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Price: US$31.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictorial Cover. Very Good +++. First Edition - Original Issue. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. -- This is an original, complete issue of 16 pages dated May 14, 1870 -- Vol. 1, No. 20 -- Illustrated -- covers and contents are tight, very nice condition -- The Front page has an excellent full page engraving of Christ titled "The Last Supper" taken from the painting of Leonardo Da Vinci, page 308 has a full page engraving titled "Shampooing In Japan", Page 309 has the continuation of the Dickens story titled "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood" (Being published in Serial Form), page 312 has a full page engraving titled "Easter Decorations", page 313 has a full page engraving titled "May" by Gavarni, page 316 has a full page engraving titled "Toboggin", page 317 has a full page engraving titled "Japanese Ladies Toilet" -- Other text items consist mainly of articles taken from other publications such as: The Graphic, Cassel's Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine --
Seller: JB Company USA, HUMBOLDT, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictorial Cover. Very Good +++. First Edition - Original Issue. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. -- This is an original, complete issue of 16 pages dated July 23, 1870 -- Vol. 1, No. 30 -- Illustrated -- covers and contents are tight, very nice condition -- The Front page has an illustration titled "On The Beach At Newport", Page 468 has a full page engraving titled "Mdlle. Christine Nilsson", Page 469 has another serial issue of "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood" by Charles Dickens, page 472 has a full page engraving titled "Marie Antoinette" showing her being lead away to prison after the courts condemnation, from the painting of Paul Delaroche, page 473 has a full page engraving titled "Jo And The Professor" from Miss Alcott's "Little Women", page 476 has a full page engraving titled "July" by Gavarni, page 477 has a full page engraving titled "Blithe May Day" from the painting by J. Pettie -- Other text items consist mainly of articles taken from other publications such as: All The Year Round, London Society, Chamber's Journal --
Seller: JB Company USA, HUMBOLDT, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fields Osgood & Co., January 1870 Binding: Hardcover HEAVY SPOTTING SOILING, FRONT HINGE CRACKED, RUBBING TO ALL EXTREMITIES, SOME TEARS TO FFEP AND NEXT TWO PAGES $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: iv, [2], 210 pp [double column]. 2 page gap in pagination as detailed by Smith. DROOD illustrated with 12 b&w cuts after Luke Fildes' originals, and HOLIDAY ROMANCE illustrated with 4 wood engravings in text. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6" The previously uncollected pieces here first appearing in book form are "Some Memories of Charles Dickens", "George Silverman's Explanation", and the "Will of Charles Dickens". Bright spine gilt. Modest binding wear. Foxing, some extensive. Withal, a VG - VG+ copy in a Nr Fine slipcase. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering (Smith Binding Variant A). Publisher's device blindstamped to each board. Custom green cloth slipcase, with gilt stamped black leather title label to spine 1st US book edition, Second Issue (Gimbel A156; Smith AMERICAN 15, pp 413 - 416).
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, 1870.
Price: US$179.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green gilt cloth with brown endpapers. A tight, clean and unmarked copy with minor light brown stain to bottom corner of first 4 leaves, else better than very good, bright and solid. Extremely scarce.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, and Some Uncollected Pieces. , 1870.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: With Illustrations. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. Original green cloth. First American Edition, second issue with added material -- of the tale left unfinished at the time of Dickens's death in June 1870. In addition to DROOD, this second issue adds James T. Fields's introductory "Some Memories of Charles Dickens," plus Dickens's "George Silverman's Explanation," "Holiday Romance," "Sketches of Young Couples," "New Uncommercial Samples" plus "The Will of Charles Dickens." Since 1867, Ticknor & Fields (and then Fields Osgood) had been Dickens's authorized publisher in America; they had serialized DROOD in their weekly Every Saturday, and then published this book in early September. (Ticknor & Fields had specifically commissioned Dickens to write "Holiday Romance," so that it could appear in their children's periodical Our Young Folks in 1868.) Harper also serialized DROOD in a monthly Dickens supplement to Harper's Weekly, but did not get their book edition out until late September. This copy is in the original green cloth, in the second binding state -- 9-1/16 inches tall, with a generic design replacing the FO&Co emblem on the covers, and with a JRO&Co monogram (rather than FO&Co) at the foot of the spine: when James T. Fields retired on New Year's Day 1871, the firm became James R. Osgood & Company. The volume is in very good condition (minor external wear, pp 13-16 edge-worn with tape mend at gutter, also reinforced at the gutter of the frontispiece). Smith pp 412-416; Podeschi (Yale) A156; Carr (UTexas) B278; Wilkins p. 35 (Smith notes that later copies were bound without the FO&Co initials on the covers, but does not note any change in spine monogram; otherwise this JRO&Co binding is is not cited by any of these sources).
