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London: Chapman and Hall,, 1865. An exceptionally fresh copy First edition, an exceptionally nice copy in the publisher's cloth, bound mostly from the original parts with the stab holes visible, with the bookplates of the prominent collector Viscount Esher, sold in his sale at Sotheby's in 1946 (lot 532). Dickens's last completed novel, "Our Mutual Friend had a mixed reception (the young Henry James's harshly dismissive review in The Nation is notorious) but its stock has risen dramatically in recent years and it is now generally regarded as one of his very greatest works" (ODNB). Two volumes, octavo. Original purple cloth, Virtue binder's ticket to rear pastedown, spines lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind, light yellow endpapers. Housed in custom brown cloth solander boxes by Riviere & Son. With 40 wood engravings including frontispieces; 4pp. publisher's catalogue at rear dated November 1865 in vol. II (not essential in either volume). With the slip preceding p. 1, as Eckel calls for,… Read More

1865. First Edition . DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-65. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original green printed paper wrappers. Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box. $6200.First edition in original parts of this Dickens favorite. A very nice copy in original wrappers, complete with all advertisements, handsomely boxed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.With Our Mutual Friend, ""Dickens has for the first time given serious consideration to the theme of unrequited love. In earlier books it may have been secret or ill-timed, but there was always an equilibrium in which both parties seem to accept that they loved or can be loved; and that, when eventually they declare their love, it is not rejected."" But in Our Mutual Friend ""there is torture in love, and despair, and madness. There is some necessary connection between courtship and death… it is possible to trace the strange curve of Dickens' temperament exploring… Read More

London [May 1864-November 1865]: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. In the original monthly parts, 20 parts in 19. Original green printed wrappers; ALL wrappers are correct. ALL the ads, slips and Advertisers called for by Hatton & Cleaver are present, except for the rare ad "The Economic Life Assurance Society" following the plates in part 14 (known in only a few copies). FIRST ISSUE of the wrappers, without the imprint at the foot of front wrapper of part 1, and with the FIRST ISSUE TEXT, with the misspelling "pricipal" in part 14, page 115, line 38. In the Advertiser of part 10, Hatton & Cleaver states, "In a few copies seen, p. 13 was misprinted 31." The present copy has this misprint. Part 17 with the Advertiser partly unopened. The plates are very good to fine; the text and wrappers are clean and bright. Laid into part 12 is an autograph note, in pencil by Dickens Bibliographer Thomas Hatton: "M. F. / 12 / f. cover spots - / wants b. cover" in reference to another part 12. Several… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.. 1865. First Edition; First Printing. Fine binding. Both volume Near Fine. Small clipping affixed to both volumes' front pastedowns, owner printed stamp on each FEP. Rubbing along panel edges. 1st Impression 1st issue with ‘pricipal’ misspelling for ‘principal’ to p.115 in volume two. Smith (1.1). .

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition of Dickens' final completed novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated by Marcus Stone with forty plates. An exceptional presentation. Our Mutual Friend originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts, the last part forming a double number, from May 1864- November 1865. The first volume was published in book form on January 20, 1865; the second on October 21, 1865. 11s. each." (Smith, Dickens, 15).

London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-1865. 20 original parts bound in 19, as issued. First Edition. Decorated throughout with illustrations by Marcus Stone, and with the great bevy of advertisements as issued and bound into the front and rear of each volume. 8vo, publisher's original blue printed wrappers, now housed in a fold-over case of brown cloth with black morocco lettering label gilt decorated. A very handsome set, the sheets uncut and the text and plates all preserved very well and present. The great number of ads are also in excellent condition and include many not often encountered such as the 'Foreign Bank Notes' ad in Part 19/20; page "13" misprinted "31" in No. 10 and noted by Hatton and Cleaver as appearing in a few copies, with the yellow announcement slip for "All the Year Round" in No. 8, with the rare yellow slip "At the Bar" "In Number 335" in No. 18 as well as the yellow Mappin & Webb advertisement, the volumes are in original condition and with some expert and essentially… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Marcus Stone. Octavo. The first two volume edition with the blue wrappers of the 1864/65 serialized front covers, adverts and back covers bound in at the end. Vol. 1: pp. [xii], 320, includes half-title, frontispiece plus 19 plates by Marcus Stone, with the blue illustrated wrappers and illustrated adverts and inserts bound in at the end from No. 1 (May 1864) to No. 10 (Feb. 1865). Vol. 2: pp. [viii], 309, includes the half-title, frontispiece plus 19 plates by Marcus Stone, with the illustrated blue wrappers and illustrated adverts and inserts bound in at the end from No. 11 (March 1865) to Nos. 19 and 20 (Nov. 1865), adverts and inserts printed in various colours (white, blue, yellow, orange, fuchsia, etc.) and sizes. Bound by Riviere and Son in half brown morocco and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, ornate gilt panelled spines with gilt title and volume number direct to spine, top edges gilt. Occasional mild spotting,… Read More

