Search Results: Authors starting with T from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing with some light pushing to the spine ends and leading board corners and some quite minor spotting to the joints in a Very Good or better dust jacket with modest wear and tear as well as clipping to the leading flap corners: Tarkington's tale of Rumbin, an art dealer with high goals and a desire to relocate his business to uptown New York.

[No Place Stated]: John Tavenor-Perry, [No Date Stated]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $550. NOW $175. The ORIGINAL DRAWINGS made by John Tavenor-Perry for use in his Article titled "Piscinas" appearing at pages 227-244 in the February 1908 issue of the magazine Christian Art. This separate book contains all 20 Original Illustrations by Tavenor-Perry used in the Article. The illustrations are drawn on boards (some of which may contain notes on how to size the various drawings of publication) and are housed together in paper covered boards. The spine and labels thereto show wear and the boards show some soiling/staining, as well as some bubbling to the board cloth, as shown in the images provided with this listing, and the Figures are holding decently well in the book. A RARE group of twenty (20) ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS by the renowned architect and writer on architectural history J. TAVENOR-PERRY published in the above-referenced Article… Read More

[No Place Stated]: John Tavenor-Perry, [No Date Stated]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $450. NOW $125. The ORIGINAL DRAWINGS made by John Tavenor-Perry for use in his Article titled "Episcopal Chairs" appearing at pages 256-261 in the September 1908 issue of the magazine Christian Art. This separate book contains all 11 Original Illustrations by Tavenor-Perry used in the Article. Figure VIII in the Article appears as Figure X and also as Figure VIII in the book, Figure IX in the Article appears as Figure VII in the book, Figure X in the Article appears as Figure XI in the Book, and Figure XI in the Article appears as Figure IX in the book. The illustrations are drawn on boards (some of which may contain notes on how to size the various drawings of publication) and are housed together in paper covered boards. The spine and labels thereto show wear and the boards show some soiling/staining as shown in the images provided with this listing,… Read More

Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $165. NOW $65. A Very Good copy of The Popular Edition of Thayer's Biography of John Hay in a Very Good dust jacket., and quite uncommon as such. The book shows some moderate rubbing and wear as well as some darkening to the spine lettering and the dust jacket shows moderate general wear and some loss. Born in 1838, Jay spent about half of a Century serving in Government. He served as private secretary and general to Abraham Lincoln and later became a Diplomat, over time holding several Posts. He served as the US Secretary of State under both President William McKinley (serving as McKinley's Ambassador to Great Britain) and also served President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a noted Biographer of Abraham Lincoln and also wrote Literature and Poetry. Hay took part in the Paris peace negotiations to end the Spanish-American War (1898) and took a noted role in promoting the US decision to… Read More

Boston: Crocker, S. R., 1880. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $225. NOW $125. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing of this Literary magazine, being Volume XI, number 16 published in Boston, Massachusetts in the Publisher's original stitched wrappers (showing some signs of use and a spilt to the bottom portion of the spine fold). This issue contains a number of items of interest, including a review of Anthony Trollope's "The Duke's Children" published in Harper's Franklin Square Library (Number 126), a RARE AND EPHEMERAL First Edition published in wrappers AS IS THIS ISSUE OF THE LITERARY WORLD. RARE INDEED.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue cloth with the spine and the front board both lettered and decorated in gilt [such gilt being brighter and fuller than we usually see] and the closed page block's top edge stained in blue and here presented without the dust jacket.

New York: The Grolier Club, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $225. NOW $125. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (some age toning to the board extremities as usual, but a nicer copy than we usually see), being one of only 750 copies issued and rather uncommon to the market. "Trollope's America" by Willard Thorp was delivered at The Grolier Club on October 18, 1949, and covers Trollope's five visits to the United States and his book about that country ("North America"). "The Lawyers of Anthony Trollope" by Henry S. Drinker was delivered at The Grolier Club on November 15, 1949 and deals with Trollope's changing attitudes about lawyers as revealed in his writing. This copy comes the RARE ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS for the book (some toning, a few light bend lines, a horizontal fold to the center -- presumably for mailing, COMPLETE WITH THE EVEN RARER ORDER FORM loosely laid in, which, in our experience is virtually impossible to find. In over 40 years of… Read More

