First edition of Dickens's final novel — with the eponymous mystery famously left unsolved at the author's death.
Very good.
Price: $750.00
As with most of his novels, DROOD was first being published in parts. However, Dickens died having completed only enough chapters for six (of the traditionally 20) parts. The completed chapters were collected and published in the single volume here in August, 1870 —including the final completed chapters 21-23, which did not appear in serial form until September 1870. The lack of the mystery's resolution has spurred many a writer to attempt an ending, marking this book as especially important in the world of Dickensian descendants.
Read more: Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, I.16.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. Octavo, 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens and engraved title page, plus 12 full-page. plates by S.L. Fildes. Publisher's ads at rear (Smith "first secondary binding"). viii, 190, [4], 30, [8] pages. Spine a little toned, moderate wear to joints and other extremities. Rear hinge just starting, still firm. Some foxing to edges and engraved plates.
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