TROLLOPE ANTHONY Harry Heathcote of Gangoil A Tale of Austra

Sale 2332 - Lot 256

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TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil. A Tale of Australian Bush-Life. 2 full page illustrations with tissue guard at front. Printed in double columns. 4 pages at front and 2 pages at end of publisher's advertisements. 8vo, original printed wrappers, small portion of upper outer corner of front wrapper torn with slight loss, some splits and chips along backstrip extremities, light soiling, small area of foxing on front wrapper that also shows one tiny puncture hole; few pages lightly foxed at margins, else remarkably clean. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874

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first edition, first issue of one of the great trollope rarities. Number 407 in Harper's Library of Select Novels. This edition precedes the English edition by nine months. Extremely scarce on the market, not appearing for decades. Best evidence indicates the last copy in wrappers selling at auction in 1970. Recorded, but not seen, by Sadleir (43).