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Trollope, Anthony. The Bertrams: A Novel. Harper and Brothers, 1859.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1859 edition. Heavily chipped and torn spine; some wear to the edges of the green boards. The pages have some discolored, stained edges; cracking binding. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 180803.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. The Bertrams: A Novel. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1859.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition. 528 pp. Rebound in yellow cloth and marbled boards. Small ink underline on title page, foxing and light wear to text.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Bertrams. A Novel. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1859.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth, faded. Gilt lettering on spine. Yellow endpapers. Early dark comedic novel featuring protagonist George Bertram, written by successful and prolific English novelist of the Victorian era. Trollope's second novel printed in America, preceded by Doctor Thorne the previous year. Good, several inch tear to cloth at front spine edge. Spine ends worn down, bookplate removed from front pastedown. Dent top front cover.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, 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, a novel. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1859.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Harper & Brothers, NY, 1859, 1st American edition, 528 pages, 5-1/4"x 7-7/8", hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt titles, edge and corner fraying, covers mildly scuffed, 1/8" missing top of spine, 1/4" of cloth missing at bottom of spine showing striped tail band beneath, former owner's small penciled name & date (July 18, 1859) on top of title page, light foxing some page edges, occasional light soil in page margins, pages 275-278 have very lightly worn fore-edge, otherwise contents clean and tight, book good (G) 3104 [HOss73ES]
Seller: Librarium, East Chatham, NY, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. THE BERTRAMS. A Novel. , 1859.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 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 experience, THE BERTRAMS is considerably scarcer than Harper's subsequent double-columned Trollope American editions. W. Smith pp 5-8 (this copy is the one pictured on page 5); see Sadleir (TROLLOPE) 8.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. THE BERTRAMS. A Novel. , 1859.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 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 yellowish brown"); see Sadleir (TROLLOPE) 8.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. The Bertrams. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1859.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. iv, 528 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Trollope's second novel printed in America, preceded by Doctor Thorne printed the previous year. Wolff 6768; Smith, Anthony Trollope, a Bibliography of His First American editions, #2 Bound in publisher's pebbled morocco and marbled boards, marbled edges. Almost fine. Provenence: Harper family
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.