* DICKENS, CHARLES The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman & Hall, April - September, 1870. 6 parts. 8vo, original blue-green wraps. Housed in green crushed morocco solander box, gilt-lettered spine, green cloth chemise. First edition, first issue, earliest issue of part 6 with the "eighteenpence" slip pasted over the one shilling price on the front wrap, also including the often missing "Cork Hats" slip in part 2. With 12 plates by S.L. Fildes. Light soiling and marginal chipping with some loss to some wraps; lacking 2 pp. ads to part 4 and 8 pp. of ads to part 5; scattered brownspotting. Estimate $ 800-1,200 Property from the Collection of Harold Hartshorne, Jr., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Literature: Hatton & Cleaver, 373-384
* DICKENS, CHARLES The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman & Hall, April - September, 1870. 6 parts. 8vo, original blue-green wraps. Housed in green crushed morocco solander box, gilt-lettered spine, green cloth chemise. First edition, first issue, earliest issue of part 6 with the "eighteenpence" slip pasted over the one shilling price on the front wrap, also including the often missing "Cork Hats" slip in part 2. With 12 plates by S.L. Fildes. Light soiling and marginal chipping with some loss to some wraps; lacking 2 pp. ads to part 4 and 8 pp. of ads to part 5; scattered brownspotting. Estimate $ 800-1,200 Property from the Collection of Harold Hartshorne, Jr., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Literature: Hatton & Cleaver, 373-384
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