Dickens (Charles) Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, wood-engraved frontispieces and 38 plates by Marcus Stone, without advertisements, occasional light foxing, pencil ownership inscriptions to endpapers, original cloth, spines slightly darkened, spine ends and corners bumped with some chipping to spine ends, vol. 1 with short split to head of lower joint, extremities rubbed, but a good example overall, [Eckel pp. 94-5; Smith I, 15], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1865; American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol., second edition, half-titles, ink ownership inscriptions to head of titles, original blind-stamped cloth, slight shelf-lean, light sunning to spines, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light spotting to covers, [cf. Eckel pp.108-9], Chapman and Hall, 1842 § [Wood (Henry)] Change for the American Notes: in letters from London to New York. By an American Lady, first edition, lower hinge weak, original blind-stamped cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine darkened, extremities bumped, rubbed, Wiley & Putnam, 1843; and the special issue of Brother Jonathan containing the first American edition of American Notes, 8vo & 4to (6)

⁂ A good group relating to Dickens' travelogue and critique of American society including a scarce riposte by the Yorkshire journalist Henry Wood.