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Our Mutual Friend
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
San Mateo, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, Bayntun binding. Two volumes. Does not contain the slip addressing the choice of title, called for by Eckel, nor any advertisements. [i]-xi [1]-320; [i]-[viii], [1]-309 pp. Three quarter red morocco with marbled paper. Raised bands, six panels on the spine, with gilt devices, 'Our Mutual Friend', 'Dickens Vol.I/II', and '1865. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers in light blue and pink, with 'BAYNTUN.BINDER.BATH.ENG.' on verso. Tissue protecting frontispieces. Binding is handsome, with minor bumping of corners and wear to extremities. The text is marred by a faint semicircular damp stain to upper edge both volumes, most visible on some of 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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Details
- Bookseller
- B Street Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2023-P57
- Title
- Our Mutual Friend
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
B Street Books, ABAA
We accept returns of any book within 30 days and refund the price, so long as the book is returned in the same condition it was sent.
About the Seller
B Street Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
San Mateo, California
About B Street Books, ABAA
We buy and sell used, rare, collectible and antiquarian books and are conveniently located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area peninsula. We are San Mateo's only used bookstore and have served the area for over 10 years.
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- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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...
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