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1887136601887. London: Chatto and Windus 1887. Original very dark blue cloth beveled. First Edition of these "memories of childhood and youth portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle." The edition is believed to have consisted of 2000 copies. A near-fine copy cloth worn at the top of the front joint. Beinecke 454; Princeton 36. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18876769London Chatto and Windus 1887. 1887. First edition. Thick small 8vo. Original gilt stamped dark blue cloth t.e.g. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Beinecke 454. F. Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1887. hardcover books
1887630891887. STEVENSON Robert Louis. THE MERRY MEN and Other Tales and Fables. London: Chatto & Windus 1887. First edition. 8vo. blue decorative cloth. As is: ex-library no external marks. Soil slight bumps to boards; darkened with wear to the extremes at the spine. Hinges starting binding shaken; dust soil to top-edge. unknown books
188414294London: Chatto and Windus 1884. 'New edition'. Full red morocco binding with elaborate gilt decorated spine. AEG. Marbled eps. Gilt dentelles. VG sun oxidized section to boards. 328 pp adverts at rear. 8vo. <br/><br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover books
19176774Boston Bibliophile Society 1917. 1917. Small 4to. Introduction and notes by George S. Hellman. 1/2 tan cloth over gray boards uncut. Very good. 27 pages. One of 50 copies printed for Edmund Brooks. With a presentation from him on his engraved calling card: "With the kind regards of Edmund Brooks." Beinecke 707. Hardcover. Very Good. [Boston, Bibliophile Society, 1917]. hardcover books
19076775London Chatto & Windus 1907. 1907. First edition thus "Fine Paper Edition". Small 8vo. Title page in red and black. 205 pages. Original gilt stamped half orange vellum over mauve cloth by Hatchards gilt stamped black morocco spine label marbled endpapers t.e.g. Very good. Includes: Underwoods Ballads Songs of Travel. Bookplate of Gwenllian Northbourne. 1st Edition. Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1907. hardcover books
1913D17031London: Chatto & Windus 1913. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Copy 109 of 500 printed. Limp vellum green cloth ties of varying lengths. A very nice copy of a handsome book printed on hand-made paper. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
19216820Boston: The Bibliophile Society 1921 First edition of these poems the earliest of which is dated 1866. One of 450 copies printed for members of the Bibliophile Society. Introduction and Notes by George S. Hellman and William P. Trent. 142pp. Frontispiece portrait nine facsimiles. Three-quarter vellum over rust cloth sides. A hint of foxing to extreme fore-edge of text block but a fine copy in very good double slipcase. The facsimiles are of Stevenson's manuscripts. Includes an index of titles and first lines. The Bibliophile Society hardcover books
1917WRCLIT31275Minneapolis: Privately Printed for Edmund D. Brooks 1917. Small quarto. Linen and boards. Light dust soiling to boards otherwise near fine. First separate edition. One of approximately fifty copies printed. A separately gotten up printing of the poems from the Bibliophile Society of POEMS.HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED prepared for Brooks who owned the corresponding manuscripts. Scarce. BEINECKE 707. Privately Printed for Edmund D. Brooks hardcover books
1895WRCLIT68068Chicago: Stone and Kimball 1895. Green cloth ruled in gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed. Spine a shade darkened and a bit rubbed at tips; bookplate scar and a few spots on front pastedown and endsheet front inner hinge cracking; just a good copy. First separate edition and first U.S. edition in the same year in the Edinburgh Edition and revised considerably from the text suppressed ca. 1880. Inscribed on the verso of the title by Ingalls Kimball: "This is of the first edition Stone & Kimball." BEINECKE 66. PRIDEAUX 41. KRAMER 36. Stone and Kimball hardcover books
19236391San Francisco: John Howell 1923 First edition. Number 72 of 250 copies printed on handmade paper. Introduction by Katharine D. Osbourne. Thin quarto. Pp. 4 8 1. Two initials in blue. Gray-blue boards tan cloth spine white paper label. Upper rear corner ever so slightly jammed lower edge of rear free endpaper with small half inch section torn away. Overall a fine copy of a fragile book. An address by Stevenson to the Speculative Society of Edinburgh in March 1873. The colophon states the typography was designed by Edwin Grabhorn and printed by The Kennedy-ten Bosch Company under the direction of Haywood H. Hunt. A note in the Grabhorn bibliography p.34 states that the colophon statement was an error and that the Press had nothing to do with the publication. John Howell hardcover books
191663042New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1916. First edition with the Wyeth illustrations. Small 4to. x 3289 pp. Color plates color illustrated title page illustrated endpapers. Owner's name on half-title but a good solid copy. Original black cloth edges rubbed gilt spine title color illustrated paper onlay on upper cover. 9574. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1919D16158Pennsylvania: Oak Knoll 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Privately printed and distributed this copy signed and inscribed in 1926 to collector Leonard Kebler from publisher A. Edward Newton. Original wrappers housed in a morocco chemise and slipcase. A facsimile of the manuscript Stevenson's earliest known literary creation in his mother's hand as recited to her by her 6 year old son who would later pen some of the most enduring works of the 19th century. <br/><br/> Oak Knoll paperback books
1964241493New York: Limited Editions Club 1964. Limited. hardcover. fine. Lynd Ward. Many color lithographs by Lynd Ward. 303pp. Tall 8vo full plaid cloth gilt leather label on spine board slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1965. Fine.<br/><br/> One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books
