OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.
by DICKENS, CHARLES
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Essentially No Wear./No Jacket.
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Marbled boards. All edges marbled. Dark brown leather spine labels, gilt borders. New brown endpapers. Two volumes bound in one. With half-title to Volume 1 bound-in. Forty plates by Marcus Stone, all in excellent condition, likely having been washed at some previous time. First issue points as described in Smith 15. Bound from the original parts, with stab holes easily identified. Three-line slip tipped-in to p.1 of the first volume (frequently absent). Quite a kindly-restored copy. The title first appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts from May 1864-November 1865. Volume 1 was published in book form on Januart 20, 1865, Volume 2 on October 21, 1865. 320-309pp.. First English Edition. Recent 1/2 Brown Morocco. Essentially No Wear./No Jacket.. Illus. by Marcus Stone. Octavo.
Synopsis
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is in many ways one of his most sophisticated works, combining deep psychological insight with rich social analysis. At one level it centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life" but in a deeper sense it's also about 'human values'.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012084
- Title
- OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Illustrator
- Marcus Stone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Essentially No Wear.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket.
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- English Literature, First Edition
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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