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DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman & Hall, April-September 1870. 6 parts, 8vo, original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut, newly rebacked, tears in edges of front wrapper of part 1 repaired on verso, some slight fraying to edges of other wrappers, midnight-blue morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, Earliest Issue of Part 6, 14 wood-engraved plates by Luke Fildes (some slight marginal foxing), the Edwin Drood Advertiser in each part and all of the other inserted advertisements (except for the scarce cork slip in part 2) noted in Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 373-384.