FIRST EDITION with all points per Smith. Two Octavo volumes. [i-vii] viii-ix [x] Xi [xii], [1] 2-320, [1] - 36 (catalogue dated January 1865); [i-v] vi-vii [viii] , [1] 2-309 [ -312] (colophon and ads), [4] (catalogue dated November 1865). Forty inserted plates after Marcus Stone.Publisher's original purple sand grain cloth, Boards conventionally blocked in blind, Spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow in papers. Previous owners signature to front pay down of same volume; Hugh Mitchell Pitlochry. On the half title Mr. Mitchell has added his notary embossed stamp (reading High Mitchell, Notary Public, 1874). The second volume with the binders ticket (Virtue & Co.) On the lower front pace down and with our armorial plate of Beatrice Lady Ellenborough. With a small embossed stamp on front free in paper of book seller WH Smith and son. The first volume has been carefully and almost imperceptibly rebacked by the Heritage Bindery. Volume two is a bit darker than volume one extremities… Read More

1865. DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Bound in green full crushed morocco, raised spine bands, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, gilt chamfered edges, T.e.g. housed in custom cloth and morocco slipcases with inner cloth chemises with morocco spines. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 2 Vols. First edition, first issue. Smith I: 15. Eckel , p.94. A fine copy,

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First Edition. 2 volumes; octavo (23cm.); original burgundy blind-tooled cloth, decorative gilt spines; xi,[1],320,36;vii,[1],309,[3],3pp.; frontis. & 38 plates. Both volumes recased with new endpapers to match original yellow glazed endpapers, half titles preserved; cover blind-tooling neary imperceptible, extremities a bit rubbed and faded, spine crowns reinforced to match (though affecting gilt ruling); Vol. I plates uniformly dampstained, apparently before binding. Still, a Very Good, sound set. GIMBEL A150; SMITH 15.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1854. First Edition. Very Good. 1854-1855. Twenty issues bound into 19 parts, as issued. In publisher's green wraps printed in black. First edition. First state of No. 1, with no printer's imprint at bottom of front wrapper. All slips and ad pages present as per Hatton & Cleaver with the following exceptions: last 2pp. of Chapman and Hall ads missing from No. 1; a slip missing in No.2; slip "Tale of Chivalrous Life" not in No. 5; final two ads in No. 6 missing; no "Kaye's" slip in No. 7; no "Mappin, Webb. & Co." ad at rear in No. 15. "London Society" slip supposed to be No. 9 bound in rear of No. 8 instead; "Mr. S.O. Beeton's" bound before "Astra Castra" contrary to bibliography. As is typical, "Foreign Bank Notes" slip in 19 & 20 ("Mappin" ad gone as well) and No. 14's "Economic Life Assurance" slip absent. Very Good, with spines and several covers neatly restored, and general wear and light soiling; inked name or notation on front cover of Nos. 8, 14. Small scrape to ad… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition in book form of Dickens' fourteenth and final completed novel. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated by Marcus Stone with forty plates. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate. "Our Mutual Friend originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts, the last part forming a double number, from May 1864- November 1865. The first volume was published in book form on January 20, 1865; the second on October 21, 1865. 11s. each." (Smith, Dickens, 15).

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 1st Edition. Leather. 320p; 309p. FINE LEATHER BINDING BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE. A hardcover book bound in full red leather with ornate gilt decorations on the spine (which has five raised bands). Portrait of Dickens on front board and facsimile signature on back, both stamped in gilt. Features marbled endpapers, gilt foredges, and gilt dentelles. Original teal paper cover bound in back, with the chipped-off bottom corner restored. The back board is slightly warped. Foxing on and around the plates. Otherwise, text unmarked and binding secure. The leather is in beautiful condition, unmarred by soiling or chafing. The first edition, two volumes in one. Illustrated with black and white plates by Marcus Stone. Contains the bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest.

