Drood by Dan Simmons [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2009 • Little Brown & Co.

Drood by Dan Simmons FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [2009] LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   Dust jacket is very good; a few blemished spots and a sticker on rear [non-removable without damage] housed in protective mylar jacket.    Book itself is mint; light tanning to pages.  Drood… is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life.On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle. All of the first-class carriages except the one carrying Dickens are smashed to bits in the valley below. When Dickens descends into that valley to confront the dead and dying, his life will be changed forever. And at the core of that ensuing five-year nightmare is…Drood… the name that Dickens whispers to his friend Wilkie Collins. A laudanum addict and lesser novelist, Collins flouts Victorian sensibilities by living with one mistress w