First edition in book form of the epochal writer's final novel, one of his "richest and most carefully-wrought books" (review in ATHENAEUM, 1865).
Near fine.
Price: $400.00
Dickens's novel about "money, money, money" has recently enjoyed a critical revival, in large part because it "invites so many kinds of poststructuralist critical approaches" (Grass, 7). It continues to find new readers alongside television and radio adaptations. As with most of Dickens's novels, it was first published in parts. A handsome copy.
Read More: Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, I.15; Eckel, The first editions of the writings of Charles Dickens; Podeschi, Dickens and Dickensiana. A catalogue of the Richard Gimbel Collection in the Yale University Library, A149; Grass, Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Two octavo volumes in one, 8.5'' x 5''. 20th-century half glossy pebbled brown cloth, marbled paper boards. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Illustrated by Marcus Stone with 40 full-page plates. Bound without half titles; without publisher catalogue at end of vol. I, not in all copies, and postscript/ads at end of vol. II. [iii]-xii, 320; [iii]-viii, 306 pages. Contemporary pencil owner name, dated 1868, to early blank. A couple touches of rubbing to front joint; faint marginal toning to leaves. Tight.
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