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Anthony Trollope. North America. Harper & Brothers, 1862.
Price: US$15.31 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Wear to covers and spine, corners bumped and worn, boards showing, edges worn, most of spine missing, remainder chipped and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, some light foxing, first and last few pages more so, binding a little loose
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. NORTH AMERICA. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1862.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo; Fair; Hardcover; Spine, brown with gold print; Boards in brown cloth with gold print, publisher name blind stamped to center of front and rear, tattering to corners and spine caps, tears along front and rear hinges, shelfwear; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf, shaken binding, foxing to endpapers, light amount of foxing throughout, light amount of pencil notation throughout; vii, 623 pages. 1333823. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. North America. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1862.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Good. Rebacked with most of original backstrip attached. Boards exposed at the edges where the cloth is most notably rubbed. Corners lightly bumped. Previous owner's biographical notes about Trollope on front pastedown. Text is solid and clean
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony.. NORTH AMERICA.. Harper & Brothers, New York: 1862., 1862.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 623, 4 [Publisher's catalogue]. Some signatures loose. Penciled ownership of B. Richards, Jr. Large 12mo. Disbound. Interesting travel reports and observations were the first published works of Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), who became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. SHELF W29 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. North America. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1862.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Description: 1st American edition, a pirate version published before the authorized edition. Account of the author's trip to North America at the time of the American Civil War. Appendices: A. Declaration of Independence. B. Articles of Confederation. C. Constitution of the United States. Includes publisher's list. Brown cloth blindstamped cover, with "Harpers" samped in center, gold title on spine. Spine covering has cracked along the edge, corners and edges are worn. Binding tight, some foxing throughout. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.
Seller: Steven Edwards, Coalmont, TN, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. North America. Harper & Brothers, New York, NY, 1862.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: vii + 623 + 4 pages of publishers' announcements. Contents with the author's rambling travels about the North American continent, in the U.S. & Canada; with the distinction that it was written during the American Civil War. In the Introduction, the author makes the point that ".My wish is to describe as well as I can the present social and political state of the country. This I should have attempted, with more personal satisfaction in the work, had there been no disruption between the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried out. I am therefore forced to take the subject in its present condition, and being so forced I must write of the war, of the causes which have led to it, and of its probable termination. But I wish it to be understood that it was not my selected task to do so, and it is not now my primary object." The Appendices contain the 1776 Declaration of Independence; the 1778 Articles of Confederation, Etc. and the Constitution of the United States. Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) British novelist, ".The quantity of his accomplishment remains astonishing: forty-seven novels, five volumes of collected short stories, plus a handful of uncollected stories. He wrote four large travel books: The West Indies and the Spanish Main (1859), North America (1862), Australia and New Zealand (1873), South Africa (1878); and a slight book on Iceland. An indefatigable, unstoppable traveller all his life, Trollope, in James Anthony Froude's words, 'banged about the world' much more than most people, (Escott, 133).).A huge, solid base of Trollope readers has existed since his death." (N. John Hall in the ODNB) Title page with the previous owner name-stamp of collector and Civil War veteran George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector, from 1861-1894. Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" size, bound in the original dark brown textured and blind-stamped cloth covered boards, spine gilt titled. Some edge, tips wear and rubbing to the binding, surface cloth of spine ends chipped away; contents in very good condition.
Seller: Certain Books, ABAA, Bolivia, NC, U.S.A.
Anthony Trollope. North America. Harper & Bothers, New York, 1862.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition (unauthorized). 1862, black cloth blind stamped. VERY GOOD condition: some slight foxing on end papers. small spot wearing on edge of spine.
Seller: Manning's Books & Prints, ABAA, Pacifica, CA, U.S.A.
Anthony Trollope. North America. Harper & Brothers, 1862.
Price: US$98.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 3/4 leather with black textured boards. Looks like a later professional repair/reinforcement. Spine faded, general shelf wear. Occasional foxing, most pages clean. Binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony f3a. NORTH AMERICA (1st ed). Harper, NY, 1862.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: VG book. Original brown cloth cover. Gilt lettered spine. Tight binding. NO aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. 8vo, 623pp. Very clean book, in & out. Originally published in London in two vols & a map. This edition was pirated by Harpers, in one vol with no map. Bright & attractive. Both boards edge ruled in blind with decorative devices. "Harpers" blind stamped in center. Gilt lettered spine: "NORTH AMERICA by ANTHONY TROLLOPE". Spine blind stamped with floral & geometric designs. Cover extrems with minor wear. VG book. Blind stamped decorative edge ruling. Worn cover.
Seller: Quiet Friends IOBA, Lyndonville, NY, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. North America. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1862.