London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, with some pushing at the spine ends, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY H. M. TOMLINSON on the front free endpaper as follows: "To Helen Talland // H. m. Tomlinson." [underscored by a flourish]; a travel book of essays, being the sixth book by this British anti-war writer, journalist, essayist and traveler. Tomlinson's reporting showed the horror of World War I and, in the present work he wrote about things that can provide comfort and consolation, as well as wonder, in the postwar world.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Undated [1866]. First Edition, later impression. Wrappers. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $4,250. NOW $1,850. A RARE SURVIVING copy of this VARIANT, LATER, BUT EARLY, IMPRESSION, OF THE RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, in the Publisher's original wrappers housing the FIRST EDITION STATE (perhaps, and we think likely, first printing) OF THE TEXT LEAVES of this Anthony Trollope novel first published in the United States on May 6, 1862 and not published in the UK until November, 1870, making this American Edition the TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THIS TROLLOPE NOVEL. The tale centers on a Partnership in a haberdashery amoung Brown (a retired Butter dealer), Jones (Brown's son-in-law), and Robinson (a strong advocate of advertising and an aspirant to the hand of Brown's youngest daughter, Maryanne). Due to Brown's timidity, Jones's embezzlement, and Robinson's extravagance, the Firm went bankrupt. This wrappered copy has been bound in brown half-cloth and marbled… Read More

London: Printed and Published by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, (for the employment of Women). 1861., 1861, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. A Very Good + copy of "The Victoria Regia" printed and published by Emily Faithfull and Co.'s Victoria Press, in the Publisher's original green cloth with the front board decorated in gilt and the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED BY EMILY FAITHFULL on the recto of a small piece of headed stationary bearing the address of "52, BRYANSTON STREET. // HYDE PARK. W." The closed page block's edges are also in gilt. The volume shows general wear with some rubbing through (as shown in the images). The page block gilt is a bit dulled by age and the binding's gilt remains in the best condition of any copy we ever have seen. Within, the leaves are in nice condition and show scattered foxing, and the volume is partially over-opened in one place as shown in one of the images provided. The… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1889 [first published by Chapman and Hall in 1878]. Later Edition(s) but first edition of this set. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good set of the 1889 issue / printing of Anthony Trollope's famed group of novels known as "The Barsetshire Chronicles" published in 1889 [with their respective years of initial individual first publication here set forth in parenthetically -- earlier issue of this set was published in 1879], consisting of The Warden (1855), Barchester Towers (1857), Doctor Thorne (1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864), and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)... // Per Sadlier: "The history of the edition is not without interest. Trollope himself was very anxious that his Barsetshire novels should be brought together in a uniform series. Originally the venture was to comprise only six volumes, for he did not himself regard The Small House at Allington as one of the Barsetshire set; but he consented to its inclusion at the urgent… Read More

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. Hardcover. Very good +. Very Good + copy of the First edition, First Issue, bound from the original parts (without the original wrappers and advertisements found in the original wrappered Parts); with the Publisher's rights printed on the verso of both title pages (omitted from verso of title page in vol. 2 for the book form edition) with the plate facing p. 297 of Volume with the semicolon present after "Hoggle-Stockians" (missing in the bound edition), and the plate facing p. 370 spelling "Consent" with a capital "C". On Page 157 of Volume I the final "D" of the running headline is perfect (it appears broken in the second edition), and in Volume 2, p. 298 line 21, third word is "Crawley" (which was changed to "Toogood" in the second edition). The leaves have been rebound in 3/4 blue leather with coordinated blue cloth, the closed page blocks, the pastedowns, and the facing side of each free endpaper of each Volume is marbled as well. Each volume's binding… Read More

Oxford [presumably]: [No Publisher Stated], [No Date Stated]. First Edition, First Printing. [no binding issued]. Very good +. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $145. NOW $75. A Very Good example of the Original Prospectus for the Shakespeare Head Edition of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Novels (which Edition was coupled with Trollope's Autobiography) with the text for the Prospectus being written by Trollope's primary bibliographer, Michael Sadleir. Composed of a large sheet of paper folded to make four pages, the Prospectus is in Very Good + condition, showing some light toning as well as two unnecessary folds, one horizontal and one vertical (presumably for mailing), and the stamp of Henry Young & Sons Ltd., Booksellers to the front page's lower margin. In our over forty years of diligent searching for Trollope scarcities and rarities, this is the only copy of this Prospectus that we ever have seen. QUITE SCARCE TO RARE.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good copy of the First edition, First Issue, bound from the original Parts WITH THE WRAPPERS FOR EACH PART BOUND IN TO THE REAR OF EACH VOLUME WITH A MULTITUDE OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR EACH PART bound between their respective wrappers (excluding the advertisements for Part XXVI for which no seperate advertisements are included); with the Publisher's rights printed on the verso of both title pages (omitted from verso of title page in vol. 2 for the book form edition) with the plate facing p. 297 of Volume II with the semicolon present after "HoggleStockians" (missing in the bound edition), and the plate facing p. 371 spelling "Consent" with a capital "C". On Page 157 of Volume I the final "D" of the running headline is perfect (it appears broken in the second edition), and in Volume 2, p. 298 line 21, third word is "Crawley" (which was changed to "Toogood" in the second edition). The leaves and wrappers… Read More

