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Illustrated Books & Books in all Fields
1:00 PM PT - Aug 21st, 2008

 

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Dickens Our Mutual Friend in Original Parts

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Title: Our Mutual Friend
Author: Dickens, Charles
Description: Original 20 parts in 19. Illustrated with 40 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone. (8vo) 8¾x5½, original wrappers; housed in custom red cloth drop-back box. First Edition.First edition, in original parts. Each part bound with the "Our Mutual Friend Advertiser" plus several other slips and inserts. Additional slip, not called for by Hatton and Cleaver, tipped in at rear of Part 5 advertising J.F. Dunn's City Book Mart. Part 2 a later printing with ads dated November, 1865 at rear. Part 6 lacking slip for Wilkie Collins' Armadale. Part 7 lacking slip for Kaye's Worsdell's Pills. De Jongh's ad at rear of Part 9 with last line reading "much fatigue..." Part 11 lacking Headless Horseman slip. Part 12 lacking 2 slips at front and with ads at rear matching those called for in Part 1 but without De Jongh's ad. Part 13 with 3 ads not called for at rear. Part 14 lacking slip to follow plates and Mappin, Webb ad at rear. Part 15 with only De Jongh's and Keating's ads at rear. Part 16 lacking Mappin, Webb ad. Part 18 lacking slips at front. Part 19/20 with incorrect ads at rear. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 345-370.
Heading: zzePlace Published: London
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Date Published: [1864]-1865

Condition report

Spines replaced, some paper repairs to wrappers, wrappers chipped, front wrappers detached on Parts 1, 2, 5, 7, 18, 19/20; others partially detached, large chip from front wrapper of Part 17; many pages unopened; overall good to very good in a somewhat soiled box. Should be examined, sold as is.

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