The Mystery of Edwin Drood

No book-club issue at this date. Traps: Part VI wrappers WITHOUT the 'Eighteenpence' slip (the later state, and the great majority of copies); respined or restored wrappers; sets lacking the cork-hats slip in Part II and the Chapman & Hall advertisement in Part V. The 1870 one-volume book edition is frequently offered simply as 'first edition' - true of the book form only, not of the work. Beware also the continuations and completions by other hands, e.g. Henry Morford's John Jasper's Secret (1871-72), which are separate works, not issues of Drood.