (Frederic J. Clarke) on paste-down endpaper. Spine somewhat faded, the topmost raised band and the lower corners slightly rubbed. Page 9 with ca 25 x 7 mm triangular chip in the margin, pages 25-28 with tiny tear (ca 8 mm) at the upper edge, pages 29-32 with triangular chip at the upper edge measuring ca 25 x 4 mm. Interior else with some very faint and occasional foxing, else fine. All original printed blue wrappers preserved at the end of the book, back wrapper of booklet no. VI somewhat soiled, wrappers else very well kept. Front wrapper of booklet no. II lacks the full dot after 'II', inside of back wrapper has one word on the last line instead of seven, the advertisements lack the so called 'Cork Hat Slip' which was originally attached at the end of no. II. Front wrapper of booklet no. III lacks the full dot after 'III'. Booklet number V lacks the advertisments at the back, 'Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications'. Booklet no. VI lacks the advertisements at the front ('The Edwin Drood Advertiser') as well as at the back. All other details conform with Hatton & Cleaver's bibliography (pp. 373-383). Dickens last, unfinished novel beautifully bound in a near contemporary half morocco binding with all original printed blue wrappers preserved. Originally published in six parts, each with advertisments.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Dickens' final novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens, 12 engraved plates. An exceptional presentation. Charles Dickensâ novels regularly revolved around masks, dual identities and other secrets. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, however, âenlarged and strengthened [such matters] in the pursuit of a larger vision, a vision which depicts the âlanes of lightâ between the dark pillars of a crypt and which reflects upon âthat mysterious fire which lurks in everythingâ (Ackroyd, 1056). Unfortunately, at the time of his death on June 9, 1870, Dickens had written only six parts of the book, three of which had been published. The remaining three were published posthumously. Dickens had so closely guarded the plotâs outlines, even from his closest friends, that to this day the identity of Droodâs killer remains a topic for speculation, discussion and debate. âThere are few of [Dickensâ] stories which are superior in the matter of composition⦠one of the best unfinished mystery stories in literatureâ (Eckel, 96). This tantalizing tale has been adapted in film and television several times.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
DICKENS Charles FILDES S. L.. Mystery of Edwin Drood. , 1870.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Description: "DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. Six parts (all published). Octavo, original green paper wrappers respined. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $2200.First edition in original parts of Dickens' last book, a tantalizingly incomplete murder mystery, illustrated with 14 engraved plates after designs by Luke Fildes and with the wrapper of Part VI in the earliest state. "There are few of [Dickens'] stories which are superior in the matter of composition [It is] one of the best unfinished mystery stories in literature" (Eckel, 96-97). At the time of his death (June 9, 1870), Dickens had written only six parts, three of which had been published. The remaining three were published posthumously. Dickens kept the outlines of the plot a secret, even from his close friends, and to this day the identity of Edwin Drood's murderer remains fertile ground for speculation (including a 1985 Broadway musical, Drood, in which each audience's vote determines that performance's conclusion). Dickens' novels had always been much concerned with secrets, with dual identities and masks; but here these matters "are enlarged and strengthened in the pursuit of a larger vision, a vision which depicts the 'lanes of light' between the dark pillars of a crypt and which reflects upon 'that mysterious fire which lurks in everything'" (Ackroyd, 1056). "The design for the front [wrapper] was by C.A. Collins (brother of Wilkie Collins), and therein are depicted eight incidents of the story, which it is frequently suggested have a bearing on the eventual solution" (Hatton & Cleaver, 373). With all advertisements called for except the 4-page Wilcox & Gibbs insert at the rear of Part IV and the 8-page Chapman & Hall inserts at the rears of Parts V and VI, and the rare "cork" advertisement in Part II. With wrapper of Part VI in the earliest state, with "Eighteenpence" slip pasted over the printed text, "Price One Shilling." Hatton & Cleaver, 373-384. Eckel, 96-98. Plates and text in excellent condition, original wrappers respined, with some toning and wear. A very good copy."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Six monthly periodicals, published April 1870 to September 1870. Softcover, bound in wraps, housed in custom morocco backed case. Lacks Chapman and Hall ad. General soiling, chipping and creasing to wraps, mostly along the spines.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. The mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Title and contents at back of Volume VI. Complete with all publisher's advertisements. With 12 illustrations and portrait after S.L. Fields. Includes "Price Eighteenpence" slip pasted over the one shilling price on the front wrapper of Volume VI. Bound in original blue-green wrappers with very light wear to some of the edges. Preserved in a green clamshell box and matching slipcover; an excellent copy in wonderful condition.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2875.00 + shipping
Description: 6 parts. 12 illus. plus engraved title and portrait of Dickens in Part VI, 8.5 x 5.5", printed blue-green wraps, 190pp + notes + contents + ads, covers a bit used and darkened (esp. part 1), tissue guard between illus. missing from part 1, pp toned with some edge-wear and scattered finger soiling else a nice set; in three-piece leather-backed cloth case (a bit worn and darkened but still good). FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS (with 8pp Chapman & Hall ad in Part II (loose)), cork had ad in part V, and "Price Eighteenpence" pasted over price on front cover of Part IV. Nice set.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Chapman & Hall, Ltd, London, 1870.
