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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
London: Chatto & Windus Piccadilly 1887. Pp. 296 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "September 1886". Blue cloth with a flower-spray in black and 5 silver stars gilt spine lettering. Interior clean and crisp. Covers lightly soiled gently rubbed. Contains: The Merry Men; Will o' the Mill; Markheim; Thrawn Janet; Olalla; and The Treasure of Franchard. Prideaux 20. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small Octavo. Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26183
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Familiar Studies of Men and Books
London: Chatto & Windus Piccadilly 1882. Pp. xxvii 397 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "November 1881". Sage-green cloth decorated in brown and black with a quasi-Japanese style motif decorated spine with gilt lettering blue floral endpapers. Gift inscription to front blank: "To Mr. Wamsley / from Harry M. Bates / A small expression / of respect and affection" else interior clean and bright. Covers lightly soiled small abrasion on lower edge of rear cover repaired with matching dye else very good clean copy. Contents: Victor Hugo's Romances; Some Aspects of Robert Burns; Walt Whitman; Henry David Thoreau: His Character ad Opinions; Yoshida-Torajiro; Francois Villon Studen Poet and House-breaker; Charles of Orleans; Samuel Pepys; John Knox and his Relations to Women. Prideaux 7. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26184
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Unique Artist's Design Binding
New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1930. Interior fine crisp and clean with 8 black & white illustrations by S.G. Hulme Beaman as well as several illustrations within the text. Rebound by book artist Don Taylor in a magnificent design binding. Black leather binding inlayed with wood veneer to both upper and lower covers into which a window has been cut out in the shape of a parallelogram leaving a small bevelled black leather frame inside the window is paper smeared with black reflective silver and metallic copper the endpapers are of the same black smeared paper gilt-stamped title on a matching black leather label. Housed in a striking box made of black cloth with a latched wooden door each door bearing a window of black cloth covered with a wooden lattice. Once unlatched one door folds open revealing a felt-lined wooden drawer with a brass-like pull-drawer handle. The whole book and cabinet is then stored in a sturdy natural-linen covered clamshell box gilt-stamped title to spine on a piece of the wood veneer in the shape of a parallelogram. An outstanding one-of-a-kind binding. Hardcover in Clamshell Box. Fine. Illus. by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Octavo. Dodd, Mead & Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26061
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Silverado Squatters
London: Chatto & Windus Piccadilly 1883. Pp. 254 32 - publ. catalogue dated October 1883. Sage-green cloth brown and gilt cover illustrations gilt spine lettering black coated endpapers frontispiece by Joseph D. Strong Mrs. Stevenson's son-in-law. Covers and spine ends very slightly rubbed spine a tad darkened mild foxing to prelims and fore-edge else very good copy with the October 1883 publisher's catalogue denoting the earliest issue of this book. Prideaux 9 p. 24. . First Published Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25769
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Treasure Island
London Paris & New York: Cassell & Company Limited 1883. Original brown silk-grained cloth bordered in blind black coated endpapers gilt spine lettering issued in various colours without priority. Pp. viii 292 followed by 4 pages of publisher's advertisements numbered 5G-783. Original frontispiece map in 4 colours with tissue guard. Bookplate of noted British bibliophile Eric S. Quayle to front pastedown covers lightly soiled very slight lean upper corner lightly bruised paper over rear joint split which has been somewhat crudely repaired housed in a custom highly durable clamshell box of brown/maroon pebbled cloth with inset mounted copy of map and lettered in gilt double gilt-stamped leather spine labels. A very good copy with first edition points as follows: P. 2 & 7: "deadman's chest" not capitalized; P. 40 last two lines: the "v" in vain and also the "m" in the word miscreant above is broken; P. 63: "A" missing in line 6; P. 83: the "8" in pagination is supposed to be missing here it is present; P. 127: "7" is missing from page number; P. 178: full-stop missing following "opportunity" in 4th paragraph; P. 197 Line 3: "worse" for worst. Prideaux 11. First Edition First Issue. Hard Cover. Very Good. Cassell & Company, Limited Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25771
