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Lot 113
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 -
400
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$910
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Lot Description
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, April-September 1870.
6 original parts, 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker from a photograph, engraved title after Luke Fildes, 12 wood-engraved plates by Dalziel, C. Roberts and others after Fildes. Original blue-green pictorial wrappers (light chipping to spine ends, a few short closed tears to edges); morocco-backed slipcase and folding chemise.
FIRST EDITION, IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, WITH ALL ADVERTISEMENTS PRESENT, listed in Hatton and Cleaver, INCLUDING THE SCARCE “CORK HAT” AD IN PART II. Eckel pp.96-98; Gimbel A154; Hatton and Cleaver pp.373-384.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
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