Our Mutual Friend
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. Original Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American imprint, published by Harper and Brothers, Publishers. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Cloth shows staining and is worn at extremities, especially at upper rear cover, with dampstain on upper rear board and top and bottom of spine shaved. Gilt lettering at lower portion of backstrip suffering some loss to the word "Harpers". Tissue guard between frontis and engraved title torn with some loss. Double column format illustrated with engravings. Artist is misidentified by Wilkens as Luke Fildes. Very light. sporadic foxing to text. Overall a solid, clean copy of this U.S. imprint. Podeschi A151, Wilkens p.32. Good.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002398
- Title
- Our Mutual Friend
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- Dickens, First Edition, First American Edition, English Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickens First Editions; Alibris2;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
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