London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First English Edition (published five days after the American) of Stevenson's third volume of verse -- consisting of two long ballads about RLS's former home of Scotland, two about his new home of Samoa, plus "Christmas at Sea" in.....
[a handsome copy] London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. Original blue cloth, beveled. First Edition, first printing (which consisted of 1000 copies). Stevenson began writing these verses as early as 1881: supposedly after perusing through Kate Greenaway's BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR CHILDREN, he observed "These are rather nice rhymes, and I......
Written by Himself. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. 4 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in darker brown and silver. First Edition (American), published on the same day as the English edition titled CATRIONA. Stevenson wrote this sequel to KIDNAPPED with the title DAVID BALFOUR (the protagonist.....
An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu. London: Chatto and Windus, 1890. Original brown wrappers. First Trade Edition, consisting of 1,000 copies (preceded only by 25 copies issued in Sydney and 30 issued in Edinburgh). On the Stevensons' voyage to the South Pacific they had visited the.....
[RLS's first book] London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878. Original light blue cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled boards. First Edition of Stevenson's first book, which consisted of just 750 copies. It was preceded only by several tracts such as THE PENTLAND RISING and ON THE THERMAL INFLUENCE.....
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 & Company, 1893. 16 pp ads dated Mar 1893. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First English Edition, published five days.....
![Item #15601 ISLAND NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. [inscribed by a dedicatee]. Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15601.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725550086)
[inscribed by a dedicatee] 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 & Company, 1893. 16 pp ads dated September 1892 ("7G-9.92"). Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First.....
[London:] Cassell & Company, 1886. 1 page undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1886 (final page of text also dated July 1886). Original red cloth. First Edition, second issue. In mid-18th Century Scotland, 17-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle, who has.....
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[inscribed by Stevenson's mother] London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original green-blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, beveled. First Edition, first printing, which consisted of only 750 copies. This was Stevenson's third book, following AN INLAND VOYAGE and EDINBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES; like the former.....
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881. 32 pp ads dated July 1881. Original orange cloth decorated in black, beveled. First Edition, first issue, of Stevenson's first volume of collected essays (which had appeared in periodicals such as The Cornhill during the late 1870s). These essays epitomize Stevenson's early expository.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. 32 pp ads dated Mar 1896. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First Edition of Stevenson's last fiction, left unfinished at his death. Stevenson began writing this book in 1892 (he called it THE JUSTICE-CLERK), but kept putting it aside to write others -- notably.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. 4 pp undated ads. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt. First (American) Trade Edition, published on the same day as the London one. Stevenson began writing this book in 1892 (he called it THE JUSTICE-CLERK), but kept putting it aside to write others.....
One page each, dated in 1898 on May 27th, June 14th, June 18th and July 22nd. Bifolia, with the written return address "34 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park W.", each signed "Lloyd Osbourne." These four letters, addressed to "My dear Mackay" (the last one to "My dear Mac"), all have to.....
[published in Samoa in 1894] [Apia, Samoa:] For private circulation. 1894. Original stapled self-wrappers. First (privately printed) Edition of this booklet describing Stevenson's last hours and burial -- containing text that is quoted in almost every RLS biography, since it is the only first-hand account of his death. This was.....
