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1892013575London: Chatto and Windus 1892. Corners bevelled. Spine with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Small water spot front cover. Edges and spine extremities show light wear. Book-plate front free endpaper. Peripheral foxing of front endpapers. Internally a very clean copy. 317pp. First English Edition. Black Cloth. General Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. Chatto and Windus Hardcover books
1892000515London: Chatto and Windus 1892. Bevelled edges spine lettered in gold. Top edge gilt. Spine just a bit sunned. Ink owner's inscription on front free endpaper dated August 1892. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown James Maclehose Glasgow. Quite a nice copy of Stevenson's impressions of his American journey from New York to San Francisco in 1879. He had come to America rather hastily to check on the health of his future wife Mrs. Osbourne who was residing in California. The volume contains other essays including "A Christmas Serman". See Prideaux 33. 317pp. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Edges Lightly Worn/No Jacket. Octavo. Chatto and Windus Hardcover books
1901D16991New York: Charles Scribner's Sons D.B. Updike The Merrymount Press Boston 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original cloth. Previous owner's name stamped to front otherwise a nice copy. 26 pages. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons (D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston) hardcover books
199156130London:: Folio Society. Very Good. 1991. Hardcover. Introduction by James Michie. First edition thus. Fine in a very good minor shelf wear slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
1932D16995Glen Head New York: The Ashlar Press 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark green cloth binding with gilt cover design and lettering on spine. One of 200 copies. 26 pages. Tape residue to front and rear pastedowns else a fresh copy. <br/><br/> The Ashlar Press hardcover books
1932122970Glen Head New York: Ashlar Press 1932. Hardcover. VG- A spot of soiling to front cover. Green cloth over boards with gilt titling and decoration; 26 pp.; Illustration on title page but no others. One of 200 copies in this edition; Prospectus laid in. Ashlar Press hardcover books
1932WRCLIT58644Glen Head NY: The Ashlar Press 1932. Small octavo. Gilt cloth. Some discoloration to endsheets at gutters with light foxing at edges else very good with prospectus laid in. One of two hundred copies printed in Oxford type on handmade paper with decorations from cuts by Bewick. The first imprint of the press maintained by the Heckshers. The Ashlar Press hardcover books
25694Oakland: Ben Kennedy 1931. Hardcover. Near fine. First Edition. One of 110 numbered copies. This copy unnumbered and unsigned but specially bound in quarter orange calf with the title blind-stamped on the spine and brown paper boards with long natural fibers. Wear at head and heel of spine otherwise fine. <br/><br/> Oakland: Ben Kennedy, 1931 hardcover 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
190858520London: Chatto & Windus 1908. Large Paper Edition no. 169 of 250 copies. With 12 mounted plates in color and 12 in black and white by Noel Rooke 2 folding maps. 1 vols. 8vo. Original vellum spine titled in gilt gilt vignette on upper board t.e.g. A 1/4-inch split at top of lower joint else a Very Fine copy in printed dust jacket. Large Paper Edition no. 169 of 250 copies. With 12 mounted plates in color and 12 in black and white by Noel Rooke 2 folding maps. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 250 copies in Full Vellum with dust jacket. Beinecke 19 Chatto & Windus unknown books
190312132Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co. Very Good. 1903. Hardcover. ex-lib; VG . Herbert B. Turner & Co. hardcover books
1878WRCLIT58325London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1878. Full early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. original decorated cloth spine and upper panel bound in at the rear. Bookplate. A couple of light smudges to fore-edge joints lightly rubbed but a very good copy. First edition of the author's first formal book publication preceded by several pamphlets and offprints. The edition consisted of 750 copies and includes a pictorial extra-title by Walter Crane. It would be three years before a second printing was required. BEINECKE 12. PRIDEAUX 1. C. Kegan Paul & Co. hardcover books
1925457281New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. South Seas edition. 16mo. 292pp. Gilt-stamped green cloth. Small stain on page 200-201 spine ends worn very good in a very good age-toned dustwrapper with small nicks and tears along the extremities. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
19144083New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1914. Sm. 8vo. xviii230pp. Nicely bound in full blue morocco gilt. T.e.g. "Biographical Edition.". Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
