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JAMES CUMMINS bookseller anthony trollope 1 TROLLOPE, Anthony 2 TROLLOPE, Anthony The MacDermots of Ballycloran. London: The Kellys and the O’Kellys. London: Chapman Chapman & Hall, 1861 & Hall, [1859] iv, 364 pp., + 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear date [v]-viii, 394 pp. 8vo. Bound in full straight-grained brown January, 1861. Printed by J.S. Virtue, City Road, London. morocco, t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. Minor rubbing. Very 8vo. Publisher’s light brown decorated cloth, lettered scarce. Sadleir, Trollope 2. in black and red. Stained and worn, spine darkened, worming to covers and last few leaves of catalogue. The second edition of Trollope’s second novel, Sadleir, Trollope 1 (note); Tinker 2165. excessively rare in the first edition. The second edition of Trollope’s first novel, $750 [261404] which in its 1847 first edition is one of the great rarities of Victorian fiction. $750 [312545] 3 TROLLOPE, Anthony La Vendée. An Historical Romance. London: Henry Colburn, 1850 iv, 320; [iv], 330; [ii], 313, [1, ads] pp., complete with half-title in vol. II only, as issued; without 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue in vol. III bound in some copies. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s blind-stamped dark green ribbed cloth, spines titled in gilt. Minor wear at extremities, light staining to covers, spine gilt dulled, some endpapers cracked. Bernard Quaritch collation note on rear pastedown. In a custom green cloth clamshell box. Sadleir, Trollope 3; Tinker 2168. Provenance: Henry G. Burke, noted collector from Baltimore (bookplate). Trollope’s Third Novel in Cloth First edition, first issue, in original cloth of Trollope’s third novel. The first issue is distinguished by the absence of any mention of Trollope’s previous works on the title-page. Sadleir notes bindings of both half cloth and boards and full cloth, as here, with no priority given. Extremely scarce in the original cloth; only 500 copies were printed of this tale set of the Royalist Vandean uprising following the execution of Louis XVI. Trollope, who had no direct knowledge of the Vendée region, relied on Walter Scott’s translation of The Memoires of the Marquise de la Rochejaquelin. The novel sold poorly and a portion of the original print run was remaindered and bound in one volume. La Vendée was the last of Trollope’s early failures, following his two Irish-themed novels, before he would find his muse in provincial England. sold [312530] 2 | James Cummins bookseller 4 TROLLOPE, Anthony The Warden. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 iv, 336, 24 (ads dated September 1854) pp. 8vo. Publisher’s red-brown horizontally grained cloth (Sadleir’s first binding), spine titled in gilt, dark red endpapers, pastedowns printed in black with ads (Sadleir variety B, no priority), Westleys binder’s ticket on rear pastedown. Small stain to spine, endpapers cracked, else a near fine copy. In a custom cloth clamshell box. Sadleir, Trollope 4; Wolff 6798; Tinker 2170. “Presented by the Publishers” A beautiful copy in publisher’s cloth of the first Barsetshire novel and the first of Trollope’s novels to be set in England, following his three early works set in Ireland and France. It sold poorly but was well-reviewed and set the stage for some of his greatest artistic triumphs in the Barsetshire series. “Trollope said that this time he ‘could discover that people around me knew that I had written a book’ (Autobiography, 98)” (ODNB). This copy with a circular embossed stamp on the title-page, “Presented by the Publishers.” $4,000 [312538] anthony trollope| 3 5 TROLLOPE, Anthony Barchester Towers. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857 viii, 305, [3], 24 (ads, dated October 1860); iv, 299, [1]; iv, 321, [1], 2 (ads) pp., half-title in vol. I only, as issued. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s light-brown cloth (Sadleir’s second binding), covers stamped in blind, spines titled in gilt, brown endpapers with printed advertisements for Whiteside’s Italy, Tennent’s Ceylon, and Mrs. Jameson’s Works, bound by Westleys & Co, London (ticket to rear pastedown, vol. I). Light wear and discoloration to cloth, circulating library labels removed from front covers, some small restoration to spine ends, a few gatherings proud. In a custom blue morocco clamshell case. Sadleir, Trollope 5; Sadleir 3200; Wolff 6766; Tinker 2172. Provenance: Michael Sadleir (bookplate); Morris Parrish (bookplate); with early ownership signature on front pastedowns and one other bookplate (Yardley). Sadleir-Parrish Copy First edition in publisher’s cloth of a novel almost always found rebound or heavily restored, with remarkable provenance from the collections of Trollope bibliographer Michael Sadleir and collector Morris Parrish. Sadleir comments on the novel’s rarity in cloth: “Barchester Towers had the same printing number and publisher as The Warden. But it was a three-volume books, sold at 31. 