1887WRCLIT58616London: Chatto & Windus 1887. Early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. gilt 'RLS' device on both boards original cloth binding bound in rear. Spine extremities a bit worn with narrow cracks to upper portions of joints bound without terminal catalogue otherwise very good. First edition in book form the stories collected from periodical appearances. The first edition included three printings totaling 3000 copies. PRIDEAUX 20. BEINECKE 411. BLEILER SUPERNATURAL 1533. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
188795797London: Chatto & Windus 1887. Small octavo pp. 1-2 i-v vi-vii viii-ix x-xii xiii xiv-xv xvi-xviii 1-2 3-137 138 139: printer's imprint 140: blank note: first leaf is a blank 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "July 1887" inserted at rear original slate blue cloth front and rear panels ruled in blind spine panel stamped in gold edges untrimmed dark brown coated endpapers. First edition. "Requiem" one of Steven's best-known poems was first printed in this volume. Beinecke 445. Small label removed from front cover several small areas of discoloration to paste-downs where labels were removed and surface re-colored overall still a very good copy with bright spine stamping. #95797 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1895WRCLIT71175London: Methuen 1895. Gilt polished buckram t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portraits. Extremities a bit rubbed endsheets show usual slight offsetting small snag in rear inner hinge otherwise very good. First British edition edited with notes and introduction by Sidney Colvin. Preceded by the more common Chicago edition from Stone & Kimball. With publisher's 32pp. terminal catalogue dated Sept. 1895. BEINECKE 613. PRIDEAUX 42. Methuen hardcover books
1921WOWL1Boston: The Bibliophile Society 1921. One of 450 copies. This is a first edition of Stevenson's earliest known story the MS of which was in the Rosenbach library. The parchment spine and tips are very clean with only a touch of the green of the box. The pages are mostly unopened. The outer slipcase has two small splits at opening and one bump. The inner slipcase has small split of cloth at foot of spine. It is a commendable copy. Limited. Parchment Backed Boards. Very Good/Slipcase Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Privately Printed. The Bibliophile Society Hardcover books
1889514871889. STEVENSON Robert Louis and OSBOURNE Lloyd. THE WRONG BOX. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1889. First American edition. Olive green cloth 2 paper labels. Extremes slightly worn. A very good copy. Gerstley 42A. unknown books
19112260242Charles Scribner's Sons 1911. Later Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Spines a bit faded edges lightly rubbed - fore-edge corners slightly exposed. 1911 Half-Leather. 1911 edition of the collection first published in 1895 in two volumes. This four new volume edition features 150 additional letters. Contemporary custom half-leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers top edge gilt. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
189055465London: Chatto & Windus 1890. First edition on of 100 large paper copies signed by R&R.Clarke the printer. 4to pp. 137. Original cream buckram uncut on watermarked laid paper. Cover soiled and stained endpapers browned a VG untrimmed copy. See Prideaux 32 Beinecke 535. Chatto & Windus unknown books
189730033NY: Scribner's 1897. First Edition. 8vo pp. 438. This edition preceded the 1898 UK edition. Spine darkened VG. As pointed out in an editorial note A. T. Quiller-Couch wrote the final six chapters from notes and outlines left by Stevenson. Beinecke 654; Princeton 68. Scribner's unknown books
196517100552St. Helena California: James E. Beard 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Dean Mallette. Duodecimo size 22 pp. A chapter from the "Silverado Squatters" first published in 1883 this version with relief-cut illustrations and initials by Mallette Dean 1907-1975 and a frontis portrait of R.L.S. at the office of the St. Helena Star 1880 from the collection of Norman H. Strouse. <br/><br/>A brief recollection of the fine varieties of Napa wine written by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 after he'd moved to the south of France for health reasons. The brief text is ripe with yearning for the wines of Napa Valley and their "inimitable fragrance and soft fire." With a brief historical background in the form of an introduction by American food writer and founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library M.F.K. Fisher 1908-1992.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original quarter olive-green cloth and patterned green and white paper covered boards title-page spreads over two pages in black and green with frotis portrait and grape-vine decoration in green colophon device printed in green floriated initials in black and green running headpieces in green one green tailpiece; Centaur type duodecimo size 7.5" by 5.25" pagination: i-iv v-x 1-2 3-12 pp. In the original white tissue paper dust jacket.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy internally bright and free of prior owner markings covers are clean no chipping or rubbing to jacket no foxing or age-toning; a lovely copy like new.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Hawk no. 401.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. (James E. Beard) hardcover books
189329585New York: Scribners 1893. First American edition and first edition under this title published in the U.K. as Catriona; small 8vo pp. xiii 1 406 2 ads; very good copy in original decorative brown cloth stamped in silver and maroon and upper cover and spine. Beinecke 590; Prideaux 39 citing the London edition. <br/><br/> Scribners hardcover books
18969013641New York: Macmillan 1896. 1st. Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in publisher's original quarter green leather and green cloth with the covers and spine stamped in gilt. The binding is weak but intact at pages 64-65. Minor rubbing wear to the extremities. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
