"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

See below our stock of Robert Louis Stevenson First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
London: Cassell & Company, 1892. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 427 [12]. Publisher's catalogue dated May 1892. With 12 half-tone illustrated plates by Hole and Metcalf, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Repair to split lower hinge. Spotting and..... More
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, inside paper joints parted, and signature of Wyville..... More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. [Children's] First Illustrated Edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 137 [23]. With wood engraved illustrations by Robinson throughout. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles and further decoration to spine, and gilt decoration to boards. All edges gilt. Contents clean, engraved bookplate to pastedown..... More
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
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1905. [Illustrated Children's Poetry] FIRST UK WILLCOX SMITH EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xii; 125 [1]. With 12 colour plates, as well as numerous in-text line drawings by Willcox Smith, as well as a colour-illustrated vignette title page. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt..... More
London: Cassell & Co., 1911. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST UK WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 273 [3]. With 14 colour plates, as well as an illustrated title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a colour illustration laid over upper. Dichromatic illustrated endpapers. Blind..... More
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. Ads partially unopened, some foxing within, pencil signature of respected Brighton architect Gilbert Murray Simpson (1869-1954), cloth with..... More
London: Cassell and Company, 1893. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 371 [19]. Catalogue dated 8/93. Publisher's dark blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and floral-patterned endpapers. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Careful repairs to split hinges. Light to moderate spotting throughout..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1909. [Essay collection] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[13] 299 [4]. Tan half calf with doubled marbled paper over boards. Gilt foliar tooling and titles to spine, raised bands. With doubled marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Interior is mostly clean with some spotting to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1889. [Comic Novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[II]; VII; [I], blank; 244; [II] blank; [IV], publisher's advertisements; [II], blank. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, title lettered in blue mounted on paper stamp. Toning to edges of textblock, spotting on..... More
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
London: Cassell and Co., 1886. [Adventure classic] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 311, with advertisements to the rear dated 5G.4.86 and 5B.4.86. Folding map frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles, black endpapers. Internally clean, owners ink-stamped name to first blank, cloth with a few marks to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1913]. [Adventure Fiction] FIRST WYETH EDITION. Quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xii; 289; [3], blank. With colour-illustrated title page and fourteen captioned colour plates, one folding map. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, colour plate laid down to upper, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. [Historical Fiction] FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.x; 320. With fourteen full-page colour illustrations. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and full size pictorial illustration laid down to upper board, colour printed illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More