Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - 1865

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.