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Robert Louis Stevenson | First Editions
1850 - 1894
See below our stock of Robert Louis Stevenson First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1930. [Strange tales]. FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.vii; [blank]; 136; [4]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt, other untrimmed. With eight suitably atmospheric plates and numerous in-text vignettes. Stamped 'Specimen copy'... More
Catriona. A Sequel to 'Kidnapped' Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad.
London: Cassell and Co., Ltd. 1893. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[x]; 371; [18], catalogue dated 8/93. Publisher's dark blue cloth, floral-patterned pale green endpapers. Armorial bookplate 'H.R. Bruxner', ex-libris 'Bibliotheca Qvarnsforsiana' (two small stamps). Light wear, some inoffensive foxing, inside paper joints parted, small splashmark to rear board. Shows well. A.... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: John Lane, 1912. Delightfully illustrated. Octavo, pp.5 [contents]; 137; 6 [ads]. Attractively bound in publisher's red cloth, highly decorated in gilt. Cloth in excellent condition, though a little faded to spine. Very clean throughout excepting browning to first and final few leaves. A splendid item, teeming with charming illustrations. More
The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Including the famous titles: Treasure Island, New Arabian Nights, The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, The Dynamiters, The Master of Ballantrae, Travels with a Donkey, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, etc.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 27 volumes. Complete. Octavo (22 x 15cm). With frontispiece protrait of the author, title page printed in red and black. Bound in contemporary red half morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Internally fine. Some volumes rubbed, some hinges and... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of the Beach of Falesa, the Bottle Imp, and the Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell and Company. 1893. First state. Octavo, pp. x, 277, 16 of adverts. Price hand corrected on page facing half title page. Illustrations by Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell. Blue cloth cover with gilt titles and decoration to spine and front, floral print endpapers. Slight lean to the book... More
The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter's Tale.
London: Cassell and Company, 1889. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 332 [20]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black to upper board, with an illustration. Endpapers with printed floral decoration. All edges untrimmed. Small black ink ownership to front free endpaper. Some occasional... More
St. Ives. Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. First Edition. Octavo, pp.312. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper board, edges untrimmed. Bookplate and bookseller's ticket. Binding is handsome, with slight rubbing to lower edge and bumping to corners. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally clean and free from spotting. An unfinished novel... More
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8]; 141; [1], blank. Bound by W. H. Smith in contemporary orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine, white endpapers. Contents a little toned, a couple of leaves frayed to fore-edge, first and final pages browned, binding... More
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886. [Classic Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8]; 141; [1], blank. In contemporary full limp leather with gilt titles and rules to spine, covers bordered in blind, plain blue endpapers, edges speckled red. Ownership Harry Hargreave Fawcett (two discreet stamps), trivial handling... More
The Works of R.L. Stevenson. Including the famous titles: Treasure Island, New Arabian Nights, The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, The Dynamiters, The Master of Ballantrae, Travels with a Donkey, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, etc.
Boston, MA: Charles E. Lauriat, by arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. 10 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 50 cm). Frontispiece illustrations with tissue guards, title-pages printed in red and black. A very handsome set, finely bound for Lauriat in contemporary dark blue half morocco with red floral on-lays... More
The Wrong Box.
London: Cassell, 1889. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, noted in several important crime checklists. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.283 [16]. Dated January 1889. Publisher's red cloth, titled in clack and gilt, publisher's 'swan' patterned endpapers. Some occasional spotting, and some rubbing to extremities. One soil mark to rear panel; backstrip lightly... More
![The Dynamiter [More New Arabian Nights] Containing; Prologue of the Cigar Divan, Challoner's adventure: The Squire of Dames, Story of the Destroying Angel, The Squire of Dames (Concluded), Somerset's adventure: The Superfluous Mansion, Narrative of The Spirited Old Lady, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Zero's Tale of The Explosive Bomb, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Desborough's adventure: The Brown Box, Story of The Fair Cuban, The Brown Box (Concluded), The Superfluous Mansion (Concluded), Epilogue of the Cigar Divan. Robert Louis STEVENSON, Balfour.](/pictures/thumb/51299.jpg?v=1542993308)
The Dynamiter [More New Arabian Nights] Containing; Prologue of the Cigar Divan, Challoner's adventure: The Squire of Dames, Story of the Destroying Angel, The Squire of Dames (Concluded), Somerset's adventure: The Superfluous Mansion, Narrative of The Spirited Old Lady, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Zero's Tale of The Explosive Bomb, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Desborough's adventure: The Brown Box, Story of The Fair Cuban, The Brown Box (Concluded), The Superfluous Mansion (Concluded), Epilogue of the Cigar Divan.
