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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound volume containing the six monthly issues from January to June, 1867. Size about 6 by 8 1/2 inches with some 760 pages. Bound in marbled paper over boards with leather spine and tips. Illustrated with a dozen full page images (Some with tissue guard) and many smaller drawings. This volume notable for containing Chapters XXXIV thru XLVIII (Conclusion) of 'The Claverings' by Anthony Trollope. Also work by W M Thackeray; whaling article; and much else. Rubbing to the marbled boards and spine; wear through at tips; shelf wear; previous owner name at the front; some evidence of damp at the top of some pages; rear hinge cracked. A very tight clean book. VERY GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: The Book Scot, mansfield, MO, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. The Claverings Volume I Only. Smith Elder & Co, London, 1867.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: previous owner's name, hinges starting, corners and spine ends are worn, and the book has a slight slant
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Anthony Trollope. The Claverings (2 Vols.). Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1867.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1867 true 1st edition, in 2 volumes. Both volumes tight and VG in a contermporary-to-the-period half-calf over chocolate-brown boards. Light wear at the tips and along the hinges, light scuffing to the spine and wear at the spine ends. Intermittent foxing as well to the text. Still though, well-preserved and very presentable. Octavos, 622 pgs. all told, 15 of the 16 engraved plates present.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Claverings. Smith, Elder, London, 1867.
Price: US$848.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vols. Illustrations. Contemporary half calf. A very good set of the first edition
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Trollope, Anthony. The Claverings.. Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1867.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this work by Trollope. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half leather. In very good condition. With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards. The Claverings is a novel by Anthony Trollope, written in 1864 and published in 1866â"67. It is the story of a young man starting out in life, who must find himself a profession and a wife; and of a young woman who makes a marriage of convenience and must accept the consequences of her decision.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. The Claverings. Smith, Elder, London, 1867.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An important Trollope novel, rather scarce in first edition. 2 volumes in new smooth burgundy buckram bindings with gilt spine lettering, head and tailbands, all edges trimmed and sprinkled pink. Sadleir #27. 16 plates by M. Ellen Edwards, all present and generally very clean. Grubby marks to margins passim, but on the whole a decent set. Bindings are in Fine condition; internally good or better. An attractive and serviceable set of a rare double-decker novel.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Anthony Trollope. The Claverings. Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1867.
Price: US$891.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The two volume first edition in book form of this classic Victorian era Anthony Trollope novel. The first UK edition in book form, originally published serially from February 1866 to May 1867 in the Cornhill Magazine. Illustrated with sixteen plates from English illustrator Mary Ellen Edwards. Collated, complete.The novel tells the story of a young man starting out in life who must find himself a profession and a wife, and of a young woman who makes a marriage of convenience and must accept the consequences of her decision.With the inscription G H Davey to recto of frontispieces, and binder's label of W. Whittington of Neath to rear pastedowns.Sadleir describes this as one of Trollope's five technically faultless books: 'there is not a loose end, not a patch of drowsiness, not a moment of false proportion'. In half calf bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Fading to spines, with losses of leather to back strip heads and tails. Front joint of volume I, and tail of front and rear joints of volume II starting. Front hinge of volume I strained, with boards holding firm. Binders label to rear pastedowns. Inscriptions to recto of frontispieces. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright, with handling marks throughout each volume - most concentrated to volume I - and the odd spot. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Trollope, Anthony. The Claverings. Smith and Elder, London, 1867.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: Edwards. First edition. 16 wood-engraved plates by H. Harral after M. Ellen Edwards. [ii], 313, [1, printer's imprint, Smith, Elder]; [ii], 309, [1] pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Sadleir, Trollope, 27 Bound in three-quarter blue morocco and matching cloth sides, t.e.g., by Bayntun, Binders, Bath. Bookplate. Spine slightly sunned, else fine 16 wood-engraved plates by H. Harral after M. Ellen Edwards. [ii], 313, [1, printer's imprint, Smith, Elder]; [ii], 309, [1] pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. The Claverings. Smith and Elder, London, 1867.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Edwards. First English edition. 16 wood-engraved plates by H. Harral after M. Ellen Edwards. [ii], 313, [1, printer's imprint, Smith, Elder]; [ii], 309, [1] pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Sadleir, Trollope, 27 Publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Volume I rebacked preserving original spine, spine-ends chipped and tips worn, endpapers in volume I replaced, lending library bookplate in volume II, scattered foxing and hand-soiling 16 wood-engraved plates by H. Harral after M. Ellen Edwards. [ii], 313, [1, printer's imprint, Smith, Elder]; [ii], 309, [1] pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1924.01 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form. The Claverings was originally published serially in 16 instalments from February 1866 to May 1867 in the Cornhill Magazine, each accompanied by an illustration. The title page of the US edition is predated to 1866 however was also published in 1867 although the exact date it uncertain; it is therefore unclear whether the US edition precedes the UK edition. Sadleir, Trollope 27. 2 volumes, octavo. Original green embossed cloth, titles and decorations in gilt to spines and front boards, brown coated endpapers, untrimmed. Housed in custom green cloth slipcase. Woodcut frontispieces with tissue guards and 14 similar plates, 2 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end of each vol. A touch of wear to corners, the bindings otherwise bright, hinges tender, occasional light spotting, internally untoned; a very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Trollope, Anthony. THE CLAVERINGS. In Two Volumes. , 1867.