London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good copy of Good Words for the year 1877 containing works by Anthony Trollope including the first appearance of his "Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices" with four Illustrations by Frank Hill (of which only one was later republished), and "The Young Women at the London Telegraph Office" [unillustrated]. The volume has been rebound in three-quarters black leather and marbled boards. The spine is line, lettered, and dated in gilt. Good Words was a monthly magazine "Good Words" was a 19th-century monthly periodical established in the United Kingdom in 1860 by the Scottish publisher Alexander Strahan directed at evangelicals and nonconformists, particularly of the lower middle classes. The periodical included both overtly religious material and both fiction and non-fiction articles on general subjects, including science, with the purpose that devout Christians should be able to read it on Sundays without sin. Its first editor was… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers,, 1866. True First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $365. NOW $100. A Very Good copy of the first American Edition, first printing in The Publisher's green boards. While dated 1866, Harpers published the novel simultaneously in both hardcover and in original wrappers on February 8, 1867. Both formats constitute the First American Edition (with the wrappered edition being so scarce that we have encountered only one copy of it the last four decades), and being, in fact, the TRUE FIRST EDITION as the first English Edition was not published until April 20, 1867. (see Smith). At the time of this Harper publication, the novel was still being published in serialization both in Littell's Living Age [March 3, 1866 through March 2, 1867] as well as in the Galaxy [May 1, 1866 through March 1, 1867], using the serialization appearing in England in the Cornhill Magazine. Both American publishing houses objected to Harper's publication of the full… Read More

London, 1878. Cardboard covers. Near fine. A Near Fine or better copy of "Kafir Land" written by Anthony Trollope and set in South Africa, apparrently excerpted from Volume 23 of the Fortnightly Review, a monthly periodical of Literature founded by Trollope with others in 1865. Trollope was, as best we cam determine, was the only eminent Victorian to visit all of England's Colonies existing when he was alive.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $125. NOW $35. An about Very Good copy of the first American edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original cloth showing some general wear, a prior owner's name and date to the front free endpaper, and a paper remnant affixed to the title page not affecting any lettering.

London: Isbister and Company, 1882. First Edition. Original cloth. Very good +. A Very Good + copy of Good Words for 1882 in the publisher's original green cloth with some modest wear to the front joint and to the binding's edges, the rear hinge is cracked open. The volume contains the FIRST APPEARANCE OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S NOVEL "KEPT IN THE DARK". (The tale contains an illustration by Millais.) Good Words was a monthly magazine first published in 1860 by Alexander Strahan and edited by Norman Macleod. Upon his death, his brother Donald Macleod became the periodical's Editor, and Isbister eventually took over Strahan's publishing enterprises. The magazine was directed at evangelical Protestant Christians as well as those known as "nonconformists" [Protestants who did not conform to the governance and usages of the established church (the Church of England) and who were consequently restricted from many spheres of public life such as public office, civil service careers, and degrees at… Read More

London: Strahan and Company, 1869. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $425. NOW $100. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing, in book form bound in three-quarters brown leather and marbled boards, and with the leather having inner borders decorated with double gilt lines, the spines being lettered and decorated in gilt with the title, author name, volume numbers being on green leather blocks, and the top edge of each volume's close page block in gilt as well. The leather shows some modest rubbing at the edges and Volume I is bound without a half-title. The work is illustrated with sixty-four (64) illustrations by Marcus Stone (thirty-two being full plates printed separately and thirty-two being vignettes printed with the text and incorporating the initial letters to the thirty-two chapters they head. [In Volume I, the List of Illustrations calls for the Plate titled "The Full Mood at St. Diddulphs" at page 256 but it is… Read More