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Trollope, Anthony. THE BERTRAMS a Novel, in Three Volumes, Volume 1. Chapman & Hall, London, 1859.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: OLD 020176LIVEZEY Scarce. Very solid brown quarter leather, with brown pebbly buckram boards. 5 Raised leather bands on spine. The leather corners are rather heavily scuffed, and the gilt labels for the spine are missing, with the exception of the title label itself, which is laid inside. There is a name at the top of the front inside board, otherwise the inside is generally nice, though with an occasional small smudge, spot or fingerprint.
Seller: Walk A Crooked Mile Books, Williamsburg, PA, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. The Bertrams. A Novel. Harper & Bros, New York, 1859.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Bros, 1859. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was a prolific and popular novelist whose reputation and popularity has been restored in the 21st century. "The Bertrams" was his fifth novel, coming on the heels of several failed attempts that had Ireland as the subject matter. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition, issued in the same year as the English version from Chapman and Hall. Green pebbled cloth binding with stamped decoration on the front and rear covers, gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 528 pages. There are two previous-owner signatures (1859 & 1941) on the FFEP. Bumped corners and rubbing/chipping to the head and foot of the spine, which has darkened to a dark brown. The front gutter is cracked but holding. Basically a sound-enough copy, but not for the advanced collector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. The Bertrams. Volumes II &III. Chapman & Hall Ltd.,, 1859.
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Description: 2nd edn., Hardback. Vols 2 & 3 (of 3). original grey/brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Both volumes have slight spine lean and minor wear to corners, else in smart condition. Page edges dusty on both and some edge foxing to vol. 3. Fep of vol 2 has owner's label & neat inscription and rear hinge just stating to crack. Sporadic spotting and marks to a few pages, but both vols. generally clean internally. In VG condition, looking for a similar volume 1.
Seller: Sally Smith Books, Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
TROLLOPE Anthony. The Bertrams. A Novel. Chapman & Hall 1859 (second edition), 1859.
Price: US$564.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: three volumes, contemporary-style half-leather over marbled boards, raised bands, leather labels, a handsome set. same year as the first edition; 353, 344 and 331 pages; keywords: fiction;
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
TROLLOPE, Anthony.. The Bertrams. A novel. 2nd edn. 3 vols.. Chapman & Hall. 1859, 1859.
Price: US$818.40 + shipping
Description: Orig. dark pink sand-grained cloth, borders blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt; spines faded to brown & with some well-executed minor repairs, sl. marked. See Trollope Society Catalogue 8; see Sadleir 8. Published the same year as the first edition. Sadleir notes, 'this is identical with the first in every respect, and I doubt if more was done than to overprint the title-page with the words 'Second Edition''.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
TROLLOPE, Anthony.. The Bertrams. A Novel. In Three Volumes.. London: Chapman & Hall, 1859, 1859.
Price: US$1603.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, an attractive set of Trollope's "curiously uncommon book" (Sadleir), much of the action of which takes place in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, "the most extended use of his travel experience in a major novel" ( p. 169). "Toward the beginning and end of this work, the hero, George Betram, travels in Palestine and Egypt, occasionally touched by Oriental romance or spiritual insight, but mainly finding himself in situations that undermine such lofty sentiments. The filth in the streets, the torture of a Turkish saddle, the outrageous assaults by would-be guides, all these and more prove fatal to romanticized perception. Moreover, George's access to what is foreign in the places he visits is checked by the fact that he moves among his countrymen and stays in the hostelries recommended to the English, institutions that create an enveloping little England abroad" (Buzard, ibid.). Provenance: delightful and highly appealing bookplates of Ernest G. Mocatta (1849-1927), City stockbroker, finely engraved by the bookplate specialist Charles William Sherborn; and H. C. Drayton, chairman of the British Electric Traction Company and an important collector of Defoe and Swift, engraved by the distinguished British printmaker Alfred Charles Stanley Anderson. James Buzard in Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope, Cambridge University Press, 2011; Sadleir, Trollope 8, p. 267. 3 volumes, octavo (186 x 118 mm). Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in tawny half morocco, spines with five low raised bands decorated with multiple gilt fillets closed with foliate finials, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, foliate motif in others, sides and corners trimmed with a single gilt fillet, marbled sides, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom brown buckram slipcase. Bindings lightly rubbed and scuffed, faint toning to contents, else internally clean; a very good set indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
TROLLOPE, Anthony.. The Bertrams. A Novel. In Three Volumes.. Chapman and Hall. London, 1859.
Price: US$3206.90 + shipping
Description: First edition. Three volumes. Scarce. iv, 335; iv, 344; iv, 331pp. Original brown cloth gilt, rebacked with original spines laid down. Original e/ps retained. Sl. lean to all vols. Cloth rubbed and sl. soiled and label removed from upper bd of vol. III. Pages browned, neat ownership signature to each volume. generally a clean and sound set. VG.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Trollope Anthony. THE BERTRAMS. A Novel. London Chapman & Hall 1859, 1859.
Price: US$4950.00 + shipping
Description: 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 the most serious objection which can be brought against the book from the point of view of literature is that it is too much like life." - Algar Thorold, 1905. While it may seem odd today for a novel to be criticized for being too much like life, for its time The Bertrams has a dark tone, yet, it is scattered with comical minor characters; to us it seems very fresh and modern. It also includes hilarious descriptions of British tourists in the Middle East.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.