first edition
1992 · New York / San Diego / London
by Fruttero, Carlo; Lucentini, Franco; Dowling, Gregory; [Gorey, Edward]; [Dickens, Charles]
New York / San Diego / London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. First US edition, with Gorey-illustrated jacket — about a conference of famous fictional investigators who attempt to solve the mystery in Dickens's incomplete novel, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Translated from the Italian edition first published in 1989. Participating sleuths include Lew Archer, Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Jules Maigret, Philip Marlowe, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe and Porfiry Petrovich. 9.25'' x 6''. Original quarter red cloth, red paper boards, author initial blind-stamped to front board, black lettered spine. In original unclipped ($23.95) pictorial dust jacket, designed by Vaughn Andrews with illustration by Edward Gorey. Fore-edge machine deckle. ix, [3], 587, [1] pages. Publisher's publicity letter laid in. Light toning to jacket spine.
(Inventory #: 52161)
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