DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: William Clowes & Sons for Chapman and Hall, April - September 1870.

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DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: William Clowes & Sons for Chapman and Hall, April - September 1870.

6 original parts, 8° (223 x 141mm). Advertisements. Engraved portrait of Dickens and additional title, 12 wood-engraved plates after S. Luke Fildes. (Occasional light spotting.) Original wrappers (small neat repairs to backstrips, light soiling to upper cover of part I and backstrips), later cloth box. FIRST EDITION IN MONTHLY PARTS. Eckel pp. 96-97; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 373-384.

C.DICKENS & Wilkie COLLINS. No Thoroughfare. A Drama. In five acts. London: C.Whiting printer, published at the office of All The Year Round, 1867.

Small 8° (183 x 122mm). Collation: [A]-E8. (Occasional light marginal spotting.) Original wrappers (lightly soiled), later cloth-backed chemise. FIRST EDITION. Eckel pp. 168-169 (giving format as 12°, and describing the title on the upper wrapper in place of that on the title proper).

C.DICKENS. [Holiday Romance. In four parts. Extracted from Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, January, March-May 1868].

1 volume containing 20pp. extracted from 4 original parts, 8° (220 x 143mm). Drop-head title. Engraved portrait of Dickens, four engraved plates after John Gilbert, wood-engraved initials. (Final pages of two parts laid down.) Later red half morocco gilt, original upper wrapper to one part bound-in. Eckel pp. 200-201.

[Together with:]
11 others by, or on, Dickens (including: Hunted Down. London: John Camden Hotten, [n.d.], 16°; The Battle of Life. London: 1846, 16°, 4th issue title; The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: 1850, 8°; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: 1844, 1 vol. in two, 8°; The Adventures of Oliver Twist. London: 1846, 8°; J.C.ECKEL. The first editions of the writings of Charles Dickens. New York and London: 1932, 8°, limited edition of 750 copies; T.HATTON and A.H.CLEAVER. A Bibliography of the periodical works of Charles Dickens. London: 1933, 4°, large paper edition limited to 250 copies; and four others). (19)

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