Price: US$5250.00 + shipping
Description: [fine and bright] With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. 2 pp undated ads in each volume. Original green cloth elaborately decorated in black and gilt, board edges beveled. First Edition of these adventures of Harry Clavering, beginning with Julia Brabazon jilting him in favor of a wealthy old debauchee. It is a novel of atmosphere, and the atmosphere is of that sort very dangerous for the English novelist.; the green-lighted, close-scented gambling rooms, the shabby adventures of half-deserted spas, the shelving beaches of foreign watering-places, concealed accents, stolen passports, impoverished counts and impertinent ladies' maids. [Walpole, quoted in Gerould] Trollope himself later recalled that "I consider the story as a whole to be good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." There were no subsequent two-volume editions following this first one. Sadleir notes two very similar binding variants: one (presumably earlier) with the front covers and spines stamped in gilt and in black, and the other identical except that the black-stamping is replaced by blind-stamping. This copy is in between -- a variant not noted by Sadleir: there is black-and-gold-stamping on the spines, but gold-and-blind-stamping on the front covers (there is always just blind-stamping on the rear covers). Condition is remarkably fine and bright, with the only flaws being a tiny rubbed spot at the foot of Volume I's spine, and one slightly cracked (original) coffee-brown endpaper. Sadleir (TROLLOPE) 27; Wolff 6771 (with cloth stamping identical to this set's). Housed in a handsome morocco-backed slipcase with black leather labels, with inner chemise. Provenance (in addition to binder Burn's ticket in Vol I and Glasgow bookseller MacLehose's ticket in Vol II): bookplates of Philadelphian Moncure Biddle (1882-1956), whose library was sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1952 (lot 749), plus bookplates of "Yardley."
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. The Claverings. Smith and Elder, London, 1867.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings for all three books in the three volume set. A beautiful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's green cloth. The books are in great shape. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Trollope Anthony. THE CLAVERINGS. London Smith, Elder and Co. 1867, 1867.
Price: US$9350.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First edition and first printing other then when serialized in Cornhill Magazine. Illustrated with sixteen wood-engraved plates after M. Ellen Edwards, two of which are frontispieces. Tall 8vos, in the publisher's original handsome Victorian decorated cloth, this is scarcer of the two variants noted by Sadleir, with the decoration in gilt and black as opposed to gilt and blind. Sadleir notes, "I do not know which style is earlier, but would, on general principles, incline to favour that with the additional black-blocking." The volumes are gilt and black decorated and elaborately lettered on the upper covers and spines in a stylized arabesque motif, the rear covers decorated in blind only, both volumes with original brown endpapers. The volumes now housed in two matching slipcases, each with a morocco labeled chemise gilt lettered. [ii], 313, [2 ads]; [ii], 309, [2 ads] pp. An exceptional set, very beautifully preserved, the paper fresh and bright with just a meager hint of spotting at the prelims only, the cloth vivid and clean with bright gilt and black decoration on dark unfaded green, only a touch of bumping to the extremities nearly not worth mentioning. A VERY SCARCE TROLLOPE OFFERING, IN THE BEST AND RARER BINDING AND IN UNMATCHED CONDITION. The Sadleir-Martin copy was also in this rarer binding and may well be the last copy comparable with ours to have appeared in auction, and that sale was nearly thirty years ago. THE CLAVERINGS is one of what Sadleir described as one of Trollope's five technically faultless books, "there is not a loose end, not a patch of drowsiness, not a moment of false proportion." More recent critics regard the book even more highly, such as David Skilton, who wrote that "it has been usual to pronounce it among the most perfect and attractive productions of the novelist's pen." The novel is the story of a young man starting out in life, who must find himself a profession and a wife; and of a young woman who made a marriage of convenience and must abide the consequences. It was very popular upon publication but then went through a period of being nearly forgotten prior to being rediscovered in the later 20th century. The sheer volume of Trollope's productions in the years shortly after may have simply overwhelmed his readers.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.