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.

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.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870), and CAMDEN, John Hotten (1832-1873), [CRUIKSHANK, PHIZ, BARNARD, et al., illustrators]. [Works of Charles Dickens:] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. [with] Charles Dickens: The Story of His Life [and] Speeches, Literary and Social. The "Charles Dickens" Edition. London: Chapman and Hall [and] John Camden Hotten, no date [circa 1870], 1870.

Price: US$1221.96 + 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