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter's Tale
London Paris New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company Limited 1889. Pp. viii 332 4 - publ. adverts 16-page publ. catalogue dated 5G.7.89 & 5B.7.89. Red cloth lettered in black ornamented with figures on the cover and crossed swords on the spine with gilt lettering. Covers dust soiled and darkened otherwise very good copy with previous owner's signature in pencil to half-title. Prideaux 27 p.67. First Published Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Cassell & Company, Limited
Bookseller reference : 25767
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Father Damien. An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu from Robert Louis Stevenson
London: Chatto and Windus 1890. Reprinted from 'The Scots Observer'. 19.5 cm x 13 cm. Pp. 30. Taupe wrappers printed in black sewn binding. Covers lightly soiled spinestrip chipped with a 13 cm slit at the upper joint nicks to the tips minor spotting to first and last else a good copy of the scarce first trade. . First Trade Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 12 Mo. Chatto and Windus Paperback
Bookseller reference : 25050
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Familiar Epistle in Verse and Prose
London: Printed for Private Distribution 1896. "The Impression of this book is limited to a few copies for Private Circulation only." Per Prideaux #47 "27 copies only were printed all upon Whatman's handmade paper. The volume forms one of The Ashley Library Series of Privately Printed Books." Pp. 17 Ashley Library colophon a handwritten facsimile of one of the stanzas printed on Japanese vellum as frontispiece with facsimile signature at conclusion. Original cream-coloured Japanese vellum paper boards gilt spine lettering. Interior clean and crisp. Covers and spinestrip dust soiled small stain to rear board spine gilt slightly dulled. Overall a very good copy of a scarce item. Prideaux 47. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. Printed for Private Distribution Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25057
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
My Desire; and Ideal Thoughts By Griggs Child Bronte Emerson Carlyle and Dresser
New York: Dodge Publishing Company ca. 1905 12-leaves printed rectos only each with illustrated initial in red. Mounted frontispiece. Bound in card with illustrated beige wrapper side-stabbed and tied with brown ribbon. Covers browned slightly stained chipped at head of spine and head of rear panel near spine corners nicked front flap of wrapper detached at the flap fold but present tide-lines at the bottom corner of first three blank leaves. Overall still a very good copy. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 16 Mo. Dodge Publishing Company, [ca. 1905] Paperback
Bookseller reference : 25047
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Master of Ballantrae. Woman's World Series. No. 5. December 1896
New York: J.H. Plummer 1896. Pp. 192. Salmon-coloured printed paper wrappers advertising on rear cover and inside front and rear cover bound with two staples. Minor nicks to edges covers have been re-adhered to text block chipping to spine ends 4 cm slit at bottom joint of front cover pages tanned though still supple. Overall a very good copy of this rare edition. . Soft Cover. Very Good. Small Octavo. Magazine. J.H. Plummer Paperback
Bookseller reference : 25633
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
On the Choice of a Profession
London: Chatto & Windus 1916. 13.5 cm x 9.5 cm. Pp. 28 deckled edges title-page in red and black. Grey boards backed with deep violet cloth. Very good clean copy housed in a soiled dust wrapper with chips to the tips and spine ends. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 24 Mo. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25663
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Morality of the Profession of Letters
Gouverneur New York: Brothers of the Book 1899. #195 of an edition limited to 299 copies. Privately printed on American hand-made paper for Laurence C. Woodworth. Pp. 47. Black buckram boards gilt spine lettering uncut. First separate edition. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 24 Mo. Brothers of the Book Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25665
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751; How He Was Kidnapped and Cast Away; His Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; .