6d., and reached a public larger than that of the coteries. In consequence it was more frequently borrowed from the libraries and less frequently bought outright; also it was more thoroughly and destructively read.” $10,000 [312531] 4 | James Cummins bookseller 6 TROLLOPE, Anthony 7 TROLLOPE, Anthony The Three Clerks. London: Richard Bentley, Doctor Thorne. London: Chapman & Hall, 1858 1858 iv, 305, [1]; iv, 323, [1]; iv, 340 pp., vol. I lacking final imprint iv, 340; iv, 322, [2, blank]; iv, 334, [2, blank] pp., no half- leaf, no half-titles as issued, bound without ads in vol. titles, as issued. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s gray-purple I. 3 vols. 8vo. Near contemporary three quarter blue cloth (Sadleir’s third binding), printed spine labels, plain morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, t.e.g. Near fine, endpapers. Recased, spine labels chipped with substantial slight rubbing to extremities and occasional spotting to loss, a few leaves proud or loose, sporadic staining. text. In a custom green morocco-backed slipcase and Housed individually in custom calf-backed felt-lined chemises. Sadleir, Trollope 7; Wolff 6772; Tinker 2176. clamshell boxes. Sadleir, Trollope 6; Wolff 6796; Tinker Provenance: Sir Andrew Noble (bookplate). 2174. Provenance: E. & M. Purnell (1862 ownership First edition of the third Barsestshire novel, one inscriptions on front free endpapers); Oliver Brett (bookplate). of only 750 copies printed. First edition in original cloth and printed spine $5,000 [312533] labels, Sadleir’s third binding of which he noted only one copy (“may have been a hybrid [i.e. of the first and second bindings]”). The Three Clerks is Trollope’s sixth novel and considered his most autobiographical. $2,500 [312532] anthony trollope| 5 8 TROLLOPE, Anthony Doctor Thorne. London: Chapman & Hall, 1858 iv, 305, [3]; iv, 323, [1]; iv, 340 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s blind-stamped grayish-purple cloth, spines titled in gilt. Near fine, slightest wear to spine ends. Contemporary gift inscriptions to front pastedowns. Sadleir, Trollope 7 (note); Wolff 6772a. Pristine copy in cloth of the second edition of the scarcest Barsetshire novel, one of only 250 copies. Almost entirely reset, it differs considerably from the first edition. “What a second edition! The printer’s reader simply went at the text with a scalpel. Practically every signature in the three volumes was reset, and the total number of changes is upwards of 500” (Carroll Wilson, quoted in Sadleir). $5,000 [312534] 9 TROLLOPE, Anthony The Bertrams. London: Chapman & Hall, 1859 iv, 335, [1]; iv, 344; iv, 331, [1] pp. Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross. 3 vols. 8vo. Three-quarter tan morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt with small onlays of dark brown morocco, a.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. Light rubbing to covers, some toning and spotting to text. In cloth open-faced slipcase. H.C. Drayton booplate and one other. Sadleir, Trollope 8; Tinker 2178. First edition of this early Trollope effort; much of the novel’s action takes place in Jerusalem and the Holy Land. $1,500 [312539] 6 | James Cummins bookseller 10 TROLLOPE, Anthony 11 TROLLOPE, Anthony The West Indies and the Spanish Main. New Castle Richmond. London: Chapman & Hall, York: Harper & Brothers, 1860 1860 iv, [5]-385, [1], 6 (ads), [4, ads] pp. 8vo. Publisher’s dark vi, 303, [1]; vi (misnumbered ‘iv’), 300; vi, 289, [1], 32 green blind-stamped cloth, spine titled in gilt. Light (ads, dated May 1860) pp., with half-titles. 3 vols. 8vo. shelfwear, small repairs to spine ends, occasional light Publisher’s gray-purple blind-stamped cloth, spines foxing. Sadleir, Trollope 9; Smith 3. title in gilt (second issue binding with gilt rule under “Trollope”). Cloth frayed at extremities, some soiling to First American edition in publisher’s cloth text, a few gatherings proud. Sadleir, Trollope 10; Wolff of the first of Trollope’s travel books, with 6770. Provenance: Mudie’s Library, Machester (labels chapters on Jamaica, Cuba, Barbados, Central to front covers); Marsden Mechanic’s Institution (labels America and Bermuda. Issued without the map to front pastedowns); Hugh Walpole (red morocco frontispiece found in the first English edition of Brackenburn label). 1859 and with the earliest state of the ads at rear First edition, second issue, with the numerous listing A History of Greece. misprints noted by Sadleir, publisher’s catalogue $250 [312544] dated May 1860, and the second issue binding variant. A remarkable survival in cloth given its double ex-library past. From the collection of Hugh Walpole, who in 1929 wrote a book on Trollope’s writings. $2,000 [312541] anthony trollope| 7 12 TROLLOPE, Anthony Castle Richmond. London: Chapman and Hall, 1860 vi, 303, [1]; vi (misnumbered ‘iv’), 300; vi, 289, [1] pp., with half-titles. Bound without publisher’s ads at rear of vol. III. 3 vols. 8vo. Early 20th century blue morocco-backed cloth; spine gilt.