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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
18902473London: Chatto and Windus 1890. First Published Ediiton. 30 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original wrappers slightly chipped at edges. In quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise. First Published Ediiton. 30 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The Sydney edition is the true first consisting of 25 copies; the Edinburgh second edition was limited to 300. This edition was limited to 1100 copies. Reprinted from The Scots Observer. Beinecke 510 Chatto and Windus unknown books
1886217653London: Cassell & Co 1886. First edition second issue with line 11 on p. 40 reading "pleasure"; ads dated "5.G-7.86. Folding map. viii 311 1; 8 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Spine a little darkened covers slightly discolored spine tips very lightly rubbed slight toning to edges of text. First edition second issue with line 11 on p. 40 reading "pleasure"; ads dated "5.G-7.86" Folding map. viii 311 1; 8 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 381 Cassell & Co unknown books
1886WRCLIT35660London: Cassell & Company 1886. Original red cloth. Folding map. First ordinary U.K.edition first "issue" with the earliest forms of the text in the requisite places. Cloth rather faded and soiled several small nicks to spine extremities small sticker residue on free endsheet and Smith's blindstamp in corner of free endsheet inner hinges cracking slightly. A sound but ordinary copy. BEINECKE 378. Cassell & Company hardcover books
1928335Stevenson Robert Louis. <i>Ten Fables with Twenty One Illustrations by Rachel Russell</i>. London: The Swan Press Chelsea : MCMXXVIII 1928. With a memorial bookplate "In Memory of Michael Hariot Huth Walters for his Friend" with the name Betty Menzies written in ink. Elizabeth G.C. Menzies was the rare woman staff photographer at Princeton University whose images decorated the front cover of the <i>Princeton Alumni Weekly</i> for many years and a friend of Michael Heriot Huth Walters. Walters died suddenly. His friends at Princeton and his family owners of the Swan Press compiled a memorial volume of tributes from his classmates. This volume of Stevenson was given in appreciation to each of those contributors. The woodcut frontispiece is "'Drink' Sang the Daughter of Miru." Unpaginated In-8. iv; 36 pages; iv 26 cm. Copy 65 of 250 printed in Baskerville type on hand-made paper. Copy 65 is one of the numbered uncolored copies numbered from 11 to 240. Blue swan decorated paper boards with a white linen backstrip. Two corners slightly bumped otherwise very good to fine condition with a bittersweet association. The Swan Press, Chelsea hardcover books
188795793London: Chatto & Windus 1887. Octavo pp. 1-10 1-3 4-296 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "September 1886" inserted at rear original decorated blue cloth front panel stamped in black and silver spine panel stamped in black light brown and gold publisher's device stamped in black on rear panel white endpapers with floral pattern printed in olive green. First edition. Collection of short fiction including several fine supernatural tales "Will o' the Mill" "Markheim" and "Thrawn Janet" as well as "Olalla" the latter "one of the best horror stories in English." - Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural p. 402. Barron ed Horror Literature 2-92. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1533. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV pp. 1698-1701. Tymn ed Horror Literature 3-229. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 456. Bleiler 1978 p. 186. Beinecke 411. Light rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips a bright near fine copy with tight inner hinges. A superior copy of this book. #95793 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1924Embry 161450Charles Scribner's Sons 1924. First Wyeth edition first printing. Fine in lightly soiled near fine dust jacket with a few short closed tears. Color illus. by N. C. Wyeth. Fine in near fine to fine dust jacket with a small light stain tiny tears and short creases to upper spine tip and a tiny chip to lower spine end in mylar cover. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First Wyeth edition, first printing. unknown books
188520757London: Longmans Green and Co 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 207 pp in original cloth boards with titles in black brown coated endpapers. A very good copy with the spine lightly sunned and a small split in the cloth along the front hinge. Bookplate of the noted collector Beverly Chew on the front pastedown. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover books