Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870

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Author: Dickens, Charles
Title: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Place Published: London
Publisher:Chapman & Hall
Date Published: 1870
Description:

viii, 190 pp. With steel-engraved portrait frontispiece and additional engraved title page, plus 12 wood-engraved plates of illustrations by S. L. Fildes. (8vo) 21.1x13.5 cm (8x5¼"), period quarter morocco over pebbled cloth, tooled and lettered in gilt on spine, red morocco lettering piece. First Edition, bound from original parts.

"The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is the final novel by Charles Dickens. It was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death (9 June 1870) and his ending for it is unknown. Consequently, the identity of the murderer remains subject to debate. Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 371-384.
Condition Report: Mild rubbing at spine ends, edges and corners, a few scuffs and scratches to cloth; hinges repaired or just starting, some foxing and soiling to plates; very good.