Search results for: 'STEVENSON, Robert Louis'
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis, & Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson. More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter.London : 1885
First edition of this collection of short stories in a fine Zaehnsdorf binding. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the whole of "The Explosive Bomb" and several passages in the other stories, apart from "The Destroying Angel" and "The Fair Cuban", for which Fanny Stevenson was solely responsible. There was also a wrappered issue of the first edition but the... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 110745
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis, & Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson. More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter.London : [after] 1885
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the whole of "The Explosive Bomb" and several passages in the other stories, apart from "The Destroying Angel" and "The Fair Cuban", for which Fanny Stevenson was solely responsible. There was also a wrappered issue of the first edition but the cloth issue is much scarcer.
From the library of Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st... Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 141937
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Body-Snatcher.New York : 1895
First separate edition of Stevenson's first "crawler", his pet name for macabre stories, a "Poe-like chiller" based on the career of Robert Knox the anatomist, "to whom the notorious Burke and Hare supplied for dissection the newly slain bodies of their victims" (McLynn).
It was published in Merriam's attractive Violet Series, having originally... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 145749
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verse.London : 1885
First edition, one of 1,000 copies published. From the library of English literary journalist and author Charles Whibley whose half-brother Fred had a curious link to Stevenson. A copra trader in Tuvalu, he married a local woman called Meri Matavaka. Meri's previous avaga (married one) had been Jack Buckland, whom Stevenson acknowledges as the inspiration... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 122615
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works.New York : 1901
A handsomely bound set of the Thistle Edition, complete as issued, and containing the author's novels, satirical sketches and letters. The present edition was issued in 24 volumes from 1895 to 1899 and comprises 22 volumes of Stevenson's works with 2 volumes of his letters. Three more volumes (Stevenson's biography and more of his letters) were published... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 102346
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses.London : 1885
First edition, one of 1,000 copies published. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 132801
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Island Nights' Entertainments.London : 1893
First UK edition, first impression with the price facing the half title altered in ink; originally published in the US five days earlier.
This copy is from the library of Percy Lubbock (1879-1965), with his bookplate to the front pastedown and ink ownership inscription to the front free endpaper verso, stating "Eton, May 1895". He was a King's... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 144431
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works, Vailima Edition.New York, : 1921-3
Vailima edition, number 714 of 1,030 numbered sets for the United States, out of a total edition of 2,090 sets. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 48444
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works, Vailima Edition.New York : 1921-3
Vailima edition, number 93 of 1,030 sets for the United States, from a total limited edition of 2,090 sets. Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 134289
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Underwoods.Portland, Maine : 1900
First Mosher edition, number 20 of 100 copies printed on japon paper, with an additional 925 copies printed on Van Gelder paper. The printer, Thomas Mosher, was a major contributor to the American private press movement. A finely printed and bound copy, which was first published in 1887. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 122918
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories.London : 1992
A handsome leather bound volume of this classic novel which was first published in 1886. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 98367
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works.London : 1911-2
First Lang edition, the Swanston Edition, number 1,977 of 2,060 sets. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 112903
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.New York : 1886
First edition, the authorized US edition preceding its London counterpart by four days after Longmans decided to delay the publication until January, as it was feared the book would be lost in the Christmas rush. Both the US and UK printings were issued in wrappers and cloth, "as if to echo the strange double act of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (Luckhurst).... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 135905
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. St. Ives.London : 1898
First UK edition, of Stevenson's unfinished novel, originally published in the US the preceding year, which was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 134634
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island and Kidnapped.London : 1909
First combined edition (first published thus in August 1907), fifth impression, in an attractive deluxe binding. Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886) were the first of Stevenson's novels to be published by Cassell, both first serialized in Young Folks, then afterwards published in book form, and they remained among the best-sellers on Cassell's... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 138093
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ROYCROFT PRESS: STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Lodging for the Night:East Aurora, NY : 1902
Limited edition on Japanese vellum, one of 100 copies signed by the illuminator and Elbert Hubbard, or more probably on his behalf by one of the Roycrofters. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 88108
