Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as issued
- Seller
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United States, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
Beautiful copy of a rare edition. Gilted titles on front cover and spine. Gilt American Presidential seal on front cover with a raised royal blue map behind the eagle. Frontispiece and plates throughout in fine condition.
Illustrated by Marcus Stone And was the first serialized Dickens novel to use woodcuts instead of steel plates for illustrations.
In Four Books, 2 Volumes. No jacket (does not appear to have been issued for this edition.) Binding is loose at front board, through page 27 which is detached and has become torn along the edges as if out of the book for a period of time. Spine has small spots where cloth has worn away. Otherwise this copy is in very good condition, especially considering it is over 100 years old, and is more than 800 pages thick!
Charles Dicken's last novel that he completed, often considered his darkest and most complex..
Extended Description and Notes
Modern critics generally consider Our Mutual Friend to be one of the great social novels of Charles Dickens later period. Centers on the effects of greed and the corruption that money brings.
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
- Supercalifabulistic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000023
- Title
- Our Mutual Friend
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- Marcus Stone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Rand McNally & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago and New York
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dickens final novel, rare edition, Maritime,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiques & Collectibles; Rare; Classics;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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