Dickens, Charles

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD

Chapman and Hall: London, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #22-6502

"With twelve illustrations by S.L. Fildes and a Portrait", 9 x 6", gilt-lettered dec green cloth (first cover with sawtooth border), 190pp + 2pp list of Dickens' works + 32pp publisher's catalogue dated "Aug. 31, 1870", covers lightly rubbed, spine a bit dull, extremities bumped and fraying, spotting and finger soiling to text, a rather loose copy with textblock cracking at various pp, but still a FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with crucial points from Smith's Bibliography; all twelve plates plus portrait included.

Price: $195.00