Literature from Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)

London: Virtue & Co, 1868. First. Hardcover. Very Good. British Sports and Pastimes is a comprehensive account of the various sports and pastimes that were popular in Victorian Britain.  Trollope covers a wide range of topics, cricket, horse racing, hunting, fishing. rowing, yachting and Alpine sports.  He provides historical background and context for each activity, as well as… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. First. Hardcover-2 vols. Very Good. From Wikipedia: An Eye for an Eye is a novel by Anthony Trollope written between 13 September and 10 October 1870, but held back from publication until August 1878 when serialization began in the Whitehall Review. Publication in the form of a two volume novel was timed to… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1927. First. Softcover. Fair. The Bookman was a monthly magazine published in London from 1891 until 1934 by Hodder & Stoughton.  It was a catalogue of the current publications that also contained reviews, advertising and illustrations.  William Robertson Nicoll, Arthur St. John Adcock and Hugh Ross Williamson were editors. Contributors included G. K. Chesterton,… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1953. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. George Sutherland Fraser (1915 - 1980) was a Scottish poet, literary critic and academic. This is a volume apparently published only in Japan.  It is near fine in yellow cloth with blue titles on the spine and a red leaf embossed on the front cover.  Minor soiling and… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson of London, 1968. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The poet's first book. Near fine in black cloth with just bumping at the corners.  No other marks or damage.  The unclipped DJ has just slight shelf wear.  Inscribed by the author on the ffep. CH.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. From Wikipedia: Frances Milton Trollope, also known as Fanny Trollope (1779 - 1863), was an English novelist who wrote as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope. Her book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), observations from a trip to the United States, is the best known. … Read more about this item

Toronto: Belford Brothers, 1877. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The American Senator, although not one of Trollope's better-known works, is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. In its anti-heroine, Arabella Trefoil, it presents a scathing but ultimately sympathetic portrayal of a woman who has abandoned virtually all… Read more about this item

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. First US. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher: "An "exhilarating" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "ingenious" (Hilary Mantel) story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. From the Publisher: "Joanna Trollope's much-anticipated contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and is already one of the most talked about books of the year. Two sisters could hardly be more different. Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values discretion above all.… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 1936. First UK. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Condition. Dawn Powell (1896 - 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays.… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 1943. First UK. Hardcover. Very Good. Dawn Powell (1896 - 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer.  Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone."  Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. Standard collected edition. Hardcover. Good to Near Fine. Thomas Carlyle (1795 -1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Virtually all of his important work was published between the 1820's and… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1940. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Strangers and Brothers is the first volume of what became C.P. Snows 11 novel series of the same name.  Published in the early days of WWII, it is by far the scarcest volume in the series, and dust jackets are extremely scarce.  Paper was in short supply during… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1949. First. Hardcover. Near fine/Good minus. The third novel in C. P. Snow's monumental Strangers and Brothers series, but first in the series' narrative chronology.  Near fine in orange cloth with gilt titles on the spine.  The gilt has some fading and slight bumping at the corners, but otherwise no marks or damage.  The… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1947. First. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. The second novel published in C. P. Snow's monumental Strangers and Brothers 11 novel series.  Published just after WWII, dust jackets are uncommon, since the jacket paper quality was not particularly good. This copy is very good in blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine.  Slight… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. !866 "remainder edition" bound from leftover pages from the 1862 1st edition. Hardcover. Fair. Orley Farm was first published by Chapman and Hall in 1862, but in 1866 a "remainder edition" was published, using leftover printer's sheets from the original print run, but adding new title pages.  Most copies of the 1866 edition… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1859. First European copyright edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Barchester Towers is generally considered Anthony Trollope's most important novel, and the work that established him as one of Britain's most important authors of the Victorian era.  Trollope was a champion of copyright protection, which was just beginning to be legally implemented, country by country.  In order to… Read more about this item

New York: Putnam, Harcourt. All Firsts. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 1951) is a Spanish novelist and journalist.  He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels, which have been translated into multiple languages. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.  His novels are usually centered on one strongly defined… Read more about this item

Chicago: ABAA, 1995. First. Softcover. Fine. An interesting little booklet of Larry McMurtry's comments on his long life, mixing his successful writing career with his involvement in the the bookselling world.  It records the address he gave at the Annual Meeting of the ABAA in Chicago in 1995.   Issued in a limited edition of 750. This copy… Read more about this item

Madrid: En la Oficina de la Viuda de Manuel Fernandez, 1772. 1772. Good +. La Galatea was Cervantes' first book, published in 1585. Under the guise of pastoral characters, it is an examination of love and contains many allusions to contemporary literary figures. It enjoyed modest success, but a promised sequel was never published. This 1772 edition is… Read more about this item