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[EDWIN DROOD]. -- DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. 8o. 38 pages of advertisements bound at end. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens and engraved vignette title-page and 12 plates by Samuel Luke Fildes. Original cloth, decorated in gilt and black, blindstamped on back cover. FIRST EDITION, later issue, in a variant binding (Carter's binding B) with back cover blindstamped, without the sawtooth border on the front cover, and with the ads dated May 1872. This copy appears to be lacking the last leaf of W.H. Smith's ads. Carter Binding Variants, pp.108-109; Eckel, pp.96-98; Smith I:16.
[With:] [JAMES, Thomas P.]. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Complete. - Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood. By the Spirit-Pen of Charles Dickens, Through a Medium. Brattleboro, Vermont: T.P. James, 1873. 8o. Original cloth. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate). Yale/Gimbel B310. -- SAUNDERS, Montagu. The Mystery in the Drood Family. Cambridge: The University Press, 1914. 8o. Original cloth. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate). Yale/Gimbel H394. -- WALTERS, J. Cuming. The Complete Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens. The History, Continuations, and Solutions (1870-1912). London: Chapman and Hall, 1912. 8o. Original cloth. Provenance: T. Henry Foster (bookplate, two typed letters tipped to front free endpaper); Kenyon Starling (bookplate). -- LANG, Andrew. The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot. London: Chapman and Hall, 1905. 8o. Original cloth. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate). Yale/Gimbel H288. -- [JACKSON, Henry]. About Edwin Drood. Cambridge: The University Press, 1911. 8o. Original cloth. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate). Yale/Gimbel H259. -- PROCTOR, Richard A. Watched by the Dead. London: W.H. Allen, 1887. 8o. Additional vignette title-page. Original cloth. Yale/Gimbel H375. -- AYLMER, Felix. The Drood Case. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964. 8o. Plates. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate). -- BAKER, Richard M. The Drood Murder Case. Five Studies in Dickens's Edwin Drood. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951. 8o. Original cloth; dust jacket. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate). -- NICOLL, W. Robertson. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood.' A Study in the Method of Dickens. London, etc.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. Modern half morocco. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate). Together 10 volumes, condition varies. (10)
[With:] [JAMES, Thomas P.]. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Complete. - Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood. By the Spirit-Pen of Charles Dickens, Through a Medium. Brattleboro, Vermont: T.P. James, 1873. 8