The Refugee in America

  • [iv], 294; [ii], 311; [iv], 302 pp., half-titles in each Volume. 3 vols. 8vo
  • London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1832
By Trollope, [Frances]
London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1832. First Edition. [iv], 294; [ii], 311; [iv], 302 pp., half-titles in each Volume. 3 vols. 8vo. Bound in original drab brown boards, uncut, title labels. Signed Dixon on upper cover of each binding, bookplate of Dixon Brown. Volume II missing its front cover. First Edition. [iv], 294; [ii], 311; [iv], 302 pp., half-titles in each Volume. 3 vols. 8vo. Mrs. Trollope's first novel, published the same year as her enormously popular and scathing first book "Domestic Manners of the Americans." She received a £400 advance from the publisher for 1250 copies whom she had considered leaving because they hadn't been generous enough with the royalties of later editions of Domestic Manners. Sadleir 3235; Wolff 6825; Heinemann, Mrs Trollope pp. 102-106

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