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Our Mutual Friend
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], viii-xi, [2], 2-320; [3], vi-vi, [2], 2-309, [3] pp. Bound from parts as evidenced by the stab-holes throughout. Two volumes bound in one (title pages state "In Two Volumes", "Vol. I"; "In Two Volumes", "Vol. II"). Bound in half contemporary green calf over green pebbled cloth, with the delineations in the binding ruled in gilt; spine in seven compartments, each compartment ruled in gilt. Red morocco label lettered in gold on the spine, textblock speckled. Bound without the wrappers, half-titles, and advertisements. Lacks the errata slip that is occasionally found in copies of this work. Contains the postscript. Each volume illustrated by a frontispiece with 38 additional wood engravings by Marcus Stone. The final plate is bound in at page 303 rather than page 292. Eckel 95. Gimbel A149. Hatton & Cleaver 345. A nice copy of the final novel that Dickens completed during his lifetime. A Very Good book with a small dampstain to each board and its pastedown, corners of boards show some wear, leaves are largely clean with very minor foxing, not affecting the plates.
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
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00008497
- Title
- Our Mutual Friend
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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