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188250220New York: Henry Holt & Co 1882. First American edition; # 141 of the Leisure Hour Series. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. New York: Henry Holt & Co 1882. First American edition; # 141 of the Leisure Hour Series. 329 pp. Hardcover. 12mo. Mustard yellow black - and gilt-stamped cloth. Light wear to covers at head and heel; front hinge strengthened; bookplate on front pastedown; ownerÕs signature and date of Dec. 1882 in ink on title-page; bottom and fore-edges of Contents page chipped else clean and tight. Over all a nice looking copy of a scarce first. Very good/No dust jacket. Insurance required to ship this item. Henry Holt & Co hardcover books
188958504London: Chatto & Windus 1889. Large Paper Edition no. 76 of 100 copies. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Original white cloth. Small rust mark on front board toning of endleaves else a Fine copy. Large Paper Edition no. 76 of 100 copies. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Beinecke 145 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1888136311888. A Tale of the Two Roses. London Paris New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company 1888. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1888. Original red cloth decorated in black. First English Edition of this historical tale of adventure and romance published about six weeks after the New York one. Stevenson wrote this entire novel in the Spring of 1883 for serial appearance in "Young Folks" where TREASURE ISLAND had then just appeared likewise by "Capt. George North". He wrote not only rapidly but also carelessly: proofreaders had to alert him to inconsistencies in his plot and characters. Stevenson derided the work as "tushery"; neither he nor his British publisher considered it worth publishing in book form. However in 1887 the American publisher McClure sought it out for American serialization which in turn prompted Scribner's to publish it followed by Cassell. A tough book to find in truly fine condition this one is near-fine volume slightly askew as usual less cover soil than usual for this bright red cloth; the delicate patterned endpapers are intact. Beinecke 481 these July ads; Princeton 40A. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1894233766London: William Heinemann 1894. First English edition first printing. 240 pp. plus 20 pp. publisher's catalogue dated August 1894. 1 vols. 8vo. Beautiful copy in decorated bronze smooth cloth stamped in black. Bookplate of Ann Elzabeth Bontine and Blairhame. In brown cloth slipcase. First English edition first printing. 240 pp. plus 20 pp. publisher's catalogue dated August 1894. 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 602 William Heinemann unknown books
1887119571887. London: Chatto & Windus 1887. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1886. Original blue cloth decorated in silver and black. First Edition of this handsomely-bound collection of tales some of which like "Thrawn Janet" are along the same vein as JEKYLL AND HYDE -- Stevenson called such stories his "creepers." This copy has the earliest ad catalogue and light green patterned endpapers some copies have light grey -- no priority; it is in near-fine condition with scarcely any wear and with the silver stars still fairly bright. Beinecke 411; Princeton 33. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1887242465London: Chatto & Windus 1887. Second edition Number 21 of 50 Large Paper copies signed by the Printers R. & R. Clark Edinburgh. vi ii 278 1 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Cream cloth. Spine sunned light rubbing to spine ends else fine. Unopened copy. Second edition Number 21 of 50 Large Paper copies signed by the Printers R. & R. Clark Edinburgh. vi ii 278 1 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Stevenson the Essayist. Beautifully produced collection of Stevenson's essays including the title work An Apology for Idlers Child's Play and many others. Beinecke 75 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1919Embry 147272Charles Scribner's Sons 1919. One volume with light discoloration to front panel one volume with cracked inner hinge spines very slightly faded overall near fine. Red cloth no dust jackets. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. hardcover books
188930034London: Cassell 1889. First Edition. 8vo pp. 332. Bookplate on pastedown remnants of old royal library bookplate on cover Light foxing hinges tender very good. With inserted advertisements dated 7/89 as called for. Cassell unknown books
1910215949London: Chatto & Windus 1910. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. Introduction by Mrs. Stevenson. The whole reproduced in colors and gold after the original illuminated drawings by Alberto Sangorski. Ornate title and borders in various colors & gilt. Sangorski. unpaginated ca. 25p. printed on rectos only. Slim 4to off-white boards; d.w. London: Chatto & Windus 1910. First Edition.<br/><br/> The plain brown dust wrapper flaps have offset on the end-papers. Small ownership inscription otherwise fine.<br/><br/> Chatto & Windus unknown books
