![]() ![]() ![]() Fields's introductory "Some Memories of Charles Dickens," plus Dickens's "George Silverman's Explanation," "Holiday Romance," "Sketches of Young Couples," and "New Uncommercial Samples," plus "The Will of Charles Dickens." Since 1867, Ticknor & Fields (and then Fields Osgood) had been Dickens's authorized publisher in America they had serialized DROOD in their weekly Every Saturday, and then published this book in early September. ![]() The "Uncollected Pieces" consist of James T. This has led some bibliographers to speculate that the two issues may be from the same printing, with only a change in the title page: Smith, noting that he could not find a publication date for the first issue, says "Perhaps such copies represent a prepublication state rather than an issue and were published simultaneously with copies which had the uncollected pieces.". The scarce earlier issue, withOUT the "Uncollected Pieces," was bound only in wrappers furthermore, the subsequent additions are just that - the text of DROOD is exactly the same in both issues. First American Edition, second and usual issue with added material - of the tale left unfinished at the time of Dickens's death in June 1870. ![]()
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