New York: The Heritage Press 1938. Illustrated with colour wood engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller with an Introduction by Christopher Morley. Illustrated light blue cloth gilt spine lettering on a painted red spine panel map endpapers. Lacks slipcase. . Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Hans Alexander Mueller. Octavo. The Heritage Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25658
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Christmas at Sea
Hartford CT: Privately Printed Storrs & Bement Company 1939. Unknown limitation printed as a Christmas gift for the friends of W.N. Stetson Jr. 13.3 cm x 8.6 cm. Pp. 12. Blue printed paper covered boards. Covers slightly dust soiled closed slit to paper over spine although still very tight otherwise a very good copy. Limited Edition. Original Boards. Very Good Plus. 24 Mo. Privately Printed, Storrs & Bement Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25662
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Pentland Rising. A Page of History 1666 with Memorials of Robert Louis Stevenson
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son Printed at Glasgow Univ. Press N.d. 1914 1914. 8.5 cm x 5.5 cm miniature book pp. 128 16 - publ. catalogue 19 full-page illustrations. Full green calf binding ornate gilt-stamped spinestrip top edge bright gilt gilt lettering to upper cover sepia coloured photo illustrated endpapers. Beautiful fine copy. Hard Cover. Fine. 48mo. Miniature. David Bryce & Son, Printed at Glasgow Univ. Press, N.d. [1914] Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25659
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Island Nights' Entertainments
London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited The Casket Library N.d. Pp. xiv 177. Navy-blue cloth bright gilt spine lettering grey coated endpapers. Very good copy housed in a price-intact dust soiled dust jacket with minor nicks to the tips and spine ends. R.L. Stevenson Copyright postage stamp to front pastedown. . Hard Cover. Very Good. Small Octavo. Blackie & Son Limited, The Casket Library, N.d. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25672
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Kidnapped. Being the Adventures of David Balfour; How He Was Kidnapped and Cast Away; His Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; .
London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1930. First of this edition. Oatmeal cloth with image in blue and black and gilt lettering to front board and spine top edge gilt illustrated endpapers 12 tipped-in colour plates and a folding map R.L. Stevenson copyright postage stamp to rear pastedown along with the small ticket of The Times Book Club. Near fine copy in a tanned dust jacket with nicks to the spine ends. A very nice copy. . First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Rowland Hilder. Stout Octavo. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
Bookseller reference : 25652
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter's Tale
London New York Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company Ltd. N.d. Pp. viii 304. School Edition with a glossary and Exercises in the rear. 4 full-page illustrations in black & white. Half red calf and red cloth boards gilt decorated spine with gilt-stamped black leather spine label school crest to front cover stamped in gilt marbled endpapers all edges marbled. Slightly scuffed else very good handsome copy. Hardcover. Very Good. Cassell and Company Ltd., N.d.
Bookseller reference : 25671
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Crabbed Age & Youth & Other Essays
Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1907. 13.7 cm x 7.2 cm. Pp. 115 unopened. Stiff card with printed parchment self-wrappers and lettered in red. Original fine white glassine wrapper. Prideaux p.15. . First Thus. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 24 Mo. Thomas B. Mosher Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25668
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Flight of the Princess
Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1912. 13.7 cm x 7.2 cm. Pp. 93 unopened. Stiff card with printed parchment self-wrappers and lettered in red. Original fine white glassine wrapper. Prideaux p.34. . First Thus. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 24 Mo. Thomas B. Mosher Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25667
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
An Apology for Idlers and Other Essays
Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1908. 13.3 cm x 7 cm. Pp. 96. Limp green leather with titles and a celtic decoration in gilt to upper cover and a type of caduceus in gilt to rear cover. Very good copy. Second Edition. Limp Leather. Very Good. 24 Mo. Thomas B. Mosher Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25660
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Familiar Studies of Men and Books
London: Chatto & Windus 1910. Pp. 277. Vellum backed green linen cloth gilt filigree decorated spine with green inlays gilt-stamped brown oval leather spine label top edlge gilt. Covers slightly dusty endpapers browned as usual two small ink signatures of previous owners otherwise a very good clean copy. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25669
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
A Child's Garden of Verses
New York: Little Leather Library Corporation N.d. ca. 1920 Miniature Book. 9.6 cm x 7.5 cm. Pp. 96. Green leatherette. Nicks at spine ends title- and last page quite browned from abutting the covers the rest of interior very good and clean. . Very Good. 48 Mo. Miniature. Little Leather Library Corporation, N.d. [ca. 1920] hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25664
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Familiar Studies of Men and Books
London: Chatto & Windus Printed By Ballantyne Hanson & Co. Edinburgh & London 1910. Fine-Paper Edition. Pp. xx 277 title-page in red and black. Full vellum with ornate gilt decoration to both upper and lower covers gilt decorated spine top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers ribbon bookmark. Bookplate of Zella Evelyn Leather-Culley on front pastedown see Burke's Peerage inscription on verso of free endpaper: " Z.E.L.C. / from / HMW & F.E.W / Xmas 1910." Covers lightly soiled browning to spine and around margins otherwise very good copy. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Chatto & Windus, Printed By Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Edinburgh & London Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25692
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
A Christmas Sermon
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons D.B. Updike The Merrymount Press Boston 1900. Pp. iv 25. Deluxe publisher's binding in full limp red leather with ornate gilt floral border surrounding gilt lettering top edge gilt. Slightly scuffed and soiled tiny bookseller stamp of Wm Tyrrell Toronto to front free endpaper else a very good clean copy. Prideaux 33 p.80. . First Separate Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons, (D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston) Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25695
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Daisies from a Child's Garden of Verses
Boston: DeWolfe Fiske & Co. 1898. Pp. unpaginated 36. Stunning bright chromolithographs throughout. Padded moire cloth with colour illustration and lettered in gilt white moire endpapers. Inscribed on front blank: "To / Edith Hewitt / from / Margaret Churchill / 1901." Covers soiled and darkened edges scuffed spine ends started occasional smudge to interior else very good. Hard Cover. Very Good. 16 Mo. DeWolfe Fiske & Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25688
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
An Inland Voyage. With a Frontispiece By Walter Crane
London: Chatto & Windus 1913. Fine-Paper Edition. Pp. xiv 178 title-page in red and black. Full vellum with ornate gilt decoration to both upper and lower covers gilt decorated spine top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers ribbon bookmark. Covers lightly soiled browning to spine and around margins otherwise very good copy. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25693
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Fables
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1896. Pp. viii 92. Gilt-framed green buckram top edge gilt. Covers lightly soiled spine darkened very gently rubbed previous owner's neat signature to front blank occasional smudge in interior else very good copy. Prideaux 44 p. 95. . First Separate Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25690
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
A Lodging for the Night. A Story of Francis Villon
Portland Me: Thomas B. Mosher 1905. Edition of 425 copies on Japan vellum. Pp. 69 plain card covers with plain printed dust jacket. Covers lightly soiled else very good. . Third Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 24 Mo. Thomas B. Mosher Paperback
Bookseller reference : 25697
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS. Intro By Edwin Osgood Grover
Father Damien. An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu With Extracts from Three Private Letters
Boston: Alfred Bartlett The Cornhill Booklet 1900. Pp. 23 frontispice portrait. Grey cloth with black lettering. Covers soiled else a good copy. Hard Cover. Good Plus. 12 Mo. Alfred Bartlett, The Cornhill Booklet Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25685
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Poems. Including Underwoods Ballads Songs of Travel
London: Chatto & Windus 1909. Fine-Paper Edition. Pp. x 205 title-page in red and black. Full vellum with ornate gilt decoration to both upper and lower covers gilt decorated spine top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers ribbon bookmark. Bookplate of Zella Evelyn Leather-Culley on front pastedown see Burke's Peerage inscription on verso of free endpaper: "Xmas 1910 / Z.E.L.C. / from HMW & F.E.W." Covers lightly soiled browning to spine and around margins otherwise very good copy. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25691
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Weir of Hermiston. Some Unfinished Stories
London: William Heinemann Tusitala Edition 1924. Pp. xix 302. Blind-stamped blue cloth. Fading to spine and upper margin else very good clean copy. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. William Heinemann, Tusitala Edition Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25686
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Vailima Letters. Being Correspondence Addressed By Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin. November 1890-Octover 1894. In Two Volumes
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1896. 2 Volumes. Pp. 281/275 frontispiece portrait etched by W. Stang after a photo by Falk of Sydney / frontispiece photo portrait. Gilt-framed green buckram top edge gilt others untrimmed gilt spine lettering. Slightly scuffed and soiled else very good set. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25704
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Underwoods
London: Chatto & Windus Piccadilly 1887. Pp. xv 138 32 - publ. List dated July 1887. Dark slate grey cloth gilt spine lettering black coated endpapers. Covers slightly soiled and scuffed corners and spine ends a tad rubbed foxing to edges only occasional light pencil lines in margins otherwise very good. Prideaux 23. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25706
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Father Damien
London / Toronto: The Musson Book Co. N.d. 19 Pp. xi 37. Very light sea-green self wrappers with mounted colour illustration frontispiece portrait. Very good copy. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. The Musson Book Co., N.d. [19??] Paperback
Bookseller reference : 25702
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Other Fables
London New York Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans Green & Co 1913. 8vo. Pp. 247. Publisher's black cloth bevelled edges top edge gilt. Very lightly scuffed else very good copy. New Impression. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Longmans, Green & Co
Bookseller reference : 25717
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS. Intro By Allan Massie
Moral Emblems & Other Poems written and Illustrated with Woodcuts by Robert Louis Stevenson. First Printed at the Davos Press By Lloyd Osbourne and with a Preface by the Same
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1921. Pp. xxi 80 woodcut illustrations throughout. Linen-backed grey boards with mounted illustrated paper title label printed paper label to spine. Covers soiled and slightly foxed foxing to first and last p. ix/x carelessly opened with tear to the fore-edge margin whitespace else very good copy. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25710
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
A Christmas Sermon
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons D.B. Updike The Merrymount Press Boston 1900. 18 cm x 11 cm. Pp. iv 25. Green cloth backstrip over printed blue paper boards. A little rubbing to the edges bookplate of George Danforth Huntington handwritten on edge of bookplate: "H.H. from I.R.F." else a very good clean copy. Prideaux 33 p.80. . First Separate Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons, (D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston) Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25709
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
A Child's Garden of Verses
London: Longmans Green and Co. 1885. Pp. x 101. Blue silk-grained cloth boards with bevelled edges 'The Sign of the Ship' gilt-stamped to upper left of front cover gilt spine lettering top edge gilt others untrimmed. Very very slight soiling to covers with just a bit of rubbing to the joints spine ends and tips front free endpapers tanned as usual edges a bit dusty interior clean and bright. A lovely collectible copy. Prideaux 14. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus. 12 Mo. Longmans, Green, and Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25754
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Edinburgh
London: Seeley Service & Co. 1923. Pp. 160. 8 full-colour plates tipped-on to taupe card stock. Tan cloth illustrated with red Scottish lion on a black thistle-patterned decoration and gilt castle motif black & red cover letteing gilt spine lettering with ornate decoration in red and black. Corners slightly bumped else clean crisp copy. . Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by James Heron. Quarto. Seeley, Service & Co.
Bookseller reference : 25730
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Treasure Island. Illustrated By Warwick Goble
New York: The Macmillan Company September 1923. Pp. 312 18 plates in black & white and colour. Blue cloth circular cover illustration and lettering stamped in black gilt spine lettering illustrated endpapers. Spine a little darkened with head of spine started previous owner's signature and date to front pastedown else very good clean crisp copy. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Warwick Goble. Octavo. The Macmillan Company, September Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25432
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS. Selected and Edited By GBSTERN G. B.