18934983New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1893. First edition. First edition. Original light tan fine wove cloth with superb cover design by Margaret Armstrong consisting of brown heart motifs in mosaic pattern and four bold silver interlocking swords similar heart designs on spine gilt lettering. A scarce Stevenson title to find in first edition with s superb design by Armstrong. Near fine. Gullans #240. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1887135431887. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1887. 4 pp undated ads. Original printed yellow wrappers. First American Edition of this collection of tales some of which like "Thrawn Janet" and "Markham" are along the same vein as JEKYLL AND HYDE - Stevenson called such stories his "creepers." This copy is in yellow wrappers others were bound in red cloth and offered at a higher price. This is a very good copy with minor soil wrinkling and edge-wear of the very delicate wrapper -- rather remarkable condition actually for so fragile a volume. In our experience the American edition in cloth or especially in wrappers is much scarcer than the English one even on this side of the Atlantic. Beinecke 413; Princeton 33A copy 2. unknown books
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
1881D17061London: C. Kegan and Paul 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; original cloth. Spine faded hinges tender and cracking. Still a very good copy of this early RLS title. Housed in a custom slipcase. <br/><br/> C. Kegan and Paul hardcover books
6783LONDON CHATTO 1887. #27/50; LARGE PAPER SECOND EDITION VERY GOOD. LONDON, CHATTO, 1887 unknown books
6766SF BK CLUB OF CA 1952. ALLEN PRESS FINE. SF, BK CLUB OF CA, 1952 unknown books
1888218750London: Longmans Green 1888. Third Edition. 101 pp. Spottiswoode & Co. Printers. 1 vols. 12mo. Blue original cloth with mounted cover illustration by Smith. Fine copy in quarter blue morocco slipcase and chemise. Bookplate of Joan Whitney. Third Edition. 101 pp. Spottiswoode & Co. Printers. 1 vols. 12mo. Longmans, Green unknown books
188350218Boston MA: Roberts Brothers 1883. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Boston MA: Roberts Brothers 1883. First American edition. Frontispiece by Walter Crane. 261 10 undated ads pp. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Front gutter shows professional repair; small ownerÕs stamp on half-title else clean and tight. A very nice copy. Very good/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
1888315842New York: Scribner's Magazine 1888. Frontispiece portrait by J.H.E. Whitney title-page in red and black. 122-128; 251-256; 380-384; 509-512; 635-640; 764-768; 122-128; 250-256; 377-384; 507-512; 636-640; 764-768 pp. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter blue calf and marbled boards red morocco spine label. Rebacked. Gift inscription from Henry M. Hoyt father of Elinor Wylie to his sister Maude B. Hoyt 1891. Frontispiece portrait by J.H.E. Whitney title-page in red and black. 122-128; 251-256; 380-384; 509-512; 635-640; 764-768; 122-128; 250-256; 377-384; 507-512; 636-640; 764-768 pp. 8vo. Partially printed on thick paper. Nonce volume assembling all of Stevenson's short pieces published in Scribner's Magazine in 1888 with a specially printed title-page. Type setting and pagination follows that of the original periodical appearances. The first page of those piece beginning on even numbered pages A Chapter on Dreams Beggars Some Gentlemen in Fiction Popular Authors The Education of an Engineer printed on verso of thick paper.<br/><br/>Comprises the following pieces: A Chapter on Dreams; The Lantern-Bearers; Beggars; Pulvis et Umbra; Gentlemen; Some Gentlemen in Fiction; Popular Authors; Epilogue to "An Inland Voyage"; A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposed to Embrace the Career of Art; Contributions to the History of Fife: Random Memories; The Education of an Engineer. More Random Memories; A Christmas Sermon. The Master of Ballantrae which was serialized in Scribner's beginning in November 1888 is not included here.<br/><br/>With provenance from the family of poet Elinor Wylie. Beinecke 1055 1056 1057 1059 1060 1061 1062 1063 1065 1066 1067 & 1069 Scribner's Magazine unknown books
58542New York: M. J. Ivers & Co n.d. Map. 2 ff. 172 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Some marginal chipping and loss at spine ends. Generally clean and sound. Map. 2 ff. 172 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In its size and pagination this appears to correspond to Beinecke 384 published by Munro just two weeks after the first American edition with one of Stevenson's requested corrections to the text; here with the imprint and wrappers of M.J. Ivers & Co.<br/>An interesting Stevenson variant. Not in Beinecke M. J. Ivers & Co unknown books
