Dickens Edwin Drood in original parts 1870
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7000 SEK
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Beschreibung
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS. (6). DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. First edition in the original six parts. London (Chapman & Hall) 1870.
8:o. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait, extra engraved title with vignette, 12 wood-engraved plates Luke Fields (all).
Blue printed original decorated wrappers, partly somewhat worn, spines with damages at head and foot.
With all advertisements, even the very rare "Cork Hat"slip in part II and the 8 pp. advertisements in part V. 1st issue wrappers to part VI: "Price eighteen pence" is pasted on. Part I and V unopened. Part V has an additional slip "Chapman & Hall" - 9 lines. 6 parts loose in green half morocco case, somewhat worn, gilt back. First edition.
All published. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens´s death on 9 June 1870, and his ending for it is unknown.
PROVENANCE
IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg, Gothenburgh, Sweden.
Auktionsnummer:
6064
Datum:
2016-12-20