VAILIMA LETTERS in unbound signatures
1895139221895. 1/100 in unbound signatures Being Correspondence addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin. November 1890 - October 1894. In Two Volumes. Chicago: Stone & Kimball 1895. Original folded unbound signatures. First Edition Large Paper Issue consisting of 100 numbered copies on John Dickinson & Co. paper -- this copy unnumbered and in fact still in its unbound signatures. VAILIMA LETTERS was published in Chicago in late October 1895 about a week before the London edition in the year following Stevenson's death; "Vailima" "five rivers" was the name Stevenson gave to the home he and his family made for themselves in Samoa. This is a remarkable never-issued copy a complete set of the folded sheets which never went to the binder -- where the two volumes would have been bound in grey paper-covered boards and where each volume would have had a frontispiece inserted here absent. Condition is just about fine one small damp-mark at the top edge of the first couplet of Vol I. Beinecke Yale 610; Princeton 60A. Housed in a cloth slipcase with leather labels with two inner chemises. unknown books
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