Price: US$130.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: brown cloth binding; lettering in gilt on spine; 623 pages followed by 4 pages of publisher's ads; the book has been rebound with new end papers; the Harper issue is a pirated publication which shortly preceded the Lippincott authorized publication; hinges tight; spine is square; minor age toning to pages; virtually no shelf rubbing; Trollope in addition to travelling through many American States, he also travelled and reported on the Niagara area, Upper Canada and Lower Canada; chapters include his views on the American Constitution, the U.S. Government, its law courts, lawyers, financial affairs etc.
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Trollope, Anthony.. North America.. NY. Harper & Brothers. 1862., 1862.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Pirated Edition. Complete text in one volume (623pp.) and 4 pages of Fresh Books of Travel and Adventure. VG- bound in pebbled black cloth stamped brightly in gilt on the spine; and with lots of blindstamping on the entire binding. Very attractive. With a touch of fraying and light chipping to the top and bottom of the spine. The front and rear boards are bordered by concentric rectangles with different patterns (e.g. woven rope). Lightly shaken. Endpapers lightly foxed. First Pirated Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. North America. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1862.
Price: US$156.25 + shipping
Description: First (pirated) American edition, 8vo, 2 vols. in 1, pp. vii, [1], 623, [1], 4 (ads); spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, else good in orig. dull maroon cloth. Sadlier, Trollope, 14.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
TROLLOPE, Anthony. North America. Harper, New York, 1862.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, original brown textured cloth, stamped in blind; worn at the edges & sides of spine. New York: Harper, 1862. First Edition. Old ownership signature on flyleaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
TROLLOPE, Anthony. North America. , 1862.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: TROLLOPE, Anthony. North America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1862. 1st American ed. vii, 623 pp. Orig. cloth. A very good copy. This unauthorized edition precedes the Phila. authorized edition by a few days.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
TROLLOPE, Anthony [1815-1882].. North America.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1862., 1862.
Price: US$277.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. vii, 623, 4(ads). original blind-stamped cloth (corners, joints & spine ends chipped & frayed, dampstaining to endpapers). First American Edition a pirate, preceding by four days the official version published in Philadelphia by Lippincott. The English novelist travelled in America from August 1861 to February 1862. Chapters IV-VII, pp. 43-98, deal with Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Niagara Falls, and the connection between Canada and Great Britain. Among other things Trollope comments on the Civil War and its causes, education, the New York State constitution, the rights of women, government and the American constitution, law courts and lawyers, the post office, hotels, literature, &c. Irwin p. 30. TPL 4097. Dionne II 1460. Gagnon I 3579. cfSadleir 14.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Trollope, Anthony. North America. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1862.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The binding is very good, the contents clean. There is some spotting to the endpapers. Hinges secure. This is the unauthorized edition, published by Harper.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. North America. J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia, 1862.
Price: US$413.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. [2], iii-iv, 5-335, [1]; [2], iii-iv, 5-334, [4] pp. Brown textured publisher's cloth. Off-white endpapers and pastedowns. Sadleir 14. Two volumes bound in one, a common practice with this edition. The authorized American edition of Trollope's travel narrative of the states and Canada. Trollope's trip begins in New England and stretches up to Canada (in the Niagara Falls area), Trollope then concludes his journey in Washington D.C. His wife accompanied him on his trip. Harper and Brothers sold a cheaper edition shortly before Lippincott could get theirs to market, a fascinating example of American literary piracy in the nineteenth century. Rebacked with the original spine laid down, a small bookplate on the front pastedown and two ink inscriptions on the free front endpaper.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. NORTH AMERICA. [In Two Volumes.]. , 1862.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. Original blind-stamped brown pebbled cloth. First Authorized American Edition, believed to have followed Harper's pirated edition by a mere four days. This work is not only a geographical description of North America; Trollope also gets into such questions as "Deficiencies in the Post Office System," "Amount of the Debt - Can the Burden be Borne?" and "Rights of Women" -- topics no less timely now. Given the year, Trollope also discusses the Civil War then raging. Trollope's wife Rose accompanied him on most of this trip, acting as his amanuensis; it is said that the book's spontaneity declines at the point she left for London -- reflecting how much harder it was for him to write out his thoughts rather than to dictate them freely. The preliminary "Author's Edition" note (added to the two-in-one copies) indicates that this edition was "published by special arrangement with the Author, at whose urgent request it was undertaken, and to whom we pay regular copyright" -- a thinly-veiled swipe at Harper's piracy. Harper had far greater distribution resources, and as a result this Lippincott edition sold poorly, and is considerably scarcer today. Though initially issued in two volumes, as here, "within a few days, the remaining sheets were bound into one volume to reduce the price necessitated by Harper's cheaper [60¢ vs $1.50] edition" [Smith] -- thus this edition is usually found two-volumes-in-one. This is a near-fine set (a little wear at the foot of the spines, but otherwise very nice). W. Smith pp 43-44; see Sadleir (TROLLOPE) 14 (note; also p. 3 of the addenda).
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.