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Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1865.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Good (at best) copy in edge-worn dark green cloth lettered in gold, with a glue-mend to cloth wear at the rear spine fold, and a glue-mend to paper tears at the front gutter. Scattered foxing, a faint damp-stain at the top corner margin of about the first half of the book. A sound reading copy of this early edition.
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
Various.. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. 186 November 1865.. Harper & Bros, 1865.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Nice condition. Original issue November 1865 (not a reprint). Includes: ASCENT OF POPCATEPETL, MONKS OF BASLE, WALKER RIVER COUNTRY, HOW TO REDEEM WOMAN'S PROFESSION FROM DISHONOR, RECOLLECTIONS OF GENERAL ROUSSEAU, serialized chapters from ARMADALE (Wilkie Collins), OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (Charles Dickens), etc; illustrations. Front cover about like new, spine a bit worn, upper edge of rear cover and last 20 or so pages have a narrow insect-eaten strip. Clean and unmarked. Unusually nice condition for these old magazines. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.
Seller: Brentwood Books, Kinnelon, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: disbound copy; pp. 681-816; includes: A.H. Guernsey (Lyman Beecher). Ross Browne (Washoe, Revisited) John S.C. Abbott (civil War: Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men: The Change of Base) Willkie Collins (Armadale Book 3, Chapter3); Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend, Chapters Book Three, Chapter V-VI), Etc Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: disbound copy; pp. 545-680; includes: Ethelin Beers (A Dog's Day Ended, poem); Where the "wateree" Was; John S. Schooley (Petroleum Region of America); John S.C. Abbott (civil War: Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men: Military Adventures Beyond the Mississippijane Thorneypine (Miss Milligan's Sermon);; thieves' Jargon; John A. Bolles (Pleasant Valley and Deacon Marvin)jeremiah Best (Wall Street in War Time, Stock market); Wilkie Collins (Armadale Book 3, P.t 1W.F.G.SHANKS (recollections of Generam William Tecumseh Sherman); Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend, Chapters Book Three, Chapter I-IV), Etc Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: disbound copy; pp. 273-408; includes: John S.C. Abbott (civil War: Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men: Pursuit and Capture of John H. Morgan);j. Ross Brown (trip to Bodie Bluff and the Dead Sea of the West); Wilkie Collins (Armadale, Chapte X) Hugh Miller and Geology;thomas Fitch (Nevada);W.F.G. Shanks (Recollections of Philip Henry Sheridan); W.F.G Peck (Four Years Under Fire at Charlestonm South Carolina, Civilwar); ; Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend, Chapters XV-XVI, Etc Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: disbound copy; pp. 545-680; includes: John S.C. Abbott (civil War: Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men: Wilkie Collins (Armadale, Chapter 3-4); Thomas Jordan (Jefferson Davis);A.H. Guermsey (William Sherman's Great March); J.W. De Forest (Visit to the Isle of the Puritans); J. Ross Browne (Down in the Cinnabar Mines); )W.F.G. Shanks (Fighting Joe Hooker); Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend, Book Four, Chapters IV-VI; Etc Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: disbound copy; pp. 409-544; includes: John S.C. Abbott (civil War: Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men: Pursuit and Capture of John H. Morgan);j. Ross Brown (trip to Bodie Bluff and the Dead Sea of the West); Wilkie Collins (Armadale, Chapter XIII) J.T. Headly (Milfort); Justus Doolittle (Sketches of Social Life in China); W.F.G. Shanks (Recollections of Philip Henry Sheridan); W.F.G Peck (Four Years Under Fir; Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend, Book Four, Chapters I-IV; (Elizabeth S. Phelps (Margaret Bronson); Etc Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: disbound copy; pp. 137-272; includes:B.S. Calef (Prison Life in the Conederacy, Civil War); John S.C. Abbott (civil War: Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men: A Railroad Adventure, Ormsby M. Mitchellsamuel Osgood (Garden Philosopohynoah Brooks (ersonal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, w/some Marginalia on one Page in pencil); S.I, Prime (Anedcotes of Unitarin Devines);) J. Ross Browne (Washoe Revisited. Pt 3); Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend, Chapters XI-XIV), Etc Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: disbound copy; pp. 61-136; includes: John S.C. Abbott (civil War: Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men:: Change of Base Effected) Elizabeth S. Phelps (Andrew Kent's Temptation); Robert Tomes (Americans on Their Travels); W.f.g. Shanks (REcollections of Ulysses S. Grant); J. Ross Browne (Washoe Revisited. Pt 2); Charles Holmes (From Teheran to Samarcand) Willkie Collins (Armadale Book 3, Chapter V); Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend, Chapters VIII-X), Etc Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 816pp. Black leather spine and corners, gold stamp, brown boards, edge wear. Firm binding. Good text. Includes:Armadale by Wilkie Collins; Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens; Etc., articles, fiction, poems, illustrations. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The six issues carry a serialised edition of Charles Dickens OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, travel stories, fashion. One hundred eighty-six etchings illustrate the magazines. Dark brown boards with leather corners and leather spine with raised bands and gilt title. All edges dyed reddish brown. VG/No Jacket. Tight, square and straight. No wear, no owner marks. Item # E4867. **SAVE MORE** Additional books in the same order ship for FREE via Standard Shipping.
