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No DJ. Green cloth boards with gilts titles and an embossed leaf design on the spine. (See Photos)32 Illustrations throughout the book.Gilt Facsimilie of Dickens' signature on front cover.RARE- Could Not Find Any BOOK that existed on the internet anywhere. This is a RARE find in Perfect condition and a prize for a collector.

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.. 1870. First Edition; First Printing. Fine binding. 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. .

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. FIRST EDITION. 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.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. 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.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. Fresh and unopened First edition, in the original monthly parts as published between April and September 1870, and a particularly nice set. The author's final work, it remained unfinished at the time of his death and has prompted much speculation as to the resolution of the mystery. Parts 1-5 have all the points called for by Hatton and Cleaver except for the absence of the "Cork Hat" slip in part 2 (sometimes speculated as indicative of early issue); part VI has variant initial and terminal advertisements (those at front matching that of part II and possibly supplied), however has the earlier issue overprice slip printed "Price Eighteenpence" to the front wrapper. 6 monthly parts, as issued. Original blue-green printed wrappers. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco solander box and green cloth chemise. With engraved title page, frontispiece, and 12 plates. Part VI with slight repair to spine and soiling, part 5 with trivial wear at ends, else a very fresh set,… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. 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… Read More

London (April-Sept.) 1870: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. In the original monthly parts, in printed wrappers; with the famous "Cork ad" in part II. Twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a portrait; [i-v]vi-vii, [1]2-190[192]. ALL wrappers are correct. Part VI has the first issue point of "Price Eighteenpence" pasted onto front wrap. This exceptional set collates complete, save for the scarce (perhaps rare) 8 page Chapman & Hall ad in part V. Text is UNOPENED, therefore unread, in part V. All plates are fine; spines are expertly renewed on parts I, II and VI. Neat owner name on front wrap of part II. Housed in a handsome three-quarter leather solander, pull-off-top slipcase, with chemise. [Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 373-384]. Provenance: The (Thomas) Hatton & Cleaver Collection, The Heritage Bookshop, Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

London (April-Sept.) 1870: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. In the original monthly parts, in printed wrappers; with the famous "Cork ad" in part II. Twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a portrait; [i-v]vi-vii, [1]2-190[192]. ALL wrappers are correct. Part VI has the first issue point of "Price Eighteenpence" pasted onto front wrap. This exceptional set collates complete, save for the scarce (perhaps rare) Chapman & Hall, 8 page ad in part V. All plates are fine; spines are expertly renewed on all parts. Cork ad with edge tears. Housed in a handsome red quarter leather slipcase, with chemise. [Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 373-384]. Provenance: The (Thomas) Hatton & Cleaver Collection, The Heritage Bookshop, Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First Edition. paperback. With Illustrations. Six monthly parts, all issued, in pictorial blue-green wrappers. London: Chapman & Hall, April - September, 1870. First Edition<br/><br/> 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.<br/><br/>

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Samuel Luke Fields. 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 &amp; 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… Read More

London (April-Sept.) 1870: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. In the original monthly parts, in printed wrappers; with the famous "Cork ad" in part II. Twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a portrait; [i-v]vi-vii, [1]2-190[192]. ALL wrappers are correct. Part VI has the first issue point of "Price Eighteenpence" pasted onto front wrap. This exceptional set collates complete, save for the scarce (perhaps rare) 8 page Chapman & Hall ad in part V. All plates are fine; spines are expertly renewed on parts I, II and IV. Cork ad with edge tear. Neat owner name on front wrap of part VI. Housed in a handsome green quarter- leather slipcase, with chemise. [Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 373-384]. Provenance: The (Thomas) Hatton & Cleaver Collection, The Heritage Bookshop, Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Chapman & Hall. London.,1870. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Bound from the original monthly parts, published between April and September 1870. Publishers original blue-green printed wrappers and most of the adverts are bound in. Illustrated with a portrait frontis, which has one small chip to the outer edge and a neat repair to the inner hinge, and 12 plates by S. L. Fildes. Some of the plates have small stain makrs to the margin but not affecting the illustrations. Wrappers lightly rubbed and some edges frayed, a few small chips and marks. Finely bound in contemporary full dark blue crushed morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each decorated with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt. Both boards with elaborate floral borders within a single line mitre, all in gilt. The front board also has Dickens name stamped in gilt tp the centre. Board edges and inner board edges all decorated with floral gilt tooling. Dark blue moire silk endpapers. Top dge gilt,… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First Edition. 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.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. In the publisher's primary cloth binding 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). 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… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Tall 8vo., vii(4)190pp. 2pp. ads for Dickens titles published by Chapman & Hall and a 32pg general Chapman catalog dated August, 31, 1870. Beautiful First Edition in book form, First State binding in original green cloth, borders and decoration in black. Titles in gilt on front board and spine. Frontis portrait, facing title vignette and 12 additional engravings S.L. Fildes. Square and tight with some fairly minor wear to spine ends and tips. Generally quite clean interior with a few very light and scattered spots of foxing; primarily to outer page edges. Frontis tissue guard off-set and fragile; semi-detached but still holding. One or to preliminary pages are loose at the top inch or so but very firm. Cloth and gilt quite bright and fresh. A gorgeous collectable copy. (Hubin p.115).

London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition of Dickens' final novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, double gilt ruled, raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens with tissue guard, 12 engraved plates. In near fine condition with very light rubbing and some toning to the pages.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. 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.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1870, 1870. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 6 MONTHLY PARTS. Original printed wrappers, earliest issue of part 6 with the price pasted over, all ads present, with the cork ad slip in part 2, internally clean and bright, completely unsophisticated, none of the spines have been rebacked, some minor chipping to the head and foot of spine of part 6 otherwise VERY GOOD. Housed in a green cloth solinder slipcase, VERY GOOD, gilt red leather spine labels, worn.

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. 

Original artwork. 1900-1920. A suite of six original watercolour illustrations depicting characters from Charles Dickens' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), with illustrated watercolour title and contents pages. Each portrait signed by the artist in red ink. The images printed on watermarked laid paper with untrimmed rough-cut edges. Condition is very good with toning to the left hand side of the title page. The watercolour portraits themselves remain clean, fresh and bright.� An attractive suite of original watercolour illustrations depicting characters from Dickens' unfinished final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by the noted artist Joseph Clayton "Kyd" Clarke (1857-1937). The set includes Mr. Dick Datchery, Durdles, Deputy, Mr. Tope, Rev. Crisparkle, and Mr. Grewgious. Kyd's first Dickens illustrations appeared in 1887 in Fleet Street Magazine. They achieved immediate popularity, with two published collections appearing shortly after and numerous sets of… Read More