Very rare and desirable little piece of quirkiana. The Odd Trump is a fascinating piece of American Victorian multi-trope fiction. In it, the two main characters, Trump and Clinton, are friends whose relationship deteriorates as they compete for the hand of the same woman.
And the man, "Trump" in the novel is quite a guy. As Paul Collins of The New Yorker [See Here] said:
I think I really began to like this Trump fellow when he tore his coat off, dived into a raging river, and saved a drowning woman after she’d been flung from a train wreck. “Save me!” she’d have cried, if only she’d been conscious. “Save me, Trump!” Oh, that Trump. Wrestling vicious mastiffs to the ground; smoothly confronting a con man on the Paris-to-Calais train with a pistol in his hand; hunting ghosts at midnight in a haunted English mansion. Rather less money on him than he’d have you believe, true, but a man of cool, levelheaded action all the same. What a character!
Rare on the market with no other copies of this edition available at the time of listing and no examples traced in the auction records.
Coulson, George J. A. The Odd Trump. New York. E. J. Hale & Son, Publishers. 1876. 326pp.
A good + copy, bound in cloth with a minor dampstain to the foredge. Text is generally solid, but a bit tender after the title page. Text is generally bright.
