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Anthony Trollope. The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Chapman & Hall, London, 1860.
Price: US$55.91 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1860. 371 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Trollope, Anthony. The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Chapman & Hall, London, 1860.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Frontispiece map. Rebound in maroon library binding with gilt titles; new endpapers. map, pp 175, 227 & 395 repaired; edges slightly yellowed; top edge dust-stained; internally a bit grubby. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Caledonia Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporay half calf over marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, brown morocco gilt spine label; iv,[5]-371pp.; color folding map frontispiece. Boards quite rubbed with leather rather dried with some peeling, spine label partly separated, some brief soil to preliminaries, mid-20th-century ownership bookplate to front pastedown together with manuscript address and pressure stamp to flyleaf, else About Very Good, internally sound. Dated 1860 though Sadleir places the publication date of this edition to early 1861. SADLEIR 9.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
TROLLOPE, Anthony.. The West Indies and the Spanish Main. 3rd edn.. Chapman & Hall. 1860, 1860.
Price: US$212.56 + shipping
Description: Col. front. map, 32pp. cata., (Feb. 1860). Orig. maroon cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; spine sl. faded & sl. worn at head & tail, following inner hinge sl. cracked. Armorial bookplate of John Howard Galton; small stamp of St. Richard's College Priest's Library, Hadzor, & ticket holder on e.p. See Trollope Society Catalogue 9; See Sadleir 9. A chronicle of Trollope's travels through Barbados, the Bermudas, British Guiana, Central America, Cuba, Jamaica, New Granada, St. Thomas, Trinidad, etc.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$364.00 + shipping
Description: Fourth Edition (in format identical to the first) of this chronicle of Trollope's travels through Barbados, the Bermudas, Cuba, Jamaica, New Granada, St. Thomas, and Trinidad, written while he was on post office business in the West Indies. Crown 8vo (196 x 118mm): iv,5-371,[1],32[publishers' catalogue dated February, 1860]pp, with colored folding map frontispiece. Original grained maroon cloth, covers and spine blocked in blind, spine lettered in gold, edges uncut, pale yellow end papers. Binding lightly rubbed, but tightly bound and clean throughout, a collectible copy. Sadleir 9 (incorrectly dating this edition 1861). Terry, pp. 582-84. The first of Trollope's travel books, originally published the previous year. "Trollope sailed for the West Indies on 17 November 1858, his second postal mission . . . He checked postal routes meticulously . . . prescribed economies, and initiated changes. . . . Henceforth travel would become more important in his life, feeding into his fiction . . . The West Indies and the Spanish Main . . . is rich in observation, commentary on people and places, and careful evaluation of practical issues. His forthright views on race mirror contemporary thinking but have their own integrity based on observation. The book is rich too in anecdote, incident, description, as well as humour." (Terry) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$512.53 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. iv, 395 + 32(December 1859 Publisher's Catalogue). hand-coloured engraved frontis. map. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked with spine mounted, endpapers retained (cloth slightly rubbed, spine dull, small stain to first two leaves). in cloth slipcase. Second Edition. The result of Trollope's expedition on behalf of the post office to the West Indies in 1858-59, one of several such missions undertaken at public expense and which excited public comment. "Sir Rowland Hill, however, Trollope's decided adversary in most things, has left it upon record that his mission to the West Indies was fruitful in valuable results, and that his suggestions for the improvement of the packet service had the assent of nautical men." (DNB) ".a highly entertaining book of travel, considered by the writer as the best of his work of this kind." (Ibid.) The penultimate chapter is devoted to the Bermudas. Cundall 2290. cfIrwin p. 40.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
TROLLOPE, Anthony.. The West Indies and the Spanish Main.. Chapman and Hall, London., 1860.
Price: US$740.75 + shipping
Description: Second edition. Octavo. pp iv, 395. Handcoloured frontispiece map. 32-page publishers' catalogue, dated December 1859, at rear. Original burgundy straight-grained cloth decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. The author travels through the Caribbean and Central American, visiting, among other places, Jamaica, Cuba, Barbados, Trinidad, Panama, Bermuda and Costa Rica.On the front pastedown is the armorial bookplate of William Leverett Chase. Inner hinges starting to split. Small areas of fading to spine. Very good indeed. Scarce in such bright condition.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom