THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD by Dickens, Charles - 1870

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. Original olive cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Backstrip sunned, neat crack in coated endsheet at gutter (ca. 2 1/4"), inner hinges slightly weak but sound, engraved title foxed, with lesser scattered foxing elsewhere, otherwise an unusually nice copy, the cloth bright and clean. First edition in book form, with all the internal typographical "flaws" described by Smith. This copy is in Carter's binding C (publisher's remainder binding), which he describes as "the familiar rather dowdy binding of most of the single volume Dickens reprints," and "the rarest of the three" bindings found on DROOD. Smith had "never seen" a copy. SMITH, pp.115-6. Carter, BINDING VARIANTS, p.108.