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 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
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. [12] + 4 pp ads, undated. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and olive. First American Edition, published on the very same day as Cassell's edition in... 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. 4 pp undated ads. Original printed yellow wrappers. First American Edition of this collection of tales, some of which (like "Thrawn Janet" and "Markham") are along the same vein as JEKYLL AND HYDE - Stevenson called such stories his "creepers." This copