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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
by CHARLES DICKENS
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 1870 Publisher's Victorian decorative dark green cloth boards with bright gilt titles to spine and front, 225 x 155 mm approx. Original pale yellow made end papers, viii + 190 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. Portrait, vignette title page + 12 illustrations by S.L.Fildes as called for. First book edition 1870 with saw tooth border around front cover and all other first issue points. Good (Book- cloth rubbed at extremities with some fraying especially to head and tail of spine, previous owner book plate to front paste down- Adolphus William Ward late Master of Peterhouse Cambridge with later same family book plate to free front end paper - daughter and son in law Cynthia and John Barnes - Sir John was late British Ambassador to The Netherlands and previously Israel. rear end paper starting- mull and sewing cords holding, pencil notes from a reading to rear paste down and occassional margin marking of such references, moderate foxing to prelims with occassional soiling, glue is beginning to fail to back strip with consequential straining to some signatures). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.
Synopsis
The Mystery of Edwin Drood marked the last of Charles Dickens novels, and was left unfinished in its publication. It follows the story of an orphan, Edwin Drood who worked as an engineer for his adoptive father’s firm, and his betrothal to fellow orphan Rosa Bud. As they come to age there is recognition that their love has been replaced by friendship, and the engagement is soon broken off. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his killer was his jealous uncle John Jasper, or a fellow orphan Neville, who were both madly in love with Rosa. The fantastical story intrigues the reader with the darkness the opium dens within the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Charles Dickens passed before the novel could be completed, leaving a tantalizing mystery that will never be solved.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128935
- Title
- THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
- Author
- CHARLES DICKENS
- Illustrator
- S.L.FILDES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- CHAPMAN AND HALL
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1870
- Keywords
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens, First Book Edition, S.L.Fildes Illustrated, Fiction, Victorian Decorative cloth,
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