Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dicksons, John Cunliffe [Signed]
From writer John Cunliffe’s library, bound in textured brown cloth binding in very good condition with bumping to top and bottom of spine and dis…
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Published in 1865 by The Dickens Society.
£60.00*
From writer John Cunliffe’s library, bound in textured brown cloth binding in very good condition with bumping to top and bottom of spine and discolouration and faded gilt lettering to spine. A few marks to boards and dusting to top edge. Black and white line frontispiece illustration by Marcus Stone. 40 additional Marcus Stone plates present. Half title page unopened. Tears to lower and upper hinges. Typewritten note laid in at page 118 addressed ‘To my Friend Herbert’ followed by a quote. Pink highlighted sections of text to pages 180 and 396. Cunliffe (1933-2018) who is best remembered as the creator of Postman Pat has made notes of quotes from the book on several separate occasions to the upper pastedown with their corresponding page numbers; ‘...laying the tablecloth as if she were raising the wind..’. As well as his signature to the upper pastedown. Another previous owner ‘Constance M. Wakley’ has signed and dated the upper flyleaf along with a message along the bottom of the flyleaf reading ‘In memory of a meeting. “JBA”’.