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pub by Fields, Osgood, 1870, same date TP & CP, NAP, 1st American Edition. VG cond. hardcover now in archival Brodart, no dj. Reddish-brown cloth over bds w/ blindstamped framing on front cover, & slightly muted gilt dec & lettering on spine. Approx 1/8" loss to head of backstrip w/ no assoc damage to binding, o/w only slight exterior wear. Brown eps. P/O's small stamp & signature (dated 1870) on 2nd blank page. Double column text. Illus in b&w. 210pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, and Some Uncollected Pieces. , 1870.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: With Illustrations. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. Original green cloth. First American Edition, second and usual issue with added material -- of the tale left unfinished at the time of Dickens's death in June 1870. The scarce earlier issue, withOUT the "Uncollected Pieces," was bound only in wrappers; furthermore, the subsequent additions are just that -- the text of DROOD is exactly the same in both issues. This has led some bibliographers to speculate that the two issues may be from the same printing, with only a change in the title page: Smith, noting that he could not find a publication date for the first issue, says "Perhaps such copies represent a prepublication state rather than an issue and were published simultaneously with copies which had the uncollected pieces.". The "Uncollected Pieces" consist of James T. Fields's introductory "Some Memories of Charles Dickens," plus Dickens's "George Silverman's Explanation," "Holiday Romance," "Sketches of Young Couples," and "New Uncommercial Samples," plus "The Will of Charles Dickens." Since 1867, Ticknor & Fields (and then Fields Osgood) had been Dickens's authorized publisher in America; they had serialized DROOD in their weekly Every Saturday, and then published this book in early September. (Ticknor & Fields had specifically commissioned Dickens to write "Holiday Romance," so that it could appear in their children's periodical Our Young Folks in 1868.) Harper also serialized DROOD in a monthly Dickens supplement to Harper's Weekly, but did not get their book edition out until late September. This copy is in the primary binding state -- 9-7/16 inches tall, with the FO&Co emblem on the covers and at the foot of the spine -- and it is green (one of three colors without priority). The volume is in near-fine condition (very minor wear at the spine ends). Smith pp 412-416; Podeschi (Yale) A156; Carr (UTexas) B278; Wilkins p. 35.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$403.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 210. Illustrated. Paper wraps. Front cover chipped and detached. Rear cover missing and last page detached. Good.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. , 1870.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. 2 pp preliminary ads plus 4+4 pp terminal ads dated Oct 1870. Original yellow-brown pictorial wrappers. Early (second) American edition, published in late September, about three weeks after Fields Osgood's edition -- and about three months after Dickens's death in June left this tale unfinished. The front cover illustration, the same as appeared on the six UK parts, was the work of Charles A. Collins -- Dickens's son-in-law, and Wilkie's brother; the scenes shown formed the basis for the numerous attempts, after Dickens's death, to complete or "solve" the mystery. Harper had been serializing DROOD in parts, as a monthly Dickens supplement to their Harper's Weekly (but Fields Osgood had earlier paid Dickens an advance for book publication). The Harper serialization -- as well as the fact that this Harper edition came out only in wrappers -- probably explains why Harper's edition is so scarce today: many of their readers had already read the tale serially. This copy does bear the (earliest and usual) date October 1870 on both the ads and rear cover, and the preliminary list of titles properly ends with No. 349. This copy does NOT have the Dickens portrait leaf, which Smith notes is true with some copies. Copies without that leaf may be a later state, but possibly copies WITH it may be a later state; a third possibility is that some initial buyers removed that leaf (for framing?) in honor of the author who had just died. Condition is very good, with very little of the wrapper lacking but with a couple of dampstains affecting the front cover and first leaves. This Harper edition is MUCH scarcer than the Fields Osgood edition, for the reasons cited above; this is the first time in 40 years that we have offered it in original wrappers. Smith pp 417-418; curiously not in Podeschi (Yale); Carr (UTexas) B279.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: The complete first appearance of The Mystery of Edwin Drood as serialized in Every Saturday (April 9, 1870 to September 17, 1870). 880pp. Brown half calf, spine lettered in gold. Also includes the obituary of Charles Dickens (July 2, 1870, p. 418) and an essay on the unfinished novel (September 17, 1870, p.595). Illustrated with spectacular engravings by C. G. Bush, John Gilbert, Godefroy Durand, Gavarni, Pearson, Bodmer, and many others. Comes with a scarce contemporary Charles Dickens silk bookmark manufactured by Bollans & Co., of Leamington. Covers are worn, front cover partially split at spine, some very minor insect damage to the edges of some of the leaves. Binding is still solid. Internally very clean. At the time of this writing this is the only complete set of The Mystery of Edwin Drood published by Osgood available. ; Folio.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.