[scarce -- the McCutcheon copy] A Melodramatic Farce. London: Wm. Heinemann, n.d. [1895]. Original grey printed wrappers, the front cover serving as title page. First Published Edition (? -- see below). The play "Robert Macaire" had been performed in England since 1835, and before that had been performed in France... More
With Other Memories and Essays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First Edition (English -- published on the same day as the American). This volume consists largely of Stevenson's thoughts as he journeyed by train in 1879 from New York to San Francisco, in pursuit... More
One page, dated (by RLS) June 30th 1893. N.p. [but at Vailima Plantation, Apia, Samoa]. This letter is hand-addressed by Stevenson to: "John B. Day Esq. | 5 Blythwood Villas | Stroud Green | London N.", and reads as follows:~Dear Sir, I am unfortunately confined to the house by influenza... More
A Tale of the Two Roses. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. 8 pp undated ads. Original printed yellow wrappers. First Edition, published about six weeks before the London edition. Unlike the English one, the American edition is illustrated; it was also issued, at a higher price, in red cloth... More
A Tale of the Two Roses. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1888. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1888. Original red cloth decorated in black. First English Edition of this historical tale of adventure and romance, published about six weeks after the... More
A Tale of the Two Roses. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1888. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1888. Original red cloth decorated in black. First English Edition of this historical tale of adventure and romance, published about six weeks after the... More
Illustrated. New York: The Merriam Company, n.d. [1895]. 3 pp undated ads. Original violet cloth decorated in dark violet. First Edition, issued as the second volume in Merriam's "Violet Series." This is Stevenson's famous tale about the anatomist "K---" and his need for cadavres (based undoubtedly upon the career of... More
A Sequel to "Kidnapped". Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad. London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1893. 2 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated Aug 1893. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition (English) of this tale that is a sequel... More
[Stevenson's second book] With Etchings by A. Brunet-DeBaines from Drawings by S. Bough, R.S.A., and W.E. Lockhart, R.S.A. And Vignettes by Hector Chalmers and R. Kent Thomas. London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1879. Original brown cloth decorated in gilt and black, beveled, all edges gilt. First Edition of Stevenson's second... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1883. Original olive green cloth decorated in brown and black. First Edition of this early Stevenson title, which consisted of only 1000 copies. These nine essays on other writers (included are two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau) had appeared in periodicals... More
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... More
Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1892. 16 pp ads dated May 1892. Original dark green cloth. First Edition (English -- published on the same day as the American) of this account of "eight years of trouble" between the natives and the foreigners... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883. 10 pp undated ads. Original bright green cloth decorated in black and gilt. First American Edition of Stevenson's first book (published five years after the London edition). Stevenson's third book, TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY, was published in 1879 both in London and in Boston -- making... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: Written by Himself. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Original printed yellow wrappers. First American Edition, published on the very same day as Cassell's edition in London. Like that edition, this book is unillustrated except for the frontispiece... More
being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751... Written by Himself. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in black. First American Illustrated Edition. In July 1886 the first English and American editions (unillustrated except for a map frontispiece) were published... More
being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751. [London:] Cassell & Company, 1886. 1 page undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated Apr 1886. Original terra-cotta cloth. First Edition, first issue. In mid-18th Century Scotland, 17-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his inheritance by a.... More
A Winter's Tale. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1889. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1889. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition (published on the day before the Scribner's one), with the proper July ads. Stevenson freely acknowledged that... More
[fine in yellow wrappers] A Winter's Tale. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 2+8 pp undated ads. Original printed yellow wrappers. First American Edition (published on the day after Cassell's London one). Stevenson freely acknowledged that his inspiration for this book was Robert Marryat's THE PHANTOM SHIP (1839), which he... More
A Winter's Tale. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1889. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1889. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, published on the day before Scribner's American edition. Stevenson freely acknowledged that his inspiration for this novel... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. 8 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First (Separate) Edition. Prof. H.C. Fleeming Jenkin, who had been Stevenson's engineering instructor in 1871 at the University of Edinburgh, had remained a close friend ever since. He died in mid-1885, and in 1887 the two-volume PAPERS... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1887. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First Edition of these "memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle." The edition is believed to have consisted of 2000 copies. A near-fine copy (cloth worn at the top of... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1887. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1886. Original blue cloth decorated in silver and black. First Edition of this handsomely-bound collection of tales, some of which (like "Thrawn Janet") are along the same vein as JEKYLL AND HYDE -- Stevenson called such stories his "creepers."~This copy... More
