DAVID BALFOUR. Being Memoirs of his Adventures at Home and Abroad.
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 of both tales), but during serialization in England, the public was confused, thinking that this might be merely a reprint of KIDNAPPED; therefore the English edition was published with the title CATRIONA (Balfour's daughter's name, pronounced "Ka-TREE-a-na"), and to this day the tale has a different title on each side of the Atlantic.
This is a near-fine copy, with minor cover soil and a slightly darkened spine; the binding design is by Margaret Armstrong (unsigned). Beinecke 590; Princeton 54A; Gullans & Espey (Armstrong) 206. Provenance: the rear paste-down bears the relatively-recent book-label of "Tusitala Bookshop | Hawaiian Islands" ("Tusitala," Samoan for "teller of tales," was RLS's nickname there). Item #15764
Price: $175.00