Seller: Schroeder's Book Haven, League City, TX, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1865.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Complete in One Volume, double column format, frontis is woodcut portrait of Dickens by Bobbett, title page bordered in woodcut vignettes, 348pp, pg 349-350 "postscript in lieu of Preface", no ads in back. Trimmed and re-bound in half leather and paper over boards, lacks ffp, ownership label, re-stitched, hinges cracked.
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Fair. Light rubbing to extremities. Edges bumped and exposed. Hinges are weak. Contains Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. Our Mutual Friend.. Harper and Brothers., New York., 1865.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Text in double columns. weight: 1.4 lb. Good plus, moderate wear to covers, piece missing at spine head, faint old ink name dated 1865 to second endpaper, pages toned, contents otherwise very good. Portrait frontis, illustrated title page, scattered illustrations in text. 8vo., 24x15 cm. pages numbereed [17]-350 + 2 pp. ads.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1865.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 350p + ad, illustrated. Fraying at the crown, gilt title . bookplate. A good copy in original brown cloth
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend. Harper, 1865.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: small tears along spine and fraying tips gilt lettering fading on spine brown cloth boads marbled end pages previos owners names on blank page light foxing first american edition illustrated overall the book is tight and collectiblre
Seller: Rare Reads, Athens, GA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1865.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st American edition. A Good to Very Good copy. Tall 8vo., 350, (2) pp., illustrated with a frontispiece of the author, an engraved title page, and text engravings. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth, with the title on the spine in gilt. The spine is sunned; gilt lettering on the spine is dulled.Tips and the spine's crown and tail rubbed. Title page toned. Light scattered foxing to some of the text signatures. A Good+ copy.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 816pp; contents clean and textually unmarked. No library stamps; no writing or highlighting. Numerous copperplate illustrations, maps and fashion plates. Solid, tight binding. Mottled boards with black leather corners and gilt-stamped spine. Dickens' Our Mutual Friend on pp. 102ff, 236ff, 367ff, 506ff, 647ff, 781ff. Includes numerous articles on Civil War and various battles; and much more.
Seller: JBK Books, North Manchester, IN, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1865.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 350, [2] pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Moderate shelf wear. Soiling and sunning to boards. Fraying to cloth along edges and spine, with some webbing exposed. Age-toning and scattered foxing throughout textblock. With two pages of advertisements in rear. Shelved in Front Case. 1373425. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. Photograph available upon request. First Edition. May 1865. A single original issue of this monthly magazine. NOT print on demand or a modern reprint. Good condition. Cover has soil and light edgewear. Some spine lettering is flaked away. Some pages at the end show a faint (damp?) stain. Other pages are clean and unmarked. NO owner's name or bookplate. Bound in the original decorated wraps. Complete with all ads. Questions on content? Please inquire. This issue contains OUR MUTUAL FIEND (Chapters 5-7) by Charles Dickens. Also in this issue is ARMADALE (Chapters 3-4) by Wilkie Collins. First Edition. Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 6.5" wide by 10" tall. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. Photograph available upon request. First Edition. November1865. A single original issue of this monthly magazine. NOT print on demand or a modern reprint. Good condition. Cover has soil and light edgewear. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO owner's name or bookplate. Bound in the original decorated wraps. Complete with all ads. Questions on content? Please inquire. This issue contains OUR MUTUAL FIEND (Book the Fourth, Chapters 8-11) by Charles Dickens. Also in this issue is ARMADALE (Book the Fourth) by Wilkie Collins. First Edition. Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 6.5" wide by 10" tall. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1865.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. First American imprint, published by Harper and Brothers, Publishers. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Cloth shows staining and is worn at extremities, especially at upper rear cover, with damp-stain on upper rear board and top and bottom of spine shaved. Gilt lettering at lower portion of back-strip suffering some loss to the word "Harpers". Tissue guard between frontis and engraved title torn with some loss. Double column format illustrated with engravings. Artist is misidentified by Wilkens as Luke Fildes. Very light. sporadic foxing to text. Overall a solid, clean copy of this U.S. imprint. Podeschi A151, Wilkens p.32. Good.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1865.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 350 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in green cloth with gilt text on spine. Boards have bumping to corners, splitting to front joint from tail edge, rubbing to corners, and tearing and fraying to spine edges. Textblock has light age toning, owner inscription on front pastedown, and mild foxing to some pages. Shelved under front counter. 1371132. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Harper & Brothers, 1865.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition. Original blind-stamped green cloth 17-350 pp, illustrated, 2 pp ads at rear, perfect 89, no ad between pp. 187-188, "September 2, 1865" on last page, paper tanned from p. 145-156, and p. 173-350 + ads. Hardcover, good to very good. Some soil and drop marks on cloth, corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and at spots along edges of boards, ¼-1/2 inch chip off head of spine, 1/6th inch fraying at foot. Internally, November 13th, 1865 previous owner's signatures (Thomas Nast, but probably not the cartoonist, based on comparisons with authentic signatures) , foxing, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Literature
Seller: Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA, Fleetville, PA, U.S.A.
Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend - Harper & Brothers Illustrated Edition. Harper & Brothers, 1865.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. Printed in New York City by Harper and Brothers. 1865, 350 pp, 9 x 6 , 8vo, hardcover cloth binding. As-is, with rubbing and wear to boards and spine. Small loss to cloth towards head of spine. Wear to front hinge, with back hinge almost fully split from text block. Loss to any end pages at back of book. Occasional rubbing and wear to text block, along with periodic black-and-white illustrations. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce illustrated piece from the works by Charles Dickens. A wonderful piece for restoration. COLL1865ADFW-0923-aj0450
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 31, June-November, 1865. 8vo. Half leather with marbled boards. 865 p. Contents include articles, poems, essays, and illustrations by noted authors and illustrators of the day. This edition features the illustrated serials Armadale by Wilkie Collins and Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Interesting articles on the Social Life of China, Teheran, Nevada, Oxford University, Pozzuoli and Vesuvius volcanoes, and dozens of others. Civil War articles include Four Years Under Fire at Charleston, Jefferson Davis, Dirge for the Fallen, Recollections of General Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Sherman's Great March, Recollections of General Sheridan, and more. Moderate shelfwear and rubbing to leather. Hinges cracked. Binding tight and pages clean. Very good.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1865.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Second U. S. book edition. Octavo, 350 pages, 2 pages of ads; illustrated with 34 textual illustrations. Bound in purple pebble-grained cloth, now faded to tan; spine lettered in gilt. Wear at extremities, small loss at spine ends; very light damp stain to end papers; neat owner's name. Internally clean; very good.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870).. Our Mutual Friend (First Edition). Harper Brothers, New York, 1865.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST AMER. EDITION. (2) + [17]-350pp. + 2 pages of ads. Full grey-brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, worn through at the bottom of the spine, occasional light foxing. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. A good gift. Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 186465) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life" (which is, incidentally, a quote from Our Mutual Friend, spoken by Bella at the end of book III, chapter iv.). In the opening chapter, a young man is on his way to receive his inheritance, which, according to his father's will, he can only claim if he marries Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl whom he has never met. However, before he can arrive, a body is found in the Thames and identified as him. The money passes on, instead, to the working-class Boffins, and the effects spread throughout various corners of London society. UncleAndy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. With Illustrations. , 1865.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. 2 pp undated ads. Original purple cloth. First Complete American Edition. Harper paid for the advance rights to issue OUR MUTUAL FRIEND serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, and then issued it in several book forms. One format was in two wrappered volumes, beginning with Part I on 2 February 1865. Then on 11 November 1865, Harper issued both part II of that format (at 50¢) , AND the entire book either in cloth (as here, at $1.50) or in wrappers (at $1.00). All of these formats include 34 of the 40 illustrations that has appeared in the UK. This more or less mirrored when the two volumes were being issued in England. Meanwhile John Bradburn of New York, "borrowing" from Harper's serialization, was issuing the book in four volumes (after aborting his effort to do it in monthly numbers); Bradburn's first volume came out in October 1864, constituting the first appearance of any part of the novel in book form on either side of the Atlantic (and likewise Bradburn's Vol III was the first such appearance of that segment of the novel). Bradburn did not publish Vol IV until December 1865, though -- after this Harper edition -- so Harper's qualifies as the first edition of the entire novel to be published. This copy is in purple honeycomb-grain cloth, the primary binding cited by Smith (there were five or more cloth variants, used without priority). Condition is very good-plus (spine sunned as always with purple cloth, very minor wear at the extremities). Smith pp 387-392; Gimbel A151; Wilkins p. 32.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 6 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First American Edition, "Peterson sub-edition" [all quotes from Smith]. Having paid 1,000 for advance rights, Harper serialized this novel in Harper's New Monthly Magazine and, to protect their investment, published the first American edition, both in two parts in wrappers (2 February 1865 and 11 November 1865) and then complete in wrappers or in cloth on the latter date. But Harper also sold their plates to Peterson, in such a way that Peterson was able to publish this sub-edition on the same day, "probably a few hours after Harper's edition." "The added [four full-page] illustrations to this sub-edition account for the differences in the page count," compared to Harper's edition. This copy has the title page identical to that described by Smith, with the list of 23 titles in "Peterson's Uniform Edition"; some copies, believed to be later, have a paragraph describing the Harper-Peterson arrangement instead. Smith describes, in addition to wrappers, five cloth binding variants -- unusual in that they vary not just in type of cloth, but in the spine gilt lettering; this is Smith's variant "A", purple diamond-patterned cloth -- the only binding with the fancy gilt "M" and "F" on the spine. Condition is very good-plus, perhaps near-fine (a little wear at the foot of the spine, a closed tear in the front binder's flyleaf). These Peterson volumes were cheaply printed and bound, so this is quite acceptable condition for a none-too-common book in original state. Smith pp 392-396; Podeschi (Yale) A152 (a later issue).
