Stevenson Robert Louis
PRAYERS WRITTEN AT VAILIMA.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MRS. STEVENSON
London: Chatto & Windus 1905. Early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. original stiff wrappers bound in. First British edition preceded by the U.S. edition. Spine extremities a bit rubbed bookplate faint ring-mark on upper board otherwise very good. BEINECKE 684. Chatto & Windus unknown books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT58337
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
PRAYERS WRITTEN AT VALIMA; as designed written out and illumiated by Alberto Sanforski
London: Chatto & Windus 1910. Sangorski. ca. 25p. unpaginated. Slim 4to inscription on end paper bound in some worn off-white boards;The whole reproduced in colors and gold after the original illuminated drawings by Alberto Sangorski. Ornate title and borders in various colors & gilt. Sangorski. A very good copy. Chatto & Windus unknown books
Bookseller reference : 56452
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
Prayers: Written at Vailima
London: Chatto & Windus 1910. Second. hardcover. very good. Ornate title and borders designed written out and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski. 20 pages small slim 4to white boards. London: Chatto & Windus 1910. Second Impression. Very good .<br/><br/> Chatto & Windus unknown books
Bookseller reference : 217098
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
Prayers: Written at Vailima
London: Chatto & Windus 1910. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. Introduction by Mrs. Stevenson. The whole reproduced in colors and gold after the original illuminated drawings by Alberto Sangorski. Ornate title and borders in various colors & gilt. Sangorski. unpaginated ca. 25p. printed on rectos only. Slim 4to off-white boards; d.w. London: Chatto & Windus 1910. First Edition.<br/><br/> The plain brown dust wrapper flaps have offset on the end-papers. Small ownership inscription otherwise fine.<br/><br/> Chatto & Windus unknown books
Bookseller reference : 215949
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
PRINCE OTTO
1885. STEVENSON Robert Louis. PRINCE OTTO. A Romance. London: Chatto & Windus 1885. First edition. 8vo. decorative olive cloth spine in gilt. Ex-library no external marks; three bookplates small catalogue description tipped into rfep discreet blind-stamp to title page. Binding is lightly skewed with some spotting to spine; slight bumps to opening corner and edge of rear board with touch of fraying to cloth at extremes. Mild soil to boards with a small patch of dampstain to rear board; dust soil to top-edge. Hinges starting. Prideaux 13. A reasonably good copy of an unusual Stevenson item offered with all faults:. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 61260
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Stevenson Robert Louis
PRINCE OTTO A ROMANCE
London: Chatto & Windus 1885. Early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. gilt 'RLS' device on both boards Spine extremities a bit worn bound without terminal catalogue otherwise very good. First edition. The first printing consisted of one thousand copies. PRIDEAUX 13. BEINECKE 328. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT58617
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Prince Otto . Third edition
London: Chatto & Windus 1886. 8vo pp. viii 300; previous owner's inscription on half-title binding a little skewed the whole slightly worn otherwise a very good copy in original brown buckram lettered in gilt on spine t.e.g. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 29601
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
Prince Otto Island Nights' Entertainment Father Damien
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later edition. Near fine with sticker inside front cover and faded spine. The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume IV. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 333539
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Prince Otto. A Romance
London: Chatto & Windus 1885. First Edition. viii 300 pp. 32 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter brown morocco t.e.g. Very fine. First Edition. viii 300 pp. 32 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 328 Chatto & Windus unknown books
Bookseller reference : 58512
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Prose Pieces Hitherto Unpublished
Boston: The Bibliophile Society 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. One Of 450 Unnumbered Copies Printed For Members Of The Society. In Publisher's slipcase with paper spine label. <br/><br/> The Bibliophile Society hardcover books
Bookseller reference : D16982
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
Providence & the Guitar
Seal harbor ME: High Loft 1985. A fine copy. 8vo. 50 3 pages. Printed by Nancy McCormick. Original blue cloth printed title labels on front cover and spine; board slipcase. Number 23 of 100 copies signed by Nancy McCormick from an edition of 125. Printed by Karen MacDonald. <br/><br/> High Loft hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 407010
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Publisher's Receipt Signed -- for "A Song of the Road"
