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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

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Our Mutual Friend Hardcover - 1865

by Charles Dickens

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Used - Good-

Description

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. First US Edition . Hardcover. Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, original brown cloth boards with gilt text on spine. Cloth is quite spotted and faded, edges and corner show tearing and heavy bumping which is also affected the pages inside. Internal binding is good, despite the bad corner bumps. No hinge cracks are present and text pages are secure. No signatures or bookplates, no library markings. The only evidence of handwriting found is on the front end page where there are remnants of a price once penciled in the corner. The tissue guard for the frontispiece is even still present and attached. Pages are toned due to age and there is some light foxing. Rear of book contains two advertising pages. The first page of Our Mutual Friend states "Book I", all four "books" are bound in this copy which is printed in double column format. First US edition with frontispiece by Bobbitt - Hooper SC. Please note: newly all the pages have faint creasing in the upper outside corner because of the extent of the upper corner bump.

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Details

  • Title Our Mutual Friend
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First US Edition
  • Condition Used - Good-
  • Pages 350
  • Publisher Harper & Brothers, New York
  • Date 1865
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2210840

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About this book

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'.

First Edition Identification

The book was first serialized from 1864-1865 in 19 monthly installments. It was then published as a novel in 1865 by Chapman & Hall, London, with 40 illustration plates  by Marcus Stone.


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