‎Stevenson robert louis‎

‎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

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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

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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

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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: 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

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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

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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

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‎STEVENSON Robert Louis‎

‎SIGNED CHECK BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON‎

‎Check signed drawn on RLS’s 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. Hardcover. Very Good. Precedes the UK edition. Original brown cloth blocked in gilt. Slight spine lean but a nice copy. Published posthumously A.T. Quiller-Couch wrote the final six chapters consulting notes and outlines left by Stevenson. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books‎

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‎STEVENSON Robert Louis‎

‎ST. IVES; Being the adventures of a French prisoner in England‎

‎NY: Scribner's 1897. First Edition. 8vo pp. 438. This edition preceded the 1898 UK edition. Spine darkened VG. As pointed out in an editorial note A. T. Quiller-Couch wrote the final six chapters from notes and outlines left by Stevenson. Beinecke 654; Princeton 68. Scribner's unknown books‎

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‎Stevenson Robert Louis‎

‎STEVENSON'S WORKSHOP‎

‎Boston: The Bibliophile Society 1921. Small quarto. Three quarter parchment and cloth. Engraved colophon and 29 facsimile plates. Bookplate otherwise fine in lightly worn slipcase and chemise. First edition. Edited with transcriptions and commentary by William P. Trent. One of 450 copies printed on Japan vellum. Foreword by. The Bibliophile Society hardcover books‎

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‎STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS‎

‎Stevenson's Workshop with twenty-nine MS. facsimiles. Edited by William P. Trent‎

‎Boston: Bibliophile Society 1921. Edition ltd. to 450 copies small 4to pp. 3-63 plus facsimiles inserted engraved limitation-p. and frontispiece; a near fine copy in orig. red cloth backed in paper vellum. Reproductions of select pages from Stevenson's manuscripts with significant variants and/or unpublished versions of his printed works. <br/><br/> Bibliophile Society hardcover books‎

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‎Stevenson Robert Louis‎

‎STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE‎

‎1886. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1886. One page undated ads. Original salmon cloth. First English Edition which according to McKay was published on 9 January 1886 -- four days after the American one Longmans had intended to publish it in December 1885 but the bookstalls were already so full of Christmas numbers that the trade "would not look at it". The story of how RLS came to write this classic tale is by now well known: He was one night in the middle of a nightmare when Fanny alarmed by his disturbance woke him. Louis complained with irritation that she had interrupted a 'fine bogy tale.' Seizing his pen the following day he began to write down the story he had dreamed. Initially it was the Gothic horror of the story that excited him and he produced a first draft at great speed reading the story triumphantly to Fanny when he finished. But Fanny wasn't happy with the story. She felt that it could be more than a Poe-like crawler that it could be more morally pointed than Louis had fashioned it. Certainly in this case it can only be said that her comments did the story and Louis considerable good. Angrily the first draft was cast into the fire and he started again this time producing the version of STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE that we know. Calder What an imagination! -- hard to believe that this is the same writer who came up with another book published by Longmans Green just one year earlier and here promoted on the ad leaf: A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES. This is a very good-plus copy of what was a very cheaply-produced book: there is minor soil as usual for this light salmon cloth and slight bubbling of the cloth due to the semi-flexible nature of the boards. The original patterned endpapers are fine and there is no foxing on the leaves within. McKay Beinecke/Yale 348; Princeton 30A copy 1. Housed in a handsome calf-backed slipcase with leather label with inner chemise. unknown books‎

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‎Stevenson Robert Louis‎

‎Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1886. First Edition. Fine. First American edition first printing; precedes the London edition by four days. Bound in publisher's greenish-gray cloth stamped in gilt top edge gilt. Fine with trivial touches of wear to cloth name erased from top of title page pages lightly toned. A fantastic copy of the of Stevenson's Gothic horror classic centering around the interplay between one man's unpredictable duality of character--outwardly good but sometimes shockingly evil. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books‎

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‎Stevenson Robert Louis‎

‎Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‎

‎London: Longmans Green & Co 1886. First Edition/First State. Original Wraps. Very Good textblock Fine. Light even toning/soiling to the wrappers publication date corrected 1886 else tight bright and unmarred. Original printed wrappers red ink text black ink text and decorative elements advert at rear. 12mo. 141pp. Early catalogue clipping laid in. <br/><br/>One of the unspecified number of copies which had the date hand-corrected in ink by the publisher from 1885 to 1886. Initially scheduled to be released for Christmas 1885 it was delayed until 1886 due to the glut of new work being released for the holidays. <br />"If Bram Stoker's Dracula leaves one with the sensation of having been struck down by a massive 400-page wall of horror then Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is like the sudden mortal jab of an ice pick." Stephen King. Longmans, Green & Co paperback books‎

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‎STEVENSON Robert Louis‎

‎Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‎

‎Norwalk: Easton 1980. hardcover. fine. Wilson Edward A. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson. 123 pages tall slim 8vo gilt-stamped brown leather all edges gilt fuchsia silk moire endpapers. Norwalk: Easton Press 1980. A fine copy.<br/><br/> 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series.<br/><br/> Easton unknown books‎

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‎STEVENSON Robert Louis‎

‎Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‎

‎<p>First English edition first issue. Thin octavo. One page of publisher's advertisements at beginning and 2 pages at end. Front wrapper printed in red and blue with publication date altered from 1885 to 1886 as issued. Original beige wrappers bound in. 3/4 gilt stamped red morocco over red cloth spine with raised bands and gilt stamped floral device within a gilt ruled compartment covers ruled in gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. Fine. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Longmans, Green, and Co. hardcover books‎

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‎Stevenson Robert Louis‎

‎Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.‎

‎London: Longmans Green & Co 1886. First English edition of Stevenson's classic book. Octavo original cloth olive green floral endpapers. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplate to the pastedown. "If Bram Stoker's Dracula leaves one with the sensation of having been struck down by a massive 400-page wall of horror then Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is like the sudden mortal jab of an ice pick" Stephen King. Leaping to life out of a "fine bogey dream" from which the author's wife abruptly awakened him Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde proved "immediately and lastingly Stevenson's most famous story" Baugh et al. 1499. "Published as a 'shilling shocker' a form at that time in fashion it became instantly popular; was quoted from a thousand pulpits; was translated into German French and Danish; and the names of its two chief characters have passed into the common stock of proverbial allusion" DNB. "It is a Faustian moral fable which takes the form of a tale of mystery and horror. It is the prototype of all stories of multiple personality transformation and possession. The psychological power of the writing including Jekyll's agonies is patent" Clute & Nicholls 1165. "When we thrill to the shock and horror of the story I think it is because we all at least to some degree have been torn by Jekyll's internal conflict. When we recoil in terror from the selfish savagery of Mr. Hyde I think it is because we fear our own secret selves" Jack Williamson. It is the basis for many adaptations to the screen most notably in 1931 starring Fredric March and in 1941 featuring Spencer Tracy Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Longmans, Green & Co hardcover books‎

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