1885. One 5"x8" printed receipt form with the date amount and applicable poems entered by secretarial hand then signed in full by Stevenson. London: Cassell & Company 23 December 1885. This receipt acknowledges payment of two guineas to Stevenson for "the use of my Poem entitled 'A Song of the Road' in 'The Magazine of Art' appearing in Part 63." This poem of seven four-line stanzas did indeed appear in the January 1886 issue of that magazine and was then in 1887 included in the Stevenson volume of verse UNDERWOODS published by Chatto & Windus. At the end of this poem in that volume it reads "Forest of Montargis 1878" -- for RLS wrote the first version of this poem after his 1875 walking tour around France. He then called it in his notebook now at Yale "The Gauger's Flute" -- as the poem is about a gauger excise officer who plays on his flute a refrain "Over the hills and far away" as a warning when he approaches his friend's hidden distillery. Interestingly this is one of the poems that RLS put to music late in life when he learned to play a "flageolet" -- essentially a pennywhistle with keys. The receipt is in near-fine condition with a couple of small edge-chips; the receipt was folded and notated by the publisher's staff for filing purposes. It provides a clear full signature of Stevenson. <br/><br/> unknown books
Bookseller reference : 14487
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Pulvis et umbra
Minneapolis 1929. Edition limited to 80 copies 9 x 5.5 cm pp. 4 43 3; orange paper-covered boards with gilt design backed in black cloth fine. Printed for "the fun of it" colophon. Rulon-Miller Wulling 5. <br/><br/> hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 52382
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Stevenson Robert Louis
R L S STEVENSON'S LETTERS TO CHARLES BAXTER
New Haven: Yale University Press 1956. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. First edition. Edited by DeLancey Ferguson and Marshall Waingrow. Top edge dust marked front endsheets tanned else very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a 2cm closed tear in the back panel. Yale University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT50649
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
R L S: AN OMNIBUS
LONDON CASSELL 1950. FIRST EDITION FINE. F. LONDON, CASSELL, 1950 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 6776
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
R. L. S. Stevenson's letters to Charles Baxter. Edited by DeLancey Ferguson and Marshall Waingrow
New Haven: Yale University Press 1956. First edition 8vo pp. xxvi 2 385; fine copy in a slightly worn jacket and with a small abrasion in the upper right corner of the front panel. <br/><br/> Yale University Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 29654
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
R. L. S. Stevenson's letters to Charles Baxter. Edited by DeLancey Ferguson and Marshall Waingrow
London: Oxford University Press 1956. First British edition 8vo pp. xxvi 2 385; fine copy in the jacket. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 29655
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
R.L. STEVESNON: MEMORIES
BOSTON LE ROY PHILLIPS N.D. ORIGINAL TAN BOARDS; NO DUST JACKET VERY GOOD. Hardcover. BOSTON, LE ROY PHILLIPS, N.D. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 158391
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
R.L.S. CLUB MEMORIAL FUND
EDINBURGH RLS CLUB 1925. EDINBURGH, RLS CLUB, 1925 unknown books
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Stevenson Robert Louis
R.L.S. in the South Seas An Intimate Photographic Record
Edinburgh: Mainstream 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Very good condition dust jacket. Introduction and edited by Alanna Knight. <br/><br/> Mainstream hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9015279 ISBN : 1851580131 9781851580132
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Stevenson Robert Louis
R.L.S. to J.M. Barrie: A Vailima Portrait
San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1962 First edition. Limited to 475 copies printed at The Grabhorn Press. Introduction by Bradford A. Booth. Quarto. 42pp. Four sketches by Isobel Strong page of facsimile manuscript. Cloth-backed decorated boards paper spine label. A very fine copy. Published here for the first time is a letter written by Robert Louis Stevenson a year before his death to his fellow Scottish author and friend J.M. Barrie. Grabhorn: 634. The Book Club of California hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2486
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Stevenson Robert Louis
R.L.S. to J.M. Barrie: A Vailima portrait. With an introduction by Bradford A. Booth
San Francisco: Book Club of California 1962. 4to pp. xiv 4 leaves of plates 15 1 facsimles; decorative boards over linen spine gilt-stamp paper spine label; white protective dustjacket slightly soiled; this edition limited to 475 copies and printed at the Grabhorn Press. Very good. <br/><br/> Book Club of California hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 36977
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Records of a Family of Engineers
London: Chatto & Windus 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo; 82293pp. Original navy blue buckram. Title printed in red & black with publisher's woodcut device. Bookplate: Liber Bibliothecae Graham Pollard. Fresh copy. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Bookseller reference : D17041
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Stevenson Robert Louis
RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS
London: Chatto & Windus 1912. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 82293pp. Title printed in red & black with publisher's woodcut device. Orig. dark blue cloth lightly soiled spine dulled. Bookplate. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 8246
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Records of a family of engineers
London: Chatto & Windus 1912. First separately printed edition 8vo pp. 8 229 2; title-p. printed in red and black; original dark blue buckram lettered in gilt on spine t.e.g.; generally fine throughout. Beinecke 696. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 29575
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Stevenson Robert Louis
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A CATALOGUE OF THE HENRY GERSTLEY STEVENSON COLLECTION THE STEVENSON SECTION OF THE MORRIS L. PARRISH COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN NOVELISTS AND ITEMS FROM OTHER COLLECTIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Princeton: Princeton University Library 1971. x4130pp. Quarto. Cloth. First edition. A fine copy without dust jacket. Princeton University Library hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT58399
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Stevenson Robert Louis
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A CATALOGUE OF THE HENRY GERSTLEY STEVENSON COLLECTION THE STEVENSON SECTION OF THE MORRIS L. PARRISH COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN NOVELISTS AND ITEMS FROM OTHER COLLECTIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Princeton: Princeton University Library 1971. x4130pp. Quarto. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from Gerstley. A fine copy without dust jacket. Princeton University Library hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT25816
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Robert Louis Stevenson Autographed Signed Letter.
One page autographed signed letter from Robert Louis Stevenson to his biographer Louise Imogen Guiney. Matted and framed with a portrait of Stevenson. The letter reads "Dear Miss Guiney I have waited long upon the muse for I thought your song should be answered in kind. But I must wait no longer and the verses refuse to come. Let me then thank you in prose for your book which I have read with pleasure and for your poem which gave me genuine pride. It is a strange thing to hear one's name from across all these waters so beautifully set to song. Robert Louis Stevenson. Skerryvore Bournemouth." The recipient of the letter Louise Imogen Guiney was an Irish-American poet and a cataloger at the Boston Public Library. In 1895 she and Alice Brown published a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1885 Guiney published a book of poetry titled The White Sail and Other Poems<em> </em>which included a poem The Indian Pipes dedicated to Stevenson. A very warm letter rare and desirable. The entire piece measures 19.5 inches by 27 inches. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist poet essayist and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island Kidnapped Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers including Jorge Luis Borges Bertolt Brecht Marcel Proust Arthur Conan Doyle Henry James Ernest Hemingway Rudyard Kipling Jack London Vladimir Nabokov J. M. Barrie and G. K. Chesterton unknown books
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Robert Louis Stevenson in Ten Volumes: Vol. I: Treasure Island; The Black Arrow; Vol. II: Kidnapped; David Balfour; Vol. III: The Wrecker; Vol IV. The Wrong Box; The Ebb-Tide; Island Nights Entertainments; Vol. V: The Master of Ballantrae; Weir of Hermiston; Poems; Vol. VI: St. Ives; John Nicholson; The Story of Alie; The Body Snatcher; Vol. VII: The Merry Men; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Prince Otto; Vol. VIII: New Arabian Nights; The Dynamiter; Vol. IX: Virginibus Puerisque; Memories and Portraits; Familiar Studies; Vol. X: An Inland Voyage; Travels with a Donkey; The Amateur Emigrant; The Silverado Squatters; Across the Plains
New York: Charles Scriber's Sons 1920. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jackets. Half inch tear to spine head and ink name on front free endpaper of volume one. Light stain on boards of volumes two and three. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper of eight volumes. 1920 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Ten volume set. Red cloth boards. Robert Louis Stevenson in Ten Volumes: Vol. I: Treasure Island; The Black Arrow; Vol. II: Kidnapped; David Balfour; Vol. III: The Wrecker; Vol IV. The Wrong Box; The Ebb-Tide; Island Nights Entertainments; Vol. V: The Master of Ballantrae; Weir of Hermiston; Poems; Vol. VI: St. Ives; John Nicholson; The Story of Alie; The Body Snatcher; Vol. VII: The Merry Men; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Prince Otto; Vol. VIII: New Arabian Nights; The Dynamiter; Vol. IX: Virginibus Puerisque; Memories and Portraits; Familiar Studies; Vol. X: An Inland Voyage; Travels with a Donkey; The Amateur Emigrant; The Silverado Squatters; Across the Plains. Charles Scriber's Sons hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2305229
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Catalogue of the Henry E. Gerstley Stevenson Collection the Stevenson Section of the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists and Items from Other Collections in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of the Princeton University Library
Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Library 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12" tall. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine in very good condition. Interior is clean with no markings. 130 pages. <br/><br/> Princeton University Library hardcover books