1888312518London: Cassell & Company 1888. First English edition. viii 324 pp 4 16 pp publisher's catalogue dated as per Beinecke copy. 8vo. Original red cloth stamped in gilt and black floral endpapers. Contemporary ownership signature inside front cover. Slight lean as usual spine a touch faded some minor soiling but a near fine copy. First English edition. viii 324 pp 4 16 pp publisher's catalogue dated as per Beinecke copy. 8vo. Beinecke 481 Cassell & Company unknown books
1889152812London: Cassell 1889. First. hardcover. very good. 8vo pictorial red cloth stamped in black. London: Cassell 1889. First Edition.<br/><br/> A better than average copy. Slightly askew with a little binding soil; ownership signature; small portrait of the author pasted on the flyleaf. 12 titles listed opposite the half-title. Ads correctly dated 7.89.<br/><br/> Cassell unknown books
042446New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London William Heinemann in Association with Chatto and Windus Etc. 1921-1923. 25 of 26 volumes lacking vol. 18 b/w engraved front. original blue cloth with the slightly chipped glassine paper title labels on the upper spines deckle edges partially unopened in the original stiff board slipcases. No. 927 of 1060 sets of which only 1000 were for sale. Contents: v. 1 An inland voyage; Travels with a donkey; Edinburgh: picturesque notes. v. 1 "Virginibus puerisque"; The amateur emigrant; The old and new Pacific capitals; The Silverado squatters. v. 3 New Arabian nights; The pavilion on the links and other tales. v. 4 Familiar studies of men and books; Literary papers. v. 5 Treasure Island; Prince Otto. v. 6 Deacon Brodie or The double life; and other plays. v. 7 The dynamiter written in collaboration with Mrs. Stevenson; Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The body-snatcher. v. 8 A child's garden of verses; Underwoods; Ballads; New poems. v. 9 Kidnapped. v. 10 Catriona the further adventures of David Balfour. v. 11 The merry men and other tales; Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. v. 12 Memories and portraits; Random memories; Records of a family of engineers. v. 13 The Black Arrow; The misadventures of John Nicholson. v. 14 The master of Ballantrae; The great North Road. v. 15 The wrong box written in collaboration with Lloyd Osbourne; Island nights' entertainments; Father Damien. v. 16 In the South Seas; A footnote to history. v. 17 The wrecker written in collaboration with Lloyd Osbourne. v. 18 LACKING IN THIS SET. v. 19 St. Ives completed by A. T. Quiller-Couch. v. 20-23 Letters. v. 24 Sketches; Criticism; Lay morals; and other essays. v. 25 Juvenilia; Moral emblems; Fables and other papers. v. 26 Miscellanea. Charles Scribner's Sons; London, William Heinemann, in Association with Chatto and Windus, Etc. unknown books
188158533London: C. Kegan Paul &Co 1881. First Edition. 296 32 ads dated 4.81pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original orange cloth. The first state of the binding of three the spine imprint reading "C. Kegan Paul & Co." Rubbed. Very Good. First Edition. 296 32 ads dated 4.81pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 70 C. Kegan Paul &Co unknown books
189329580London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Co 1893. First British edition published 5 days after the New York edition; 8vo pp. x 2 277 16 ads; inserted map printed in blue black green and red; 28 full-p. illustrations included in the pagination; original pictorial blue cloth; very slight darkening of the spine else fine and bright. This copy has the price correction in ink in "Works by R. L. S." p. ii. Beinecke 576; Prideaux 38. <br/><br/> Cassell & Co hardcover books
1882146511882. New York: Henry Holt and Company 1882. Undated endpaper ads. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in black. First American hardbound edition issued as No. 141 in the Leisure Hour Series; George Munro's pirated "Seaside Library" edition with triple-column text in a magazine-sized format was listed in Publisher's Weekly a week earlier -- though actual dates of publication are not known. NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS published in the U. K. as Stevenson's only multi-volume first edition consists of "The Suicide Club" three loosely-connected tales "The Rajah's Diamond" four loosely-connected tales "The Pavilion on the Links" plus three short French tales. Calder has observed that although RLS was very fond of these tales himself they "rest uneasily in a limbo between fantasy and psychological realism." This is a clean attractive copy in fine condition -- quite remarkable for one of these delicate pale-colored volumes of the Leisure Hour Series the same series that contains the first American editions of most of Thomas Hardy's novels. Beinecke 142; Princeton 17A; Queen's Quorum 11 "Conan Doyle considered The Pavilion on the Links 'the very model of dramatic narrative'". unknown books
