QUERY: The Trollope Society

[james devlin <jdevlin@gramercy.ios.com>]

I was told that you folk would be able to point me in the right direction
on this...

My question is about the original American version of the Trollope Society
(not the current one), founded by A. Edward Newton to give the public
something better than "cheap and nasty reprints."

I have the Random House THE AMERICAN SENATOR (1940), of which 310 were
specially printed for the Trollope Society. In a preface, Newton says:

"Unfortunately, ill-health, from which there is no hope of recovery [colon
cancer, I'm told -JD], compels me to abandon my scheme here and now.
Several novels have been published for the Trollope Society and Random
House, Inc are preparing for publication THE AMERICAN SENATOR..."

The book long ago lost its dust jacket. Can someone tell me what else the
Trollope Society published in the 1930s? (Or point me where I might find
out?) Were all their editions co-published? I have several Trollopes from
the current incarnation of the Society, and the lovely Oxford sets of the
Barset and Palliser novels.

Thanks in advance for any assistance; off-list replies are welcome, if
that's better.

Jim Devlin