Bookseller reference : D17017
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
SAINT IVES
LONDON HEINEMANN 1898 1898. ORIGINAL BLACK CLOTH; NO DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. LONDON, HEINEMANN, 1898 hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 6777
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
San Francisco: A Modern Cosmopolis
San Francisco Book Club of California 1963. 1963. Oblong 4to. Preface by James D. Hart. Illustrated from photographs; drawings by Irene Pattinson. Original 1/2 orange cloth over brown pictorial boards with printed paper spine label. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. One of 430 copies printed by Adrian Wilson. BCC #114. Hardcover. [San Francisco] Book Club of California, 1963. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 6778
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
SEA FOGS
1907. STEVENSON Robert Louis. THE SEA FOGS. Western Classics No. One. With an introduction by Thomas Rutherford Bacon. The photogravure frontispiece after a painting by Albertine Randall Wheelan. San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Co. 1907. Limited edition 1/1000 copies on handmade paper. 12mo. slate grey paper-covered boards backed in white vellum lettered in gilt bevelled edges t.e.g. untrimmed silk bookmark bound in. Lightly rubbed with minimal soil to spine with a subtle bump to the crown. Short expertly-repaired edge-tear to one blank small erasure to rfep. A tight near fine copy in a slightly soiled and worn slipcase. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 72468
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Selected Essays
Regnery Gateway. Very Good. Stevenson Robert Louis. Selected Essays. Washington D.C.: Regnery Gateway ND. 300pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Regnery Gateway paperback books
Bookseller reference : USTESEL00AF
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Selected Letters Of Robert Louis Stevenson
New Haven: Yale University Press 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Edited by Ernest Mehew. Includes bibliographical references and index. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Fine condition in a fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Yale University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9004435 ISBN : 0300073763 9780300073768
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
SIGNED CHECK BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Check signed drawn on RLSs account at the Wilts & Dorset Banking Company August 10 1887 payable to Harry Wilson in the amount of one pound five schillings and six pence sterling. In excellent condition. <br/><br/> unknown books
Bookseller reference : D17713
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
Silverado Squatters
Ashland: Lewis Osborne 1972. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION number 323 of 500 copies. <br/><br/> Lewis Osborne hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 403644
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Stevenson Robert Louis
Silverado Squatters
Grabhorn Press 1952. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1952 Grabhorn Press reprint edition. Ex-library copy with library label to front free endpaper and outside spine stamp to bottom and top of end of pages. Envelope remnant to inner board. Paper of front free end page and front paste-down loose at spine. No dj. Very good condition. Grabhorn Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 106868
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
SOME LETTERS
NEW YORK INGALLS KIMBALL 1902 1902. BEIGE LINEN OVER BLUE BOARDS VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NEW YORK, INGALLS KIMBALL, 1902 hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 15060
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
Songs of Travel
London: Chatto and Windus 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First separate edition ads dated "Sept. 1896" Beinecke copy dated July 1896. 8vo. original navy blue buckram bevelled edges ix 85 32pp. Early attractive bookplate. A very sharp copy. <br/><br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover books
Bookseller reference : D17055
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STEVENSON Robert Louis
Songs of Travel
London: Chatto & Windus 1896. First. hardcover. near fine. 12mo original cloth. London: Chatto & Windus 1896.<br/><br/> First Separate Edition which consisted of 500 copies. Title page in red & black. 32 pages of ads.<br/><br/> Chatto & Windus unknown books
Bookseller reference : 220142
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Stevenson Robert Louis
SONGS OF TRAVEL AND OTHER VERSES
London: Chatto & Windus 1896. Early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. gilt 'RLS' device on each board original gilt cloth spine bound in at rear. First separate edition 500 copies printed preceded by inclusion in the Edinburgh edition. Bookplate bond without terminal catalogue otherwise very good. BEINECKE 643. PRIDEAUX 46. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT58351
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Stevenson Robert Louis
ST. IVES