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND; with illustrations. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1865.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo, pp. 350 + adv. leaf, printed in double columns. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, hinges tender, name on rear end paper, ownership signature on the front end paper dated March 31, 1866. Some foxing, a good copy. See Eckel p. 94ff. VanderPoel B269(1).
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND; with illustrations. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1865.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo, pp. 350 + adv. leaf, printed in double columns. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, covers rubbed, ownership signature on the front end paper dated April 11, 1866. Some foxing, a good copy. See Eckel p. 94ff. VanderPoel B269(1).
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 10 pp Vol II ads, undated (though one page cites 1866 as a future date). Original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt vignette on spines. Second American Edition, which is to say Peterson's two-volume "Uniform Duodecimo Edition." Harper paid for advance rights to serialize this novel and to publish it as an octavo book on 11 November 1865; they also sold their plates to Peterson, in such a way that Peterson was able to publish their sub-edition on the very same day, "probably a few hours after Harper's edition." (Peterson would use these same octavo plates for several years, such as for their 1867 Green Cloth Edition.") But Peterson also created its own duodecimo plates, for publication that very same day of this two-volume, single-column edition, with the plates separately printed -- which was priced at $4.00 compared to $2.50. Condition appears to be just about fine, but the volumes were professionally recased -- very early on, as the signature and corresponding personal book-label on each front paste-down appear to be from long ago. Smith pp 400-404; not in Podeschi (Yale).
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$311.76 + shipping
Description: Front. port., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf. Orig. purple sand-grained cloth, double-ruled border in blind, spine lettered in gilt; sl. dulled, spine neatly repaired at head & tail. A good-plus copy. Smith USA I, 14. He describes this as the second issue of the first edition; it was preceded by publication in two parts in wrappers. The titlepage uses the design of the part wrappers.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Description: Front. port., engr. title, illus., final ad. leaf. Orig. purple pebble-grained cloth, double-ruled border in blind, spine lettered in gilt; head of leading hinge splitting, spine faded & sl. chipped at tail. A decent copy. Smith USA I, 14. He describes this as the second issue of the first edition; it was preceded by publication in two parts in wrappers. The titlepage uses the design of the part wrappers.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND With Illustrations. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, N, 1865.
Price: US$893.10 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First authorized U.S. edition, in brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. 350 pages with 2 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Frontispiece engraving of Dickens by Bobbett-Hooper. Illustrations throughout. Light to moderate foxing throughout the text. Discoloration to the endpages. Binding is tight in original cloth. Water-staining along the foredge of the front board. Heavily rubbed board edges. Boards are rubbed and soiled in various places. Spine egdes are frayed, else a sound copy.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: First US edition, cloth issue, of the novel "now generally regarded as one of his very greatest works" (ODNB). The novel was first published in London in monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. From the text of those monthly parts, Harper & Brothers published the novel in the US, issuing it in wrappers in two parts in February and November 1865. Simultaneous with the release of the second part in wrappers, the edition was published complete in one volume in cloth, as here. Smith consequently refers to the cloth as the second issue and the wrappers as the first. Walter Smith, Charles Dickens: A Bibliography of his First American Editions, 2012, pp. 385-392. Octavo. Original purple honeycomb-pattern cloth (Smith's standard binding variant, no priority of issue), spine lettered in gilt. Housed in custom cloth solander box. With 36 woodcut illustrations by Marcus Stone. Gift inscription "Edward Banker Jr 1st January 1866 from his mother" to front pastedown, recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Aside from trivial sunning to spine and spotting to endpapers, a fine, fresh copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom