NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS
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
Sumner & Stillman · États-Unis425,00 $US≈ 359,59 €
