[in original wrappers] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original light brown printed wrappers (dated Nov. 1866 on the rear wrapper). First Edition printed in America, issued as No. 263 of Harper's "Library of Select Novels." As Smith describes in great detail, in preparing the UK edition for publication, Chapman.....
With Illustrations, by H. K. Browne. New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 2-page terminal list of Harper's Library of Select Novels, ending with #258. Original dark blue-green honeycomb-grain cloth. First American Edition of the first of Trollope's six "Palliser" novels, published in September 1865, the month after the final UK.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 6 pp undated ads (final three leaves of the last gathering). Original dark purple-red horizontally-ribbed morocco-grain cloth. First American Edition of this novel sited in Ireland during the famine of 1846-1847. The author later wrote of it in his autobiography, This novel... is of itself.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original "grayish reddish brown" diagonal dot-and-ribbon grain cloth. First Edition (preceding the UK) of these adventures of Harry Clavering, beginning with Julia Brabazon jilting him in favor of a wealthy old debauchee. Trollope himself later recalled that "I consider the story as a whole.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. 24 pp Vol III undated ads. Original blue-green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of the sixth and last Palliser novel. Since the end of THE PRIME MINISTER, the Duchess of Omnium has died, leaving to the Duke the care of their three children; just.....
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original dark green cloth. First Edition (Harper's one-volume edition was published in October 1872; the London three-decker, dated 1873, came out two months later, in December 1872). This is Trollope's tale about the adventuress Lizzie Greystock --.....
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original printed buff wrappers. Early edition in wrappers, being No. 577 in Harper's "Library of Select Novels." Harper's first edition (published a few days earlier than the 1873-dated London three-decker) came out in October 1872 and was.....
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original medium-green cloth. First Edition (Harper's one-volume edition was published in October 1872; the London three-decker, dated 1873, came out two months later, in December 1872). This is Trollope's tale about the adventuress Lizzie Greystock -- "the.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Original antique-rose cloth. First Edition of one of the strangest of all of Trollope's novels, about the imaginary, dystopian, former British colony of Britannula in the mid-20th Century... On an imaginary island near Australia over which the English had renounced their sovereignty, a......
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary ads plus 4 pp at rear, undated. Original light brown printed wrappers. First American (and first illustrated) Edition, later issue, being No. 579 in Harper's Library of Select Novels. This tale takes place at the Lion d'Or, the only.....
![JOHN CALDIGATE. In Three Volumes [in one]. Anthony Trollope](/pictures/thumb/14757.JPG?v=1621531204)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1879. Original scarlet cloth decorated in black. First Edition, third binding state (three-volumes-in-one), of this adventurous tale. "The plot is one of his most interesting, ingenious, elaborate, and unexpected" [Walpole]. John Caldigate goes to Australia to seek his fortune in the gold mines, and winds up.....
With Illustrations by George H. Thomas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. 2 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth. First Complete (which is to say, the American) Edition of the sixth and last of the Barsetshire Novels, with illustrations by the same artist as in the UK. This American edition.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 32 pp Vol I ads dated March 1883. Original blue-green cloth decorated in reddish-brown. First Edition of this novel about a man who valued his estate above his honor, and who accordingly tried to have his cake and eat it too... "He was luxurious and.....
With Illustrations by J.E. Millais. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt-decorated spines. First Edition in book form (the two volumes were issued nine months apart during serialization of the twenty monthly parts). Included are forty full-page plates by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais. "While.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Original rose cloth, beveled. First Edition of this collection of pieces such as "The Family that Goes Abroad because it's the thing to do," "The Unprotected Female Tourist," and "Tourists who don't like their Travels." This book was issued as a companion volume to HUNTING.....
[the first Barsetshire novel] London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Bound in three-quarter light brown calf with leather spine labels, with patterned paper-covered boards. First Edition of Trollope's fourth novel, preceded only by THE MACDERMOTS of BALLYCLORAN [1847], THE KELLYS AND THE O'KELLYS [1848] and LA VENDÉE [1850]. THE.....
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. 4 pp preliminary undated ads plus 8 pp undated (but "summer") ads. Original green cloth. First American Edition of one of Trollope's six "social satire" novels, published a month after the London two-decker (and with many of the same illustrations -- which.....
[a beautiful copy of the true fir] (Tom Sawyer's Comrade.) With 174 Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. 32 pp ads dated Oct 1884. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, first state (with the October 1884 ad catalogue). With all of the attention given to the many.....
Hartford [etc.]: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 4 pp ads dated 1 Dec 1876. Original publisher's brown half-morocco, spine decorated in darker brown, with brown cloth boards, all page edges gilt. First American Edition, third printing, in the uncommon half-morocco binding offered by the publisher at extra cost. There were.....
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Original grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in black and dark green. First Edition of this novel in which Twain tried, unsuccessfully, to recreate the character of Colonel Sellers from THE GILDED AGE. This American edition came out in late March or early April.....
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Original olive-green cloth pictorially decorated in black and dark green. First Edition of this novel in which Twain tried, unsuccessfully, to recreate the character of Colonel Sellers from THE GILDED AGE. This American edition came out in late March or early April.....
![A BOY'S ADVENTURE [The Whipping Boy's Story]. Mark Twain](/pictures/thumb/14784.JPG?v=1625755264)
From the Bazaar Budget, Hartford, June 4, 1880. [No place: privately printed for Merle Johnson, 1928.] Original folded leaf forming four pages. First Edition. Twain originally wrote this chapter, "The Whipping Boy's Story" -- the tale of a boy trying to ride an unrideable bull -- as part of THE.....
With More Than 300 Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, all edges gilt. First American Edition, published five days after Chatto & Windus's London edition. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is really two books combined. The first twenty-one chapters are his.....
New York: Sheldon & Company, n.d. [1871]. Original printed wrappers. First Edition, second state (with the Ball Black & Co. ad on the inside front cover) of this comically-illustrated burlesque. This title was also issued in cloth. This is a near-fine copy (very little wear other than one small corner chip.....
New York: Sheldon & Company, n.d. [1871]. Original purple cloth. First Edition, first issue (without the Ball Black & Co. advertisement on the title verso). This is very early Twain -- his third book, preceded only by THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG and THE INNOCENTS ABROAD. Twain's "burlesque autobiography" briefly runs.....
