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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
by DICKENS, CHARLES
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
€410.40€307.80
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About This Item
London: Chapman & Hall, 1865. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [vii]viii-xii [1]2-320; [v]vi-viii [1]2-309. THE FIRST EDITION IN Two Volumes. Bound in red half leather over marbled boards, raised bands, title stamped in gilt on spine. All edges trimmed and marbled. Illustrations by Marcus Stone. New endpapers added. A very good copy with very light, scattered foxing to the edges of the plates. Dickens last complete novel published in twenty monthly parts. As the novel was not as popular as most of his others, there were fewer copies published. There are, therefore, fewer available today. A very nice copy of the First Edition.
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
- MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005546
- Title
- OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 2.87 lbs
- Keywords
- First Edition, Charles Dickens, Classic Novels, 1865, Satire, Social Analysis, Bella Wilfer, Victorian Working Class, John Harmon, Harmon Estate, Nicodemus Boffin, Nouveaux Riches, Misers, Monthly Instalments, Marcus Stone, Richard Henry Horne, Dust Heap,
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS
Biblio member since 2004
Uxbridge, Ontario
About MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS
I'm an sole proprietor of Maple Ridge Books. I've been selling books for some 22 years. Although my stock is small in numbers, I am very careful to offer books in the best condition possible. I try to keep shipping costs reasonable, which is not easy these days. I am more than willing to send additional photos of books, or provide more details.
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- Raised Band(s)
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- New
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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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 boards
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- 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...
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