20 parts in 19, as issued. First issue of part 1 without the printer's imprint on front wrapper, wood engraved frontispiece and 39 plates after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green, part 1 lacks Thorley's 4 pages of ads, part 6 lacks Armadale slip and Norton's Pills 4 pages of ads, part 7 with Thorley's Farmer's Almanack duplicated at front of ads, part 14 lacks Mappin Webb & Co. 4 pages of ads., part 18 lacks Norton's Pills and Liverpool & London & Globe ads, but with 8 pages Chapman & Hall ads not called for, part 19/20 with additional 2 ads for John F. Dunn's City Book Mark each 2 pages inserted at front and back, all other slips and advertisements as called for, Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original green wrappers. House in two red enclosures with gilt letter to spine and marbled end boards. (Hatton & Cleaver pp.343-370) First edition.
Our Mutual Friend, written in 1864–1865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1865. In publisher's original embossed purple cloth, gilt spine, pale yellow end papers. With 40 wood engravings including frontispieces by Marcus Stone. With the rare slip to the reader preceding p. 1, in Vol. I, and 5 pages of ads following postscript at rear of Vol. II dated November, 1865. No stab holes. Very Good, cloth torn at spine ends, corners rubbed, London bookseller's blind stamp front end page, prior owner name dated 1866 front end pages. An unrestored set of this Dickens classic, and uncommon thus. . First Edition. Embossed Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Chapman and Hall,, 1865. One of his very greatest works First edition in book form of Dickens's last completed novel. "Its stock has risen dramatically in recent years and it is now generally regarded as one of his very greatest works" (ODNB). It was first issued in parts from May 1864 to November 1865. Two volumes, octavo. Original purple cloth, Virtue binder's ticket to rear pastedown of vol. II, spines lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind, light yellow endpapers. Housed in custom red cloth solander box. With 40 wood engravings including frontispieces; 36-page publisher's catalogue at rear of vol. I dated January 1865 and 4-page catalogue at rear of vol. II dated November 1865 (the months of publication of each volume). Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Spines lightly sunned and rubbed, neatly recased with repair to spine ends and inner hinges, half-titles tipped-in on guards, vol. II with repair to closed tear at head of front free endpaper,… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865, 1865. FIRST EDITION A PERFECT SET IN THE ORIGINAL 19 PARTS. first issue of text with "pricipal" for "principal" in part 14, illustrated by Marcus Stone, original pictorial blue paper wrappers, a completely unsophisticated set with none of the spines being rebacked, some wear to the head and foot of spines, chipping to a few corners, internally clean and bright, housed in a red cloth clamshell box, gilt lettered spine. A PERFECT SET. With the "Our Mutual Friend Advertiser" in each part, an additional Ad in Part 18 for "Chapman & Hall's New Publications" not called for in Hatton & Cleaver, otherwise matching all Hatton & Cleaver points.

London: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1865. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. First Issue (with all issue points per Smith, and November, not December, catalog at end of volume II). Demy 8vo (211 x 134mm): xii,320,3-36(first advertisement leaf not bound in); viii,312,4pp, with 20 full-page plates in each volume. Publisher's original dark purplish-brown sand-grain cloth, covers blocked in blind with decorative arch frame embellished with leaves and flowers; spines richly gilt with leaves, flowers, and flourishes and lettered in gilt; coated yellow end papers; fore-edge untrimmed. Contemporary ownership inscription of James Martin, Wainfleet, on fly-leaf and half-title, one dated [18]66. Original spines very skillfully laid down, paper hinges neatly reinforced, faint spotting and offsetting from plates, else an excellent set, tightly bound and clean throughout. Smith I, 15. Sadleir 697. Wolff II, 1809. Podeschi (Gimbel Collection) A. Grolier Dickens, pp. 154-56. Dickens's last completed… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers,, 1865. An exceptional copy First US edition, cloth issue, of the novel "now generally regarded as one of his very greatest works" (ODNB). The novel was first published in London in monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. From the text of those monthly parts, Harper & Brothers published the novel in the US, issuing it in wrappers in two parts in February and November 1865. Simultaneous with the release of the second part in wrappers, the edition was published complete in one volume in cloth, as here. Smith consequently refers to the cloth as the second issue and the wrappers as the first. Octavo. Original purple honeycomb-pattern cloth (Smith's standard binding variant, no priority of issue), spine lettered in gilt. Housed in custom cloth solander box. With 36 woodcut illustrations by Marcus Stone. Gift inscription "Edward Banker Jr 1st January 1866 from his mother" to front pastedown, recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First Edition, in the original parts; first issue text, "pricipal" in no. 14. 40 plates engraved on wood by Dalziel and W.T. Green after designs by Marcus Stone. 20 issues bound in 19 parts. 1 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers, lightly soiled, some backstrips repaired, ome wear to some wrappers. In a half green morocco slipcase. Stone, Marcus. First Edition, in the original parts; first issue text, "pricipal" in no. 14. 40 plates engraved on wood by Dalziel and W.T. Green after designs by Marcus Stone. 20 issues bound in 19 parts. 1 vols. 8vo. Our Mutual Friend contains the greatest number of inserted ads of all of Dickens' books in parts. The present copy is a made up set, and the ads and slips also largely agree with their count, except for the following differences: In nos. 2 & 4, Glenfield Starch slips are present in both, without an added slip announcing "Just Published ... Mr. & Mrs. Asheton" in no. 4 (not called for); with in no. 8, announcement All the Year Round… Read More