"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
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, but a quality binding. Contnets clean, exterior as new. Stevenson's swashbuckling tale of highland rebellions, basis for the 1971 film starring Michael Caine and Trevor Howard. Item #74034
Prideaux; A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (1917). [Item 18]. Grolier Club Exhibition Catalogue [79].
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