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Vintage, 1949-01-01. Paperback. Good. A good softcover copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean but previous owner's name is stamped throughout the book. Previous owner's name is also stamped on reverse side of front and back cover and on end papers.

Dodd, Mead & Company. Used - Good. Good condition. Later edition. 2 volumes in 1. (United States, social life, manners and customs, travel) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1949. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edited, with a history of Mrs. Trollopes' adventures in America, by Donald Smalley. lxxxiii, 454, xix.,biblio., appendices, VG with only light wear, previous owner's name and bookplate, in chipped and torn DJ. "...the book Mrs. Trollope wrote about her adventures and observations in Andrew Jackson's America enraged and delighted so many people that it made her famous. More than a century later its laughter, its acid, and its accuracy combine to make it a prime source book in the history of American morals and manners.".

New York:: Re-Printed for the Bookselelrs,, 1832.. First American, from the Fourth London edition.. publisher's cloth (rebacked in darker green cloth preserving most of the original spine), with printed paper label on spine.. Some foxing and age-toning to the text and plates; cloth worn and spotted. . 8vo,. 8 lithographed plates..

1969. TROLLOPE, [Frances] Mrs. Domestic Manners of the Americans. With an Introduction by James E. Mooney. Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1969. xx,328pp. Frontis., illus., plates, folding plates. Orig. cloth, publisher's slipcase. Fine in a lightly worn slipcase. On of 1950 numbered copies signed by introducer. HOWES T-357.

Whittaker, Treacher, & Co.. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Complete edition. Reading copy only. Hinges cracked. Several pages detached. Slightly dampstained. Bookplate inside. Writing inside. (US history, america, travel, social history)

Kiel: Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1835. First German edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 satirical plates. 16mo, [vi], 264pp., paper labels over imitation leather boards. First published in London in 2 vols with 24 plates, this is only vol. 3 of 3. in German. It covers New York state & Niagara. This edition contains a new Epilogue by the German Editor & translator, Dr. Hermann Franz. "It is extremely interesting and rewarding reading. Such incidents from American life as watermelon eating, revival meetings, and the disapppointing behavior of a servant girl are well told, and Mrs.Trollope's remarks are not entirely unfavorable -Hubach p.65." Her first book. {Howes T357; Sadleir 3218b; Clark 112; Buck 204; Streeter 845}. The lithographed illustrations were produced by Winkelmann & Sohne of Berlin. Quite rare and, oddly, the three volumes are rarely found together.

London [and] New York: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co [and] Reprinted for the Booksellers Fourth Edition, Complete in One Volume. Published the same year as the first edition. London [and] New York: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 9", 325pp, illustrated with 8 plates. Bound in brown linen cloth, backstirp missing, wear at the tips and along edges, fading to the cloth, name/date on title page, foxing on endpapers, mild toning along edges. Internally very good, paper bright, binding tight, all plates present. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co, 1832. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 2 vols. 300p; 303p. REBOUND. A set of two hardcover books that have been rebound in navy blue cloth. Foxing on and around the plates. Closed tear at the top of page 239-240 in volume I. Otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight in both volumes. An Englishwoman's mostly negative impressions of American manners and customs.

New York: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co, 1832. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Publisher's original cloth with paper spine label. Penciled owner's name, cloth of the spine split and chipped, spine label worn, a fair only copy, but scarce in boards.

1832. TROLLOPE, Mrs. [Frances]. Domestic Manners of the Americans. New York: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. 1st U.S. ed. 325pp. Frontis, seven plates. Later 3/4-red calf and contemporary marbled boards, raised spine bands, compartments gilt, brown morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Small amount of faint scattered foxing, else very good. HOWES T-357.

London [and] New York: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. [and] Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Tall octavo. 325pp. Inserted plates with tissue guards. Quarter cloth and paper covered boards with paper spine label. Penciled owner's name, old auction description on front blank, foxing on the plates, spine label worn, a few (erasable but interesting) pencil notes, a good or better copy. Scarce in boards.

London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co. Ave Maria Lane, 1832. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xi, [1], 336; v, [1], 271, [1] ads; half-titles not preserved, 24 lithograph plates; slightly later tan straight-grain morocco, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; joints restored, extremities worn; previous owner's' bookplates; a good copy, or better. Frances Trollope (1780-1863, mother of Anthony Trollope, the novelist) had spent four years in the United States, "travelled in nearly every part of it, associated with all classes, and unremittently exercised a keen faculty for observation. If [her book] fails to offer a completely authentic view of American manners, the reason is no want of candour or any invincible prejudice, but the tendency, equally visible in her novels, to dwell upon the more broadly humorous, and consequently the more vulgar, aspects of things" (DNB). The lithographs reflect this attitude and are particularly amusing. Four editions of Mrs. Trollope's… Read More

Whittaker, Treacher, & Co, 1832-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. First edition of Mrs. Trollope's first book is a humorously snobby look at our nation's people with amusing lithographic illustrations by Ducotes after drawings by Hervieu, all b&w with tissue guards. 2 Volumes. First edition. Rebound in wraps, foxing mostly on and around the illustrations. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011

New York: Whittaker, Treacher, 1832. hardcover. very good. Extra Illustrated by the insertion of 47 plates and portraits, mostly illustrated in black and white. 325 pages (some foxing, a handful of pages with large stains), 8vo, rebound in 3/4 brown Morocco over red marbled boards, ornately gilt stamped spine, binding clean and square. New York: Whittaker, Treacher, 1832. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Complete in one volume. "Reprinted for the booksellers... verbatim with the English edition" Bookplate on front attached endpaper.<br/><br/>