In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. Original pinkish-ochre cloth decorated in black. First Edition, published at the end of this novel's serialization in Temple Bar magazine.~THE AMERICAN SENATOR will be read for the sake of its opening chapters, which set before the reader in a few pages the... More
In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. Original pinkish-ochre cloth decorated in black. First Edition, published at the end of this novel's serialization in Temple Bar magazine.~THE AMERICAN SENATOR will be read for the sake of its opening chapters, which set before the reader in a few pages the... More
In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1881. Original light orange cloth decorated in black. First Edition of "possibly the most unjustly neglected of all Trollope's novels... What vigour of scene and creation, what vitality of action and dialogue it contains" [Walpole]. Carefree Ayala Dormer, left with no means of... More
[the FINE Lord Esher set] In Three Volumes. [Vol. I Third Impression.] London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Original blind-stamped scarlet cloth. First Edition, mixed issue (Vol. I is actually a copy from the "Third Edition," which is the third and last printing of the first edition; Vols. II and III... More
[in original wrappers] A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original light brown printed wrappers (dated Jan 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... More
1868. London: Virtue & Co., 1868. Original bright green cloth. First Edition of this collection of eight pieces on outdoor "sports and pastimes" -- namely horse-racing, hunting, shooting (birds), fishing, yachting, rowing, alpine climbing and cricket. All had appeared, between December 1867 and August 1868, in Saint Paul's Magazine, of... More
With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards. In Two Volumes. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. 2 pp undated ads in each volume. Original green cloth elaborately decorated in blind and gilt, beveled. First Edition of these adventures of Harry Clavering, beginning with Julia Brabazon jilting him in favor of... More
London: Strahan & Co., 1870. Original terra-cotta cloth. First Edition of this collection of six Trollope short stories, all of which had appeared in Saint Paul's Magazine between October 1869 and May 1870. The stories are loosely connected: a magazine editor (Trollope was the editor of Saint Paul's) is approached... More
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 --... More
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... More
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... More
In Three Volumes. With Six Illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. 16 pp Vol III ads dated May 1861. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt-decorated spines. First Edition. This was the fourth of the six Barsetshire Novels, centering about the Rev. Mark Robarts and... More
With Sixty-four Illustrations by Marcus Stone. [In Two Volumes.] London: Strahan and Company, 1869. Original blind-stamped green cloth. First Edition in book form. Louis Trevelyan "knew he was right" about his young wife's infidelity. This is~a long and detailed study of the gradual falling into madness of a suspicious husband..... More
[with October 1864 ads] London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 36 pp ads dated October 1864. Original red cloth, beveled. First Edition of this collection of eight sketches about hunting, such as "The Man who Hunts and doesn't Like it" and "The Man who Hunts and does Like it." Trollope frequently... More
A Novel. In Three Volumes. London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. 2 pp undated ads in Vols I & II (none called for in Vol III). Original reddish-brown cloth decorated in black. First Edition. Like so many Victorian novels, this one hinges upon the question of who is the legitimate (or... More
A New Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. 32 pp ads dated November 1859. Original buff cloth stamped in black and red-orange. Second Edition of Anthony Trollope's second book, preceded only by THE MACDERMOTS OF BALLYCLORAN -- these two being the author's two tales of Irish life, written while he... More
[32 parts in great condition] With Illustrations by George H. Thomas. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1866-1867. [In 32 weekly serial parts.] Original cream wrappers decorated in black, orange and blue. First Edition, in 32 weekly serial parts, of the sixth and last of the Barsetshire Novels. Trollope observed in... More
London: Wm. Isbister, 1882. Original terra-cotta cloth on flexible boards. First Edition, first state -- dated 1882, in smooth cloth and black endpapers (later copies, dated 1883, were in a grained cloth, with white endpapers). This was the second volume in Isbister's ill-fated "English Political Leaders" series, modeled after Macmillan's... More
A Novel. In Three Volumes. London: Chapman & Hall, 1882. Original ochre cloth decorated in black. First Edition of "one of the thinnest and least satisfactory of the [Trollope] novels, relieved only by the abortive conspiracy of Lady Kingsbury and the [unscrupulous family] Chaplain" [Gerould]. The Marquis of Kingsbury's second... More
In Three Volumes. 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... More
A Comedy. Edited with a Preface by Michael Sadleir. London: Constable & Company, 1923. Original blind-stamped deep red cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. This is one of only two plays that Trollope ever wrote, as "the genre was uncomfortable to him." He wrote... More
[in the 20 serial parts] With Illustrations by J. E. Millais. [In 20 monthly serial parts.] London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862. Original printed wrappers. First Edition, in the original twenty serial parts which were issued from March 1861 through October 1862. Included are forty full-page plates by the famous Pre-Raphaelite... More
The Irish Member. A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 2 pp preliminary ads plus 4 pp terminal ads, undated. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. First American Edition of one of Trollope's six "political novels" -- "it is in fact the first in which the affairs of the... More
In Two Volumes. With Illustrations Engraved on Wood. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. Original blue cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Trollope's six "Palliser Novels," following CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?, PHINEAS FINN and THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS. It is primarily a continuation of PHINEAS FINN... More
In Four Volumes. London: Chapman & Hall, 1876. Original reddish-brown cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition in book form. This is the tale describing "the triumph, the troubles, and the failure of my Prime Minister" [Trollope's Autobiography]. Its major theme is "a study of two divergent temperaments: the Duchess striving... More