1897. Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. 4 pp undated ads. Original brown cloth decorated in gilt and green. First Edition which consisted of 2675 copies preceding the 1898 English edition. Stevenson wrote this at intervals between January 1893 and October 1894 laying it aside six weeks before his death to work on WEIR OF HERMISTON. As pointed out in an editorial note A.T. Quiller-Couch wrote the final six chapters from notes and outlines left by Stevenson. Though the binding design does not bear her initials it is by Margaret Armstrong. This is a close-to-fine copy a few trifling marks on the rear cover. Beinecke Yale 654; Princeton 68; Gullans & Espey 244. <br/><br/> hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 13931
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Stevenson Robert Louis
St. Ives Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
London: Heinemann 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition. Original gray cloth. Slight spine lean minor foxing otherwise a nice copy. <br/><br/> Heinemann hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1686
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
St. Ives being the adventures of a French prisoner in England
London: William Heinemann 1898. First British edition 8vo pp. vi 2 312; slightly rubbed else a very good sound copy in original gray cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. Beinecke 655. <br/><br/> William Heinemann hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 29639
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
St. Ives being the adventures of a French prisoner in England
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. First edition 8vo pp. vi 2 438 4 ads; original decorative brown cloth stamped in gilt and green on upper cover and in gilt only on spine; slightly skewed else very good. The binding is designed by Margaret Armstrong. Gullans 210; Beinecke 654. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 29623
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Stevenson Robert Louis
ST. IVES BEING THE ADVENTURES OF A FRENCH PRISONER IN ENGLAND
London: Heinemann 1898. Early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. gilt 'RLS' device on both boards original cloth spine rubbed and upper panel bound in rear. Spine extremities a bit worn with small nick at crown otherwise very good. First British edition preceded by the New York edition published by Scribner. Stevenson had completed the first thirty chapters at the time of his death; the concluding chapters following Stevenson's outline were written by Quiller-Couch. PRIDEAUX 49:2. BEINECKE 655. Heinemann hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT58605
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Stevenson Robert Louis
St. Ives The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. First Edition. Very good in its original brown cloth covered boards with gilt text and a decoration on the spine and with gilt text above and below a Heraldic ornament with gilt text on a green background on the front board. A 12mo measuring 7 3/8 by 5 inches with light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and at the tips of the boards. 438 pages of text followed by a blank page and four pages of ads from the publisher. This US version of the title was released a year before the British version was published. Gerstley Stevenson Collection 68; Rosenbach 155; Prideaux49 Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
Bookseller reference : TB29109
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
St. Ives. Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
London: Heinemann 1898. First Edition - British. Minor offsetting to the endpapers else very good plus copy with some minor rubbing to the cloth at the edges and a few tiny tears at the top and bottom of the spine without dust jacket. At the time of his death Stevenson had left sent St. Ives unfinished and Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote the last few chapters to complete the work using Stevenson’s notes and the outline he had sent to S.S. McClure publisher of McClure’s Magazine which serialized Stevenson’s novel St. Ives prior to book publication. Heinemann hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 15342E
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
St. Ives. Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1897. First Edition preceding the English edition. Laid in is a one page Autograph Letter Signed by the author Robert Louis Stevenson to S.S. McClure publisher of McClure’s Magazine which serialized Stevenson’s novel St. Ives prior to book publication. Written from Valima in Samoa on September 7 1894 just weeks before Stevenson’s death on December 3rd. “.Pursuant to a note from Bunter I have the pleasure to send you an epitome of St. Ives. Without doubt it was a task! And I fear it will not increase the interest of any human being but you must be judge of that and employ it accordingly or not as your better wisdom shall suggest. The Magazine seems to me to go on swimmingly. Please remember me to your wife and the twins. Ever yours R.L. Stevenson.†At the time of his death Stevenson had left St. Ives unfinished and Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote the last few chapters to complete the work using Stevenson’s notes and the outline he had sent to McClure. Near fine bright copy in original cloth with one of Stevenson’s very last letters and a remarkably historic one showing that his efforts did indeed prove of great interest allowing one of his most interesting works to be completed. Charles Scribner’s Sons hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 12063J
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