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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, armorial bookplate and signature of Wyville Thomson, spine..... More
Kidnapped, Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.
London: Cassell & Company, 1887. [Scottish Historical Fiction] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 311 [21]. Publisher's catalogue dated July 1887. With a large coloured folding map as a frontispiece, and 16 engraved plates by Hole. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to 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 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
Catriona. A Sequel to 'Kidnapped' Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad.
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
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
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [and] Autobiography of a Thief. The Magnet Series, No. 13.
New York, NY: Hurst & Company, July 1892. [Strange Tales] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[2] 67 [3]; 211-243 [7]. Publisher's paper covers, stapled twice, priced at 25c. Heavily browned throughout. Rear cover lost. Heavy rubbing to spine, with some chips, tears, and large losses to front cover. Rubbing..... More
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. [and Fables].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1916]. [Classic Literature] SIXPENNY NOVEL. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.144. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers. Heavily rubbed, worn and browned. Black ink ownership and addition to front cover, with matching ownership to title page, dated June 1916. A rare survival of an ephemeral item..... More
Treasure Island.
London: Cassell and Company, 1883. [Classic 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' hand-stamped..... 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
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
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
Scotch Passion: An Anthology of Scottish Erotic Poetry.
London: Robert Hale, 1982. [Scottish Love Poetry Anthology] FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Anne Ransom, not priced. Jacket toned, otherwise crisp and clean. Near fine. A fine selection of Scottish erotic verse from the..... More
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