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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 Wrecker.
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
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, inside paper joints parted, and signature of Wyville..... 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
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. [Children's Poetry] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[1] x; 101 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, publisher's gilt imprint to upper board, gilt titles to spine. Bevelled edges. Top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Faint and infrequent spotting throughout, heavy toning to endpapers. Ownership inscription..... More
The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Introduction by Joe Hill. Foreword by Leslie S. Klinger.
New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 2022. [Classic Strange Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 141 [3]. Number 179 of 250 copies thus, SIGNED by contributors Leslie S. Klinger and Joe Hill. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. Publisher's quarter binding with black leather-effect spine blocked..... More
New Arabian Nights.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1882. [Short stories] FIRST US EDITION, Holt's leisure hour series. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.viii; 329 [1]. Publisher's pictorial yellow cloth, titles and designs in black to boards and spine. Gilt titles to spine. Publisher's advertisements as endpapers. Internally toned due to cheap..... More
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. [Classic Strange Tale] FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8]; 141; [1], blank; [1], ad; [1], blank. Publisher's buff paper wraps titled and decorated in blue and red. inside front cover advertises Longmans magazine/Walter Besant; advertising leaf at rear lists the..... More
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. [Classic Strange Tale] Vintage reprint in the same format as the first edition. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8]; 141; [1], blank. Sympathetically rebound in marbled paper wraps with printed title label. Contents clean, edges very slightly toned, covers as new. The classic mystery crime..... More
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Illustrations by Mervyn Peake.
London: The Folio Society, 1948. [Classic Strange Tale] FIRST PEAKE EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.148. With duotone illustrations. Bound in modern black half morocco with contrasting red morocco gilt-lettered title label to spine, marbled paper-covered sides, original cloth covers preserved at rear. Contents clean, exterior unmarked. Presented in an..... More
The Works of R.L. Stevenson. 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, 1920. [Literature] FINELY BOUND SET. Complete in 10 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 38cm). Each volume with a black and white frontispiece. Contemporary burgundy half morocco for BRENTANO'S, with raise bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
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
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. [Classic Strange Tale] First Photoplay edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.234; [12], ads. With seven duotone illustrations from the Oscar-winning Paramount film. Publisher's blue cloth decorated in red. Top edge tinted red. Contents clean, no inscriptions, small area of browning to some advert leaves..... More
Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.
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
Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.
London: Cassell and Co., 1886. [Adventure classic] FIRST EDITION, this is the corrected text issue/printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 311; [1], advert; [16], catalogue dated 5G.7.86 and 5B.7.86. Folding map frontispiece printed in colour. Exquisitely bound in later half red calf, extra gilt, with marbled sides and endpapers. Unsigned..... More
The Black Arrow. A Tale of the Two Roses. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.
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
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