190841281London: Chatto and Windus 1908. 8vo pp. xvi 233; color frontispiece 23 plates 11 of which are in color map endpapers; publisher's red pictorial cloth upper cover and spine stamped in gilt t.e.g.; spine toned light shelf wear contemporary signature on half title page else a very good copy. Forms part of the St. Martin's Illustrated Library of Standard Authors. <br/><br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1887319961Bournemouth 1887. Ink on laid paper. 1 page 20 lines with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6-3/8 inches. Old folds. Ink on laid paper. 1 page 20 lines with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6-3/8 inches. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 and his wife Fanny lived in Bournemouth from 1884 through August 1887 at first in rented lodgings and from April 1885 at Skerryvore named after one of Alan Stevenson's lighthouses and which Thomas Stevenson bought as a wedding gift for Fanny. An early and regular visitor to Skerryvore was Henry James. The Bournemouth years were prolific ones for Stevenson despite his illness. A Child's Garden of Verses was published in March 1885 and he wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in September and October 1885 and Kidnapped the following year.<br/>Early in 1887 Stevenson's health took a turn for the worse. Colvin notes that "for several months his correspondence almost entirely fails". In a February letter to Henry James Stevenson wrote "All new work stands still".<br/>The letter to his cousin Jane Mackintosh née Stevenson 1843-1909 seeks a junior household servant a recurring problem at Skerryvore. Reading in part:<br/>"Dear Janey which seems a formidable address from one who is practically a stranger - do you know anything of a decently strong and decently good natured girl not too old to learn not too gay to live in a very quiet house and reasonably anxious to please. We have a Swiss girl who is housekeeper and manages everything for us. . We wish a girl to teach because older girls find the place dull - and odd; especially the cooking. Your affectionate cousin Robert Louis Stevenson".<br/><br/>A good suggestive letter written just before a period of great change. In May Stevenson's father died; his memoir "Thomas Stevenson Civil Engineer" was published in June. In August the Stevensons left Bournemouth and sailed to America with a case of champagne in their cabin as a parting gift from Henry James. "Louis was now about to abandon the polite society of England for the rough life of the frontier and the ocean" McLynn. unknown books
1890012400London: Chatto & Windus 1890. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A finely preserved copy charcoal polished linen beveled edges gte sides untrimmed 8vo vi 2 137 2. Trace spotting to endpapers else clean interiors throughout. Solid very attractive copy. No names inscriptions or bookplates. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1890D17029London: Chatto & Windus 1890. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo original dark blue buckram. 137 pp. A very bright copy and scarce thus. Attractive bookplate of Henry C. Nelson featuring a fox and a trout. Housed in a custom cloth box with RLS bookplate fixed inside. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1890D17049New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Green cloth gilt lettering and cover design. 85 pages. Precedes Chatto & Windus edition by 5 days. Bookplate of William Savidge. A beautiful copy. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1890D16979London: Chatto & Windus 1890 . First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo original dark blue buckram. 137 pp. Light rubbing to cloth as often. A nice tight copy. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus 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
189029610London: Chatto & Windus 1890. First British edition published 5 days after the Scribner edition; 8vo pp. vi 2 137 3; slightly rubbed at the top of the spine and along the leading edge of the lower cover else near fine in original blue buckram lettered in gilt on spine t.e.g. Beinecke 532; Prideaux 32. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
189040990London: Chatto & Windus 1890. First English edition preceded by a few days by the American edition. viii 137 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue buckram spine lettered in gilt. Very slight rubbing to covers else near fine. First English edition preceded by a few days by the American edition. viii 137 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 532 Chatto & Windus unknown books
189037457London: Chatto & Windus Picadilly 1890. First edition Large Paper Number 53 of 100 copies signed by R. and R. Clark The Printers. 1 vols. 4to. Original linen spine darkened minor wear. Bookplate. First edition Large Paper Number 53 of 100 copies signed by R. and R. Clark The Printers. 1 vols. 4to. Beinecke 535 Chatto & Windus, Picadilly unknown 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