R.L.S. An Omnibus
London / Toronto / Melbourne .: Cassell and Company 1950. Pp. xxxvi 731. Black cloth gilt spine lettering in price-intact dust jacket. Top corners slightly bruised front hinge cracked previous owner's ink signature to front pastedown dust jacket slightly soiled and browned with nicks to the spine ends else good plus clean copy in good plus dust jacket. Hard Cover. Good Plus./Good Plus. Octavo. Cassell and Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25463
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Edinburgh. With 24 Illustrations in Colour By James Heron
London: Seeley Service & Co. 1912. Pp. 208. 24 full-colour plates tipped-on to dark green card stock with captioned tissue guards. Grey cloth illustrated with red Scottish lion on a black thistle-patterned decoration and gilt castle motif on sky-blue shield gilt cover letteing gilt spine lettering with ornate decoration in red and black top edge gilt others untrimmed. Upper corners slightly bumped else clean crisp copy. . Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by James Heron. Quarto. Seeley, Service & Co.
Bookseller reference : 25461
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Poems and Ballads
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1896. Pp. xv 367 photogravure portrait frontispiece. In a Margaret Armstrong signed binding of olive green silk cloth with gilt-tooled frame surrounding cover title within an ornate gilt design gilt title and decoration to spine top edge gilt others untrimmed ribbon bookmark. Light tanning around margins of covers spine faded to light brown slightly soiled else very good clean crisp copy. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25458
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
A Child's Garden of Verses
London / New York: John Lane The Bodley Head / Charles Scribner's Sons 1898. Slightly shorter than the first edition of 1896. Pp. xiv 137 3 - small woodcuts 12 - publ. catalogue of children's books dated 1898 nearly 100 illustrations by Charles Robinson. Green ribbed cloth with ornate gilt decorated spine charming delicate Art Nouveau gilt-stamped illustrations to both upper and lower covers all edges gilt. Covers lightly soiled spine ends starting bit of spotting to prelims and endpages paper over front hinge cracked repair to paper over rear hinge gift inscription to front free endpaper in pencil and red ink else a very good copy. Prideaux 14 - 1896 Illustrated Edition p.39. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Charles Robinson. 12 Mo. John Lane, The Bodley Head / Charles Scribner's Sons
Bookseller reference : 25443
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Underwoods
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1887. Author's Edition. Pp. xv 138 light brown cloth over sandy-brown boards brown cover lettering gilt spine lettering top edge gilt. Covers soiled corners and edges rubbed previous owner's contemporary ink signature to front free endpaper otherwise very good. Prideaux 23 for first UK edition. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25552
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Ticonderoga. A Legend of the West Highlands
New York: Printed for the Fort Ticonderoga Museum 1923. Octavo. Pp. 28. frontispiece 5 full-page black & white illustrations and one map. Blue paper over boards printed paper cover label. Light rubbing to tips several light spots on the copyright and adjoining page else a very good clean copy. . Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Printed for the Fort Ticonderoga Museum
Bookseller reference : 25502
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Ballads
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1890. Pp. 85. Gilt tooled and decorated light brown cloth boards gilt spine lettering top edge gilt. Minor dust soiling else near fine clean bright copy. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25405
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Familiar Studies of Men and Books
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1888. Pp. 366 8 - publ. catalogue red cloth gilt spine lettering grey coated endpapers. Previous owner's signature to front pastedown covers slightly soiled spine browned tips gently bruised chipping to spine ends otherwise a very good copy. Prideaux 7 for 1882 first edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25529
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STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Prayers Written at Vailima. With an Introduction By Mrs. Stevenson
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1922. Pp. xiv 19. Grey boards with title "Prayers" and "R.L.S." to front cover ornamental capital "P" in red. Minor rubbing to tips else near fine. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 12 Mo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25546
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