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Click to view full description | 1. | STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Ballads
London Chatto & Windus 1890
First Edition - English. Historic presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, to his stepdaughter, Isobel Osbourne Strong. Inscribed on the half-title: ÒBelle from R.L.S., Sydney, Feb 17th 1891.Ó Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Endpapers have some darkening, else a fine copy. The book is a remarkable collection of his ballads of the fanciful and weird set in both the South Seas and in Scotland ending with the moving ÒChristmas At Sea.Ó This presentation copy carries with it a very significant background, for the book was presented at the decisive moment in the relationship of R.L.S., and his stepdaughter. Stevenson had traveled alone to Sydney, Australia in February 1891 in large part to persuade Belle to give up her desire to remain in Australia and provide for herself and her son through some employment prospects. Stevenson, however, counted them as his family and she recalled that he Òtalked with such kindness, such understanding, that every last bit of resentment I held toward him melted away, and I felt myself to be truly his loving daughter.Ó Indeed, Isobel Strong would live in Stevenson's island home, Vailima, in Samoa, becoming his amanuensis, biographical adjunct and lifelong (she passed away in 1953 at age ninety-five) keeper of the flame. It is not a stretch that this very copy is the literary commemoration of that relationship changing occasion. Enclosed in a handsome gilt-stamped blue morocco and cloth slipcase.
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| 2. | 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. Ò...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....Ó 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 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.
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| 3. | 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.
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| 4. | STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Treasure Island
Boston Roberts Bros. 1884
First Printed American & First Illustrated Edition. Original brown publisher's cloth. The first printing consisted of only 1000 copies. Some slight rubbing at extremities, very good clean copy.
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| 5. | STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Treasure Island
London Cassell 1883
First Edition. This copy has all first issue points. Original publisher's blue gilt-stamped cloth, hinges slightly starting, some cocking, some rubbing, some slight fraying at top and bottom of spine, overall very good. The most famous pirate novel of all-time and one of the great landmarks of adventure fiction.
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| 6. | STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Treasure Island
London Literary Press 1934
First Edition. Very good plus copy with bright gilt stamping and thin splitting to the hinges in a very good bright dust jacket with a trace of dust soiling and some small nicks and tears. Issued at the time of the M-G-M classic film version of this literary classic directed by Victor Fleming, starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, and Nigel Bruce. The front panel of the dust jacket shows the infamous pirate Long John Silver (Wallace Beery) leaning on his crutch while standing on a tropical beach with a ship in the background.
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| 7. | STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Weir of Hermiston. An Unfinished Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson
London Chatto & Windus 1896
First Edition. Bookplate. Some light cloth rubbing, a very good tight copy.
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| 8. | STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS & LLOYD OSBORNE The Wrecker. By Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osborne
London Cassell & Company 1892
First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, Henry James to the hospitalized sixteen year old son of his intimate friend, Margaret Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak. Inscribed: ÒTo the brave Adeh from his affectionate friend, Henry James.Ó Skillfully rebacked with the original cloth laid down, a little foxing to endpapers, else very good. Brooke is discussed in Leon Edel's James biography and Brooke discusses James in her autobiography. Additionally, Robert Louis Stevenson and James were intimate friends, so it was most natural that James would present one of Stevenson's mystery and adventure novels to a boy. Enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box.
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