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Author:
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Charles Dickens, Anon
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Title:
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood; A Simple Tale of a Drug Addicted, Sex-Mad, Transvestite Choir-Master
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Description:
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Book is Good in no dust jacket. Paperback binding, First Edition,
Privately Printed, Edinburgh, 1970. Unearthed in Scotland, this original carbon-copy unpublished manuscript by unknown author, has a charming water-colour painting on the front panel, cartoon style, of nude Rosa Bud and 'Jasper'. This 48 page single sided typed manuscript is a critical analysis of 3 published solutions to the Edwin Drood mystery. These are "The Drood Case" by Felix Aylmer, Hart Davis 1964, "The Flint and the Flame" by Earle Davis - Dead or Alive chapter XIV, Gollancz 1964, and Edwin Drood, a horrible wonder apart by A. E. Dyson, published by Critical Quarterly, Vol II No 2, Summer 1969. Contents are an introduction, then chapters on each of then above, 11pp, 7pp, 14pp length, and a 7 page conclusion. Bibliography at rear mentions works up to 1970 so this is the presumed date of writing, it looks about that age. Condition is reasonable with minor wear to covers and some freckling and browning and edge nick to the watercolour. First blank flyleaf is detached, the rest of the text block hass fine thread binding chords and glued to spine. The pagination, bibliography etc are scholarly in their presentation, the typing competent and generally free of errors, double spaced with 27 lines to page, and some lines at page bottoms are closer spaced. Overall, a unique item of scholarly merit by an unknown author with a good grasp of Dickens. Not large enough in scope to be publishable in its own right, this was nevertheless undertaken seriously by the author to note down his own theories of the mystery. With the watercolour it also makes a great display item. iii+47pp + 1pp bibliography.
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