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis, & Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrecker.London : 1892
First edition, first impression, of Stevenson's comedy of manners, the first of two novels set in the South Seas and written in collaboration with his stepson, the second being The Ebb-Tide (1894). "As for The Wrecker, it 's a machine, you know - don't expect aught else - a machine, and a police machine; but I believe the end is one of the most genuine... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 90218
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ROBINSON, Charles (illus.); STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses.London : 1896
First Charles Robinson edition. A Child's Garden of Verses was originally published in 1885. Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 132890
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.London : 1927
Signed limited edition, number 11 of 50 copies signed by the illustrator, bound in vellum and printed on handmade paper, and notably rare due to the unusually small limitation. Hughey describes Dulac's watercolour illustration for Treasure Island as his "most careful and superb painting", and Dulac himself considered them his best work. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 138005
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis, & W. E. Henley. Three Plays:London : 1892
First collected edition, one of 1,000 copies thus. "The issue consisted of 1,000 copies on ordinary paper, 100 large paper copies, bound in half buff cloth, and 30 copies on Japanese vellum paper" (Slater). With the spine panel of the original cloth bound in at rear. A fine Zaehnsdorf binding. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 110774
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis, & Lloyd Osbourne. The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and Quartette.London : 1894
First UK edition, published two months after the US edition. With the front and spine panels of the original cloth bound in at rear. A fine Zaehnsdorf binding. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 110753
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.London : 1927
First Dulac trade edition, first impression. Hughey describes Dulac's watercolour illustrations for Treasure Island as his "most careful and superb painting", and Dulac himself considered them his best work. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 130032
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.London : 1927
First Dulac edition, signed limited issue, number 49 of 50 copies signed by the illustrator, bound in vellum and printed on handmade paper, and notably rare due to the unusually small limitation. Hughey describes Dulac's watercolour illustration for Treasure Island as his "most careful and superb painting", and Dulac himself considered them his best... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131651
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STEADMAN, Ralph (illus.); STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.London : 1985
First Steadman edition, first impression, signed by Steadman in gold ink on the endpapers. The book was originally published in 1883. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 134563
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis; STEADMAN, Ralph (illus.) Treasure Island.London : 1985
First Steadman edition, deluxe limited issue, number 182 of 250 copies. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 141911
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SKINNER, Robert T. In the Cévennes Without a Donkey.Edinburgh : 1926
First and limited edition, one of 100 copies printed for private circulation; presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Mr John Russell from Robt. T. Skinner, 22nd September, 1926". Skinner (1867-1946), an Aberdonian, taught mathematics at George Watson's, Edinburgh, and Donaldson's, Linlithgow. His book details two... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 141458
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FALKNER, J. Meade. Moonfleet.London : 1898
First edition of Falkner's second book. "Like the adventure stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, Moonfleet combines consummate atmospheric effects... with the excitement of a lost diamond, contraband, hot pursuits by excisemen, and the last superb climax of shipwreck and rescue in a storm" (ODNB).
Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 126410
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TAYLOR, Una. Nets for the Wind.London : 1896
First edition, number 24 in Lane's Keynotes series. The Keynotes Series, comprising 33 novels and short story collections, was published in a distinctive format, featuring Aubrey Beardsley's cover designs and embellishments, by John Lane between 1893 and 1897; Beardsley produced the designs for 22 Keynotes volumes while he was working on The Yellow... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 137119
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AUSTIN, Alexander Berry (ed.) An Angler's Anthology.London & New York : 1930
First edition, first impression, deluxe issue with an original etching numbered and signed by the artist, number 7 of 100 copies signed by both Austin and Wilkinson on the limitation page. Uncommon, especially in the original box.
Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971) was a British artist and marine painter. Also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140837
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WELLS, H. G. The Invisible Man.London : 1897
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Wells to his literary mentor on the half-title, "W. E. Henley from H. G. Wells (with apologies)". William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), poet, critic, journalist and influential editor of the National Observer and other papers, "had a gift for finding and encouraging new talent" (ODNB). He published works by... Learn More£18,000.00Stock Code: 115742
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PHOTOPLAYS. Photoplay Collection.London, New York, etc : c.1910-50
An excellent photoplay collection from the early decades of cinema, with the scarce and sensational illustrated dust jackets. 64 volumes are from the Readers Library series, published in London, 38 are from New York's Grosset & Dunlap (these notably illustrated with photographic film stills), and the remainder are from various other publishers. The... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 120921
