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Anthony Trollope. The Way We Live Now. Chapman and Hall, London, 1875.
Price: US$633.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of Anthony Trollope's longest novel, dramatising the 1873 Panic and subsequent economic depression, illustrated throughout by Luke Fildes. The first edition, first printing.Complete in two volumes.Half-title is present to each volume.Volume I illustrated with nineteen plates. Collated, bound without the plate to face page 82.Volume II illustrated with twenty plates. Collated, complete.A satirical novel by Anthony Trollope, 'The Way We Live Now' was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s. In his typical style of social commentary, Trollope laments in this novel the greed and dishonesty that grew from these scandals, as the Panic of 1873 turned into an economic depression in Europe and North America.'The Way We Live Now' is Trollope's longest novel, comprising of one-hundred chapters. This was also one of the last significant Victorian novels to be published in monthly parts, serialised from February 1874 in a total of twenty monthly parts.Illustrated by Luke Fildes. Rebound in a cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, institutional label to the front board of Volume II. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. A little light rubbing to the boards and spines. Cloth to the boards of Volume I is cockled. Small chip to the rear joint of Volume I. A few light marks to the boards. Front hinge of both volumes are strained, rear hinge of both volumes are weak. Remnants of a label to the recto of the front endpaper of Volume I. Internally, binding is strained in places, more so to Volume II. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with the occasional spot, and institutional stamp to a few pages and plates. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Anthony Trollope. The Way We Live Now. Chapman & Hall, 1875.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope. Chapman & Hall, 2 vol., 1875, first UK edition in book form,half-titles, wood-engraved frontispieces and 38 plates by Luke Fildes, some light foxing, damp-staining to a couple of plates, cracking at gutter with a few leaves working loose to vol. 1, vol. 1 hinges repaired but lower hinge cracked, vol. 2 lower hinge broken with contents largely loose, original green cloth blocked in black and gilt, a few small marks to covers, rubbed, chipping to spine ends and corners, [Sadleir 44],
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Anthony Trollope. The Way We Live Now. Chapman and Hall, 1875.
Price: US$1017.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes in original Victorian green cloth boards. The first edition in book form. Frontispiece to each volume and 38 wood-engraved plates (40 in total as asked for) by Luke Fildes; half-titles, slight damp-staining to vol. 1, vol. 1 lower hinge cracked but holding firm. Green cloth blocked in black and gilt, very slight shelf-lean, spine ends and corners a little bumped, vol. 1 with some light mottling to covers, extremities rubbed, but a very good, bright set overall, [Sadleir 44]. Please get in contact for more details and pictures.
Seller: Stephen Butler Rare Books & Manuscripts, Castlethorpe, PROVI, United Kingdom
Price: US$1248.28 + shipping
Description: [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 320; pp.viii; 319; [1]. With forty wood engraved plates after Linton, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines, and decorative ivy patterns stamped to upper boards in black. Volume I had yellow endpapers; volume II dark brown endpapers. Blind W.H. Smith stamp to flyleaf of volume I; black ink ownership to half-title dated 1878. Some spotting around plates. Minor losses to lower corners from p.309 to p.316. Ownership label of M.P. Grace to front pastedown of volume II, which is largely free of spotting. Both volumes with light wear to cloth. Very good.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. The Way We Live Now. Chapman and Hall, London, 1875.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Two Volumes. 6 x 8.75 in. 329; 319 pp. Illustrated with 40 black & white plates after drawings by British artist Lionel Grimston Fawkes. Very good in publisher's grass-green pebbled cloth, titled and decorated in gilt on spines, blocked with a foliage design in black. Light rubbing and mild darkening to spines, and the rear inner hinge of volume I very lightly and partially cracked, though holding. Texts bright and unmarked, with most tissue guards for illustrations still present. A nice set. Attractive engraved book plates of Lady Diana Cooper on the front pastedowns. Cooper (nee Manners) was married to Conservative British MP Duff Cooper, and the couple moved in the circles of "The Coterie," a group of British intellectuals, many of whom had been killed in the First World War. Sadlier 44.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
TROLLOPE, Anthony.. The Way We Live Now.. Chapman and Hall, London., 1875.
Price: US$2496.57 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. Two volumes: pp viii, 320; viii, 319. Forty plates by Luke Fildes. Original green pebbled cloth decorated in gilt, black and blind.Ownership stamp and bookshop blindstamp on each front free endpaper. Covers slightly rubbed at heads and tails of spines and corners. A near fine set. Very bright.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Trollope, Anthony. The Way We Live Now. Chapman and Hall, London, 1875.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Very Good, with cloth light rubbed with touched of fraying at corners and joints, spines slightly darkened, pages lightly toned and with sporadic foxing, and inner hinge of Volume I is neatly repaired. Trollope's longest novels, comprised of 100 chapters.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.