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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 Wrong Box.
London: Cassell and Company, 1889. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION, noted in several important crime checklists. Crown octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[iv]; 283; [1], blank; [16], catalogue (dated January 1889). Publisher's red cloth, titled in black and gilt, 'swan' patterned endpapers. Internally clean, armorial bookplate and signature of Wyville Thomson, spine..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top..... 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. [Adventure novel] 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..... More
Catriona. A Sequel to 'Kidnapped' Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1893. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 371; [18], catalogue dated 8/93. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, floral-patterned pale green endpapers. Bookplate of H.P. Kingham, Alexandria. Some minor foxing within, front hinge cracked, cloth with a few minor marks..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of the Beach of Falesa, the Bottle Imp, and the Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell and Company. 1893. FIRST EDITION, 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..... 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. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Quite roughly cut in places..... 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
Treasure Island.
London: Cassell and Company, 1883. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, EARLIEST ISSUE TEXT. Octavo (18 x 13cm), with frontispiece map lettered in colour, pp.viii; 292. Bound without ads. With the following points: 'Dead Man's Chest' not capitalised on p. 2; No 'a' on p. 63 line 6; number '7' missing from..... More
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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
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
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. [Children's] First Illustrated Edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 136; [8]; 16 of advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, showing a child holding a plant pot from which roses sprout, surrounding a view of a formal garden, with gilt titles and further decoration to spine..... 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. A 4cm repaired tear to pp.111 / 112..... 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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