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1890001874London: Chatto and Windus 1890. Lettered in black. Free edges chipped in places. Preliminary pages foxed. Reprinted from "The Scots Observer". A letter written in defense of the famous priest who founded the leprosarium on Molokai Island and who himself died of the dreaded disease. 30pp. First Edition. Brown Wrappers. Light Edge Wear and Soiling. Octavo. Chatto and Windus Paperback books
1881001785London: Chatto and Windus 1881. Spine faded. This edition has Kegan Paul on title page but with Chatto and Windus ads at back Chatto and Windus on spine. This book was not a hot-seller at first. Remainders were transferred to Chatto and Windus in 1884. Our copy is from that issue. See Prideaux 5. 296pp 32-page catalogue from Chatto and Windus. First Edition Later Issue. Orange Cloth. Minor Edge W/No Jacket. Octavo. Chatto and Windus Hardcover books
193587767Muenchen: Buchenau. Reichert 1935. Gebunden. Buchenau. Reichert unknown
1916301319Philadelphia David McKay Publisher ca. 1916. 1916. 8vo. Color frontispiece and 11 color plates by Millicent Sowerby. Attractive original green cloth stamped in green and gilt front cover with 5 gilt blooming flowers with green leaf stems spine with 1 gilt blooming flower and green leaf stem t.e.g. others uncut. Very good. 125 pages. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Philadelphia, David McKay Publisher [ca. 1916]. hardcover books
189095785London: Chatto & Windus 1890. Octavo pp. i-v vi vii-viii 1-3 4-137 138: blank 139: publisher's device 140: blank original bevel-edged navy cloth spine panel stamped in gold t.e.g. other edges untrimmed. First British edition. Scribner's American edition preceded this UK edition by five days. Beinecke 532. Minute scuff mark to bottom edge of rear cover free endpapers a bit darkened else a fine copy. #95785 Chatto & Windus unknown books
19216758Chicago Frank M. Morris 1921. 1921. First edition. Tall 8vo. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. Printed for private circulation from the hitherti unpublished manuscript. Decorated title page by T. Mark Leddell and Jack Rhodes. Original salmon boards stamped in black on the spine. Very good fresh. No signatures or bookplates. Number 47 of 150 numbered copies on handmade paper printed by the Grabhorn Press. GB 29. Beinecke 715. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Chicago, Frank M. Morris, 1921. hardcover books
19066760London Chatto & Windus 1906. 1906. First edition thus "Fine Paper Edition". Small 8vo. Title page in red and black. 277 pages. Contemporary gilt stamped half vellum over green cloth gilt stamped green morocco spine label t.e.g. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. Stevenson's remarks on Walt Whitman Thoreau and Yoshida Torajiro Victor Hugo John Knox et al. 1st Edition. Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1906. hardcover books
190095788London: Chatto & Windus 1900. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-343 344: blank title page printed in orange and black original bevel-edged navy cloth t.e.g. black coated endpapers. First separate public British edition. Preceded by a very limited edition titled THE SOUTH SEAS printed in 1890 for syndicate use the American 1896 Scribner edition and publication as part of the Edinburgh Edition of THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON in 1896. Beinecke 527. Top edge of text block dusty else a bright nearly fine copy. #95788 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1897001845Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates 1897. Stevenson Robert Louis. KIDNAPPED. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates c. 1896. Near Fine bright re-issue of this great classic published in America only ten years after the original first edition. Printed on quality watermarked paper and housed in a publisher's binding blocked in red blue and gilt. Very clean tight hinges no previous ownership marks. A terrific gift book. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. Henry T. Coates Hardcover books
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