Trollope, Anthony. The Three Clerks: A Novel. Harper and Brothers, 1860.

Price: US$56.25 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Some soiling and wear to the covers, chipped spine tips. Cracked hinge; pages yellowed, a few stained; an original 1860 edition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 180809.

Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.

TROLLOPE, Anthony. THREE CLERKS. , 1860.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: TROLLOPE, Anthony. THE THREE CLERKS. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. First U.S. edition. 8vo., burgundy cloth, blind-stamp insignia to front board, gilt. Pencil ownership to fly-leaf; erasures to ffep, fly-leaf. Volume needs rebinding: front board detached and most of spine cloth rubbed away. A bit age-toned within, else clean. This volume is being offered as is.

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. Three Clerks. Harper Brothers, London, 1860.

Price: US$263.12 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo. Corners with an inward turn, rubbed and a little worn; cloth overall rubbed, and worn along the edges with two spots of fading to rear, and professional restoration at head and heel; a surface groove impressed along width of rear board; foxing troughout, heavy on same pages.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Trollope, Anthony. THE THREE CLERKS. A Novel. , 1860.

Price: US$395.00 + shipping

Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 6 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped red ribbed-morocco grain cloth with spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition of this early Trollope novel, which had first come out in late 1857 (three volumes, London post-dated 1858). This was his sixth novel, following the initial two "Irish" ones, LA VENDÉE set in France, and then THE WARDEN and BARCHESTER TOWERS. It was the success of these latter two that prompted Harper to begin publishing American editions beginning in 1858; this was the fourth Trollope title Harper published. Smith cites five binding variants (no known precedence); this copy is in red ribbed-morocco grain cloth, which is either Smith's binding "A -- dark reddish-brown" or "E -- moderate reddish-brown" (this copy simply looks "red" to us). Condition is very good-plus (quite minor wear at the extremities, a few string-indents on the rear cover, spine gilt less than bright); the original coffee-colored endpapers are intact, and the volume is tight. This is a tough title to find in any better condition. Smith 5 (pp 17-20). Provenance: flyleaf inscription from father to son in Hong Kong, "Feby 9th / 61"; penciled signature dated May 1987 of John [E.] Ruyle (1934-2008), the Berkeley bibliophile, writer and printer.

Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.