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The cock shall crow...Music by Chas S Burnham [cover title]
New York: Hinds, Hayden, & Eldredge, 1914. Large 4to, pp. 4; sheet music; decorative self wrappers printed in red and grey; spine starting to split, edges toning, else good. Stevenson's ditty, originally published in the Christmas number of "Black and White," 1895, here arranged for voice and piano. Not in..... More
David Balfour being memoirs of his adventures at home and abroad. Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson
New York: Scribners, 1893. First American edition, and first edition under this title (published in the U.K. as Catriona); small 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 406, [2] ads; very good copy in original decorative brown cloth stamped in silver and maroon and upper cover and spine. Beinecke 590; Prideaux 39 (citing..... More
David Balfour being memoirs of his adventures at home and abroad. Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson
New York: Scribners, 1893. First American edition, and first edition under this title (published in the U.K. as Catriona); small 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 406, [2] ads; very good copy in original decorative brown cloth stamped in silver and maroon and upper cover and spine - a binding designed by..... More
Dr. Jekyll - Mr. Hyde. En befunderlig fortoelling
Chicago: J.L. Relling & Co., 1891. First edition in Norwegian; thin 12mo, pp. 88; orig. maroon cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; pages browned otherwise very good. Not in NUC, Beinecke, or Prideaux. St. Olaf and Luther College only in OCLC. More
Edinburgh. Picturesque notes
London: Seeley & Co., Ltd., 1902. Eighth edition, 8vo,pp. 182, [2]; black & white illustrated plates and illustrations within the text, partially unopened, endpapers toned, else a very good copy in original maroon cloth with gilt-decorated upper cover and gilt lettering on spine. More
A footnote to history. Eight years of trouble in Samoa
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Co., 1892. First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, 322, [2], [16] ads; original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered; previous owner's inscription dated August 20, 1892, but overall a very good copy. Beinecke 566. More
An inland voyage...Illustrated by Noel Rooke
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. 8vo, pp. xvi, 233; color frontispiece, 23 plates, 11 of which are in color, map endpapers; publisher's red pictorial cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, t.e.g.; spine toned, light shelf wear, contemporary signature on half title page, else a very good copy. Forms..... More
Island nights' entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa / The Bottle Imp / The Isle of Voices. With illustrations by Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Co., 1893. First British edition, published 5 days after the New York edition; 8vo, pp. x, [2], 277, [16] ads; inserted map printed in blue, black, green and red; 28 full-p. illustrations included in the pagination; original pictorial blue cloth; very slight darkening of..... More
Lay morals and other papers
London: Chatto & Windus, 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 320; title-p. printed in red and black; a fine copy in original black buckram lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g. Mostly reprinted material under a different title. Includes The Pentland Rising and Father Damien, among others. More
The letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his family and friends. Selected and edited with notices and introductions by Sidney Colvin
London: Methuem and Co., 1902. Sixth and cheaper edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xliv, 375; xiii, [1], 389, [1]; titles printed in red and black, gravure frontispiece in each column; original black buckram lettered in gilt on spine; some wear at the spine ends, else very good. Originally published in..... More
A lodging for the night
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1902. 8vo, pp. [6], 44, [2]; frontis portrait, title within a decorative border, original limp reverse calf lettered in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., yapp edges, pink moire pastedowns; near fine. More
A Lowden Sabbath morn ... Illustrated by A. S. Boyd
London: Chatto & Windus, 1898. First illustrated and first separate edition, square 8vo, pp. 124, [4]; title-p. printed in red and black; full-p. illustrations in the text throughout by Boyd; a largely unopened copy in original pictorial dark green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; minor..... More
The manuscripts of Robert Louis Stevenson's Records of a Family of Engineers. The unfinished chapters. Edited with an introduction by J. Christian Bay
Chicago: Walter Hill, 1929. First edition. First edition limited to 300 copies, 4to, pp. 92, [1]; 4 full-p. facsimiles; original black cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine; a very good, sound copy. Printed at the Torch Press, Cedar Rapids. More
Memories and portraits
London: Chatto & Windus, 1887. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], x, 299, [1]; very good copy in original blue buckram lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g. This copy with an early inscription, "Walter McLaren with love, F. S. O., Christmas 1887" -- McLaren likely the British Member of Parliament for..... More
Memories and portraits
London: Chatto & Windus, 1887. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], x, 299, [1]; very good copy in original blue buckram lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g. Beinecke 454. More
The novels and tales
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911-12. 27 volumes, 8vo, 2 folding maps, 1 double-page map, 5 plates; original three-quarter turquoise crushed levant, gilt decoprated spines in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in 2, t.e.g.; spines uniformly toned, occasionall minor rub marks; all else very good and sound. Includes The Life of Robert..... More
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. More
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. More
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. More
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. More
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. More
RLS: A few sentences from the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson
[Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio, the private press of Leonard Bahr, 1970]. Approximately 300 copies of this answer to the impulse to print have been made at Adagio," small 12mo (approx. 7" x 3¾"), pp. 15, [1]; printed in red and black; fine copy in original printed brown wrappers. From the..... More
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. More
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. More