The Bertrams. A Novel de Trollope, Anthony - 1859

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Variant state of binding in red pebble grain cloth with the embossed designs of the first binding. In other respects uniform with Smith's description of the first American edition. Bound in the original red cloth with gilt title to spine and embossed design to both covers. Rubbing to hinges, edges, and rear board. Chipping to cloth along spine ends, some text leaves foxed, and binder's leaf at the end lacking. Cock to spine. Book-plate on the front pastedown with ink name and date [1860] on the front free endpaper. 528 pages. LIT/101916.

1859. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American (and first one-volume) Edition. This was not generally regarded as one of Trollope's better efforts; the author himself remarked in his autobiography, I do not know that I have ever heard it well spoken of by my friends, and I cannot remember that there is any character in it that has dwelt in the minds of novel-readers. Much of the novel's action takes place in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, where George Bertram meets the father he had not seen since his boyhood. THE BERTRAMS was Trollope's second book to be published in America, following DOCTOR THORNE the previous year. This is a very good copy, perhaps near-fine (slight wear at the spine ends, one small nick in the front cover cloth, light foxing as always with this 1850s paper). The front free endpaper bears the blind-stamp of Stanwood & Souther (bookseller in Augusta Maine in 1859), as well as the early signature of a woman from that same town. In our… Leer más

1859. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Original blind-stamped purple-brown morocco-grain cloth. First American (and first one-volume) Edition. This was not generally regarded as one of Trollope's better efforts; the author himself remarked in his autobiography, I do not know that I have ever heard it well spoken of by my friends, and I cannot remember that there is any character in it that has dwelt in the minds of novel-readers. Much of the novel's action takes place in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, where George Bertram meets the father he had not seen since his boyhood. THE BERTRAMS was Trollope's second book to be published in America, following DOCTOR THORNE the previous year. This is a very good-plus copy, perhaps near-fine (the usual fading of purple-hued cloth, occasional light foxing, but little wear). In our experience, THE BERTRAMS is considerably scarcer than Harper's subsequent double-columned Trollope American editions. W. Smith pp 5-8 (where he labels this color "dark grayish… Leer más

London: Chapman & Hall, 1859. 3 volumes. First edition. 8vo, original publisher's brown cloth, the boards decorated in blind, the spines sometime very expertly rebacked but retaining the original blind-decorated and gilt lettered spine panels. Now housed in a very handsome custom clamshell box of marbled paper backed in dark brown morocco gilt lettered and banded. iv, 335; iv, 344; iv, 331pp. A very handsome set, the cloth especially well preserved with the restoration done being extremely discreet and unobtrusive, the text much nicer than is typically found, the paper clean and fresh with any spotting being only very occasion and extremely minor, everything tight and sound, a superior copy to set to any other we are aware of currently in commerce. A VERY SCARCE TROLLOPE FIRST EDITION, AND QUITE RARE INDEED. IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. One of the author's most elusive works, The Bertrams is an unusual novel of world travel, matrimony, money, social strata, and relationships. "...perhaps… Leer más