Our Mutual Friend (Parts Covers and adverts)
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good./No Jacket
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Londion: Chapman and Hall Paper Coverd Boards. Hardcover, bound in paisley paper covered boards with red leather spine label. Original wrappers and advertisments for "Our Mutual Friend" bound together in book form. The text portion of each part has been excised. Lacking either one cover [front or rear] or some portion of advertising material called for by Hatton and Cleaver in 10 issues. Lacking issue 12 in its entirety, In spite of its several shortcomings, particularly the absence of Part 12, this is a reasonably good set of the large volume of material included in "Our Mutual Friend's" original parts. The wrappers and adverts with few exceptions are especially clean and bright. There is also included several adverts not called for in Hatton and Cleaver. A neatly prepared, hand-written index of all missing and added material is laid-in. Covers show slight splitting of paper at upper joints and some rubbing to spine label, else a clean, attractive volume, solidly bound. Very good.. Hardcover. Very 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 #
- 002706
- Title
- Our Mutual Friend (Parts Covers and adverts)
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- Londion
- Keywords
- CHARLES DICKENS, FIRST EDITIONS, DICKENSIANA DICKENS EDITIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickens First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...