London: Longmans Green and Co., 1885. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.207. In contemporary full limp leather with gilt titles and rules to spine, covers bordered in blind, plain blue endpapers, edges speckled red. Ownership Harry Hargreave Fawcett (ink signature and two stamps), trivial handling. A fine... More
Island Nights Entertainments. Consisting of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell, 1893. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277; [3], blank; [16], advertisements (May). With illustrations, colour map opposite p.1. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt decoration to spine and upper, floral-patterned endpapers. Internally clean, contents a little shaken... More
Across The Plains. With Other Memories and Essays.
London: Chatto and Windus. 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.x; 317; [1], blank. Elegantly hand-bound in brown half oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, publisher's original cloth bound in at rear. Internally clean; exterior unmarked. A fine copy in a.... More
![The Dynamiter [More New Arabian Nights] Containing; Prologue of the Cigar Divan, Challoner's adventure: The Squire of Dames, Story of the Destroying Angel, The Squire of Dames (Concluded), Somerset's adventure: The Superfluous Mansion, Narrative of The Spirited Old Lady, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Zero's Tale of The Explosive Bomb, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Desborough's adventure: The Brown Box, Story of The Fair Cuban, The Brown Box (Concluded), The Superfluous Mansion (Concluded), Epilogue of the Cigar Divan. Robert Louis STEVENSON, Balfour.](/pictures/thumb/35213.jpg?v=1493310842)
The Dynamiter [More New Arabian Nights] Containing; Prologue of the Cigar Divan, Challoner's adventure: The Squire of Dames, Story of the Destroying Angel, The Squire of Dames (Concluded), Somerset's adventure: The Superfluous Mansion, Narrative of The Spirited Old Lady, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Zero's Tale of The Explosive Bomb, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Desborough's adventure: The Brown Box, Story of The Fair Cuban, The Brown Box (Concluded), The Superfluous Mansion (Concluded), Epilogue of the Cigar Divan.
London: Longmans Green and Co. 1885. [Strange Tales] Octavo, pp.207. 'New Edition' published in the same year as the first. Elegantly hand-bound in full black oasis morocco leather, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with decorated raised bands, gilt titles to covers, marbled endpapers. One or two minor marks else fine... More
Island Nights Entertainments. Consisting of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London, Cassell and Company Limited. 1893. FIRST EDITION: Crown 8vo. xii, 277 numbered pages. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt decoration and text to spine and upper. Complete with numerous illustrations. Occasional light rubbing to edges of boards, slight cracking to joints, but a tight and robust copy. Bleiler; Checklist... More
Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1886. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. With folding map. Bound in publisher's russet cloth, titled in gilt to spine, black endpapers. Owner's bookplate and signature. A little rubbed and soiled, spine sunned. A very good copy, corrected text issue. Prideaux; A Bibliography of the Works of Robert... More
The Silverado Squatters.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1883. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, preceded by a pamphlet of the same title, nominally published (10 copies!) to secure English copyright. 8vo., pp. 254. A very attractive early binding of half brown morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, top edge gilt, marbled boards and end-papers. Illustrated... More
Weir of Hermiston An Unfinished romance.
London: Chatto and Windus 1896. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp[vii]; 290; 32, catalogue, dated March 1896. Title page printed in red and black. Elegantly hand-bound in black half oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, publisher's original cloth bound in at... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. First Illustrated Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's pictorial green cloth, showing a child holding a plant pot out of which roses sprout, surrounding a view of a formal garden, with gilt titles and further decoration to spine, rear board shows a girl digging... More
The Wrecker.
London: Cassell. 1892. FIRST EDITION, noted in several important crime checklists. Octavo. 427pp. 10pp ads (dated 5.92). Illustrated. Elegantly hand-bound in blue half oasis morocco leather over cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, publisher's original cloth spine bound in at rear. Internally clean, exterior unmarked. A.... More
Treasure Island.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. [Illustrated classic] FIRST DULAC EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xiv; 15-256. Contains 12, full page, colour illustrations by Dulac, including frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth variant (a brown buckram binding was also produced), with titles and trim in black. Minor edgewear, backstrip sunned, commemorative Robert Louis Stevenson... More
The Hills of Home, With the Pentland Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson, An Old Scotch Gardener, The Manse, A Pastoral, and The Pentland Rising.
London: T. N. Foulis, 1913. [Literary Essays]. FIRST EDITION of MacLean's work, with the essays by Stevenson reprinted from editions by Chatto and Windus. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.260 [12]. With 12 chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, by Robert Hope. In publisher's limp suede covers with gilt titles to spine... More
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