Our Mutual Friend (Two volumes bound in one book)
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Marcus Stone. First edition of the two volumes bound as one. Leather bound. xi; 320; vii; 309pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Rebound in 3/4 brown leather with marbled paper over boards. Spine with 6 gilt stamped compartments. Marbled text block edges. New endpapers and flyleaves. Light internal foxing. Short closed tear to top edge of plate at p. 78. Forty plates illustrated in black and white. Does have "pricipal" and the three-page "Postscript." With all internal flaws as listed in Smith: I, with the exception of the following: P. 277- "dis-gusted." Lacks slip explaining the title. Bound without publisher's advertisements. Volume 2 without half title. Half title present in volume 1. Very good. Item #71424
Eckel p. 94-95. Smith: I, 15. First published in monthly installments that began in May of 1864 and ended in November of 1865, "Our Mutual Friend" is Dickens's last completed novel- a dark satire with themes such as the corruption of wealth and the pretensions of the nouveaux riches.
Price: $300.00