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Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Full calf. Near Fine. Marcus Stone (illustrator). The first edition, first issue in book form (2 volumes). The first issue, with the three page postscript to the rear of Volume II, and with 'Pricipal' for 'Principal' to Volume II page 115. Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed before his death in 1870. Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and nineteen plates.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, and nineteen plates. . Full calf binding with decorative end papers and five raised bands. Gilt text block edges. A little edge wear to boards and tips. Firmly bound and square. Clean internally with a very small amount of foxing, primarily to title page and frontispiece. Small London bookseller's sticker to front pastedown.
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
- EGR books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3168
- Title
- Our Mutual Friend
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- Marcus Stone
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
- Pages
- 320 (Vol. 1) and 309 (Vol. 2)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Charles Dickens; Fine Binding;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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