Price: US$3075.55 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in decorative boards. Small owner printed stamp on bottom of 2nd FEP. Light rubbing along panel edges and spine. First issue published in 1870 with "Tower" on p.1, "sentiment" on p.131, "years" on p.149, no "very" on p.168, and "reflection" on p.169.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings bound in the ORIGINAL printed wrappers from the publisher. A beautiful set. All the wrappers are ORIGINAL and in great shape. This set has benefitted from some professional restoration to the spines for preservation. The pages are clean. Overall, a lovely set housed in a custom clamshell slipcase.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition in the earliest issue 6 parts (all published. A lovely set with an engraved portrait of Dickens by J.H. Baker, vignette title-page and 12 engraved plates by Samuel Luke Fildes. This set has the ALL the important ads including the cork advertising slip in the back of Volume 2, the rare Chapman & Hall ad in part V, the "Eighteenpence" over price in Volume 6 and ALL the Edwin Drood Advertisers are present. The books are bound in the original blue-green pictorial wrappers with a narrow tear to top of front wrapper of part 1 touching a few letters and some wear to the edges. The pages are clean with some discoloration but NO writing in the books. An attractive set in collector's condition. We buy Dickens First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition in ORIGINAL monthly parts. A beautiful set. This set is 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. The books are bound in the ORIGINAL blue-green pictorial wrappers with light wear to the edges. Overall, a wonderful set housed in a beautiful custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$6760.00 + shipping
Description: 215 x 140 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2). vii, [1] (blank), 190 pp. Without the leaf of publisher's ads. VERY ATTRACTIVE SCARLET CRUSHED MOROCCO BY CEDRIC CHIVERS (stamp-signed on rear turn-in) ca. 1911, covers framed by one blind and two gilt fillets, upper cover with INLAID PAINTED VELLUCENT ESCUTCHEON with the arms of the city of Rochester within a "tiled" gilt frame, the inlay enclosed by Art Nouveau floral design incorporating a heart motif, an onlaid citron morocco heart at the foot of the design, three raised bands dividing the spine into two small compartments, slightly larger compartment with gilt titling, and an elongated compartment with inlaid vellucent and gilt escutcheon displaying the arms of the county of Kent, within similar Art Nouveau tooling featuring an onlaid citron heart, turn-ins ruled in gilt, with dot cornerpieces, leather hinges, red watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait, engraved vignette title, and 12 plates (as called for) by S. L. Fildes, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with reproductions of a black & white portrait of Fildes and an engraved portrait of John Forster (both taken from contemporary publications?), a reduced reproduction of the original green paper wrapper cover (all three of these mounted in heavy stock frames), additional calligraphed title page noting extra-illustrations, 16 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS, FOUR OF THESE WATERCOLORS, 13 dry-point, all but one mounted in heavy stock frames (one drawn directly on heavy stock), all captioned, and all with tissue guards. Front flyleaf with embossed ex-libris of Dana C. Bradford. With "The Last Book," a seven-page excerpt from Forster's "Life of Dickens," mounted in frames at rear, following a handwritten section title page. âSlight rippling of some of the inserted leaves, text faintly yellowed because of paper stock (as no doubt in all copies), perhaps a whisper of wear to the binding, but still and easily a very fine copy. In terms of content, illustration, binding, and condition, this item is obviously of very considerable appeal. Dickens' final, unfinished novel, "Edwin Drood," is a murder mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Set in a lightly fictionalized version of Rochester, near which Dickens was living, the plot involves a marriage engagement between the two orphans Drood and Rosa Budd, made by their parents and distasteful to both of them. When Drood disappears, suspicion falls heavily on Neville, another orphaned young man, who is in love with Rosa. Neville has the reader's sympathy, and we can only hope that Drood's sinister and scheming uncle Jasper is the culprit. A distinguished artist who did many famous portraits in his later years, Samuel Luke Fildes (1844-1927) began as an illustrator known especially for powerful black and white images of social realism; his career was measurably advanced by his selection as the artist to execute the plates in "Edwin Drood." Cedric Chivers opened his Bath bindery in the 1880s, producing various kinds of fine decorative bindings, but specializing in a "vellucent" binding based on the 18th century painted vellum work of Edwards of Halifax. Here, he has used the vellucent technique to create the shields with the arms of Rochester and Kent inlaid on the cover and spine. The anonymous watercolors here are extremely attractive, being skillfully done in pleasing colors. They are mostly depictions of the novel's localities, generally in Rochester.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.