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1909WB18293London: Seeley & Co 1909. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's highly decorated gilt-stamped blue cloth. The first printing of this new edition is surprisingly uncommon. Nice copy. <br/><br/> Seeley & Co hardcover books
1993USTEEDI00CCWBarnes and Noble 1993. Very Good. Stevenson Robert Louis. Edinburgh. New York: Barnes and Noble 1993. 121pp. Illustrated. 16mo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Barnes and Noble hardcover books
190243557London: Seeley & Co. Ltd 1902. Eighth edition 8vopp. 182 2; black & white illustrated plates and illustrations within the text partially unopened endpapers toned else a very good copy in original maroon cloth with gilt-decorated upper cover and gilt lettering on spine. <br/><br/> Seeley & Co., Ltd hardcover books
190045660London: Seeley & Co 1900. Seventh edition small 8vo pp. 8 182; plain full-page text illustrations throughout; contemporary half navy calf over gilt-stamped cloth quite soiled gum gilt spine in 6 compartments t.e.g. marbled boards; leather a bit scuffed textblock fine. <br/><br/> Seeley & Co hardcover books
18796759London Seeley Jackson and Halliday 1879. 1879. First edition. Folio. 6 etchings by A. Brunet-Debaines from drawings by S. Bough and W.E. Lockhart; 12 vignettes by Hector Chalmers and R. Kent Thomas in the text. 3/4 gilt stamped brown morocco over marbled boards spine with raised bands and gilt stamped devices covers gilt ruled patterned endpapers. t.e.g. original pictorial brown cloth bound in corners bumped. Very good. Later brown cloth slipcase. Bookplate of Charles Plumtre Johnson on the front pastedown. McKay 24. F. Hardcover. London, Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1879. hardcover books
1909WRCLIT36404New York: Douglas H. Cooke 1909. Gilt decorated boards. First separate printing. One of one hundred and fifty copies signed by the publisher for private distribution. Toe of spine sorely bruised neat collector's bookplate a few smudges to boards else a good copy. Douglas H. Cooke hardcover books
1907115923Boston MA: Small Maynard & Co 1907. Later printing. Hardcover. A reprinting of the 1903 edition. A collection of essays from the author of "Treasure Island." A clean about near fine copy with the lettering to the spine somewhat dulled. Small, Maynard & Co unknown 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
1905WRCLIT58338London: Chatto & Windus 1905. Early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. original cloth spine bound in the rear. First separate edition thus. Bookplate some top edge gilding bleed into the upper margins of the endleaves otherwise very good. BEINECKE 691. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1905WRCLIT58356London: Chatto & Windus 1905. Early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. gilt 'RLS' device on each board original cloth spine bound at rear. First separately published collective edition 3000 copies printed. Bookplate spine extremities slightly worn otherwise very good. BEINECKE 690. PRIDEAUX p.60. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1905WRCLIT54409London: Chatto & Windus 1905. Gilt polished buckram t.e.g. First separate edition 3000 copies printed. Endsheets tanned as usual small bookplate shadow on free endsheet else very good. BEINECKE 690. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1914013107New York: Scribners 1914. Cloth. E.R. Herman. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 83p. 20 leaves of plates. A very copy in protective mylar cover. Each plates has its original tissue guard. no previous ownership name or marks of any kind. Scribners unknown books
19025835London: Longmans Green and Co 1902. Martyn Ethel King. xii100pp. Title printed in red & black. Illustrated with 6 orig. etchings 1 a frontispiece each with a printed tissue guard. Orig. brown cloth over boards paper spine label a bit darkened. Some chips at corners of boards. A fresh additional copy of the spine label is tipped-in at front. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover books
8189919. FT. STEVENSON Robert Louis. FACSIMILE REPRINTS OF PAMPHLETS as follows: The Graver & The Pen; Moral Emblems A Collection of Cuts and Verses; Moral Emblems A Second Collection of Cuts and Verses; Not I And Other Poems. All fine sewn in printed wrappers. For the four. unknown books
192418077London: Chatto & Windus 1924. Cloth backed boards. Top edge gilt untrimmed. VG light edgwear with top of boards slightly faded/inside front hinge beginning to crack making hinge weak. xxvii 385 pp. 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus 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
1882WRCLIT58603London: Chatto & Windus 1882. Early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. gilt 'RLS' device on both boards original cloth bound in rear. Spine extremities a bit worn bound without terminal catalogue otherwise very good. First edition. One of ca. 1000 copies constituting the first printing. PRIDEAUX 7. BEINECKE 112. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1905115834London: Chatto & Windus 1905. Finely bound example of this collection of the author's critical studies of nine great authors. Octavo bound in half vellum with morocco spine label lettered in gilt botanical gilt tooling to the spine marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Small name to the front free endpaper. Robert Louis Stevenson's Familiar Studies of Men and Books contains nine critical author studies collected from the monthly press. The nine worthies include Victor Hugo Robert Burns Walt Whitman Henry David Thoreau Yoshida-Torajiro and Samuel Pepys. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1901122750Oxford England: Howard Wilford Bell 1901. paper-covered boards. 32mo. paper-covered boards. 78 2 pages. Limited to 299 copies McKay 515. Printed for the publisher at the Holywell Press Oxford. Tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of Stevenson. Black and white portraits in text. Bibliographic history follows text. Covers tanned spine chipped at edges. Foxing on endpappers. Howard Wilford Bell 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
1890119581890. An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu. London: Chatto and Windus 1890. Original brown wrappers. First Trade Edition consisting of 1000 copies preceded only by 25 copies issued in Sydney and 30 issued in Edinburgh. On the Stevensons' voyage to the South Pacific they had visited the leper colony on Molokai founded by Dr. Damien who had himself died of leprosy the year before they arrived. A missionary named Hyde wrote a letter denouncing Damien; this piece is Stevenson's open and irate reply to Hyde. It was first published 25 copies when the Stevenson party arrived in Sydney; Stevenson boasted of it as being blatantly libellous. This is a very good copy of this fragile piece a few wrapper corners chipped away some wear to the fragile spine. Beinecke 510; Princeton 44B. <br/><br/> unknown books
189728064Portland: Thomas B. Mosher 1897. Narrow 16mo pp. 12 29; frontispiece port. title printed in red and black; original cream paper over boards green cardboard slipcase; very good partially unopened copy with the slipcase splitting at the edges but still sound. <br/><br/> Thomas B. Mosher hardcover books
1890WRCLIT65375London: Chatto & Windus 1890. Printed drab wrappers. Ex-Victoria R.I. Collection at BYU with bookplate bearing a discard stamp and stamp on verso of title. A good copy in folding cloth case. First public edition preceded by two private editions and one Honolulu broadside printing. One of 1000 copies. An essay reprinted from "The Scots Observer" written in defense of the famous priest who founded the leprosarium on Molokai Island. BEINECKE 510. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1968WRCLIT47942New York: Cobble Hill Press 1968. 12mo. Maroon cloth stamped in black. Portrait. First Cobble Hill edition. Foreword by George L. McKay. Fine in lightly dust smudged dust jacket. Cobble Hill Press hardcover books
1930WRCLIT61909San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark Jr. by John Henry Nash 1930. Two volumes. Large quarto and octavo quarter vellum and boards. Portraits. Tan offsetting from slipcase to boards two faint smudges to one margin otherwise about fine in dual compartment slipcase with modest wear and soiling. Compliments slip tipped in. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed on handmade paper by John Henry Nash for private distribution. Introduction by William Andrews Clark to the larger volume which is a new typographic rendering of the text. The smaller volume is a photofacsimile of the 1890 Sydney edition. Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash hardcover books
