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Droodiana collection.

DICKENS, Charles.

Who killed Drood? A collection of 18 books on Edwin Drood, and completing the mystery. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was projected to be published in twelve monthly parts, but Dickens had only finished six parts when he died of a stroke. Dickens had left no notes or instructions for how the novel was to be completed, and as a result "soon a whole Drood 'industry' (which still flourishes today) grew up, concerned with providing a plausible solution to the mystery" (ODNB). Comprising: 1) Orpheus C. Kerr. The Cloven Foot. New York: Carleton, 1870. Original black cloth. First edition. 2) Henry Morford. John Jasper's Secret. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1871. Original black cloth. First US edition. 3) Thomas P. James. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Complete. Or: Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood. Brattleboro VT: Published by T. P. James, 1873. First edition. 4) Alice Meynell. "How Edwin Drood was Illustrated", extracted from The Century Magazine, February 1884. Disbound, loose leaves. 5) Richard A. Proctor. Watched by the Dead: A Loving Study of Dickens' Half-Told Tale. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1887. Original pictorial boards. First edition. 6) Andrew Lang. The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot. London: Chapman & Hall, 1905. Original red cloth. First edition. 7) J. Cuming Walters. The Complete Mystery of Edwin Drood. The History, Continuations, and Solutions (1870-1912). London: Chapman & Hall, 1912. Original red cloth. First edition. 8) Montagu Saunders. The Mystery in the Drood Family. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1914. Original green cloth. First edition. 9) Gillan Vase. A Great Mystery Solved. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1914. Original blue cloth. First edition. 10) W. E. Crisp. The Mystery of Edwin Drood Completed. London: J. M. Ouseley & Son, 1914. Original red cloth. First edition. 11) Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Trial of John Jasper. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1914. Later black cloth, original wrappers bound in. First edition. 12) Percy T. Carden. The Murder of Edwin Drood. London: Cecil Palmer, 1920. Original red cloth. First edition. 13) R. Austin Freeman. The Mystery of Angelina Frood. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. Original red cloth. First edition. 14) Ruth Alexander. Dickens' Mystery of Edwin Drood: Completed by a Loyal Dickensian. London: The Blackfriars Press Ltd., 1925. Original pink cloth and dust jacket. First edition. 15) Edwin Harris. John Jasper's Gatehouse. Rochester: Mackays Limited, 1931. Original blue cloth and dust jacket. First edition. 16) Felix Aylmer. The Drood Case. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964. Original black cloth and dust jacket. First edition. 17) Leon Garfield. The Mystery of Edwin Drood Concluded. London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. Original brown cloth with dust jacket. First edition. 18) Jarndyce. The Essential Edwin Drood: A Bibliographical Catalogue. London: Jarndyce, Spring 1995. Also included is a copy of: Robert Langton. Charles Dickens and Rochester. London: Chapman & Hall, 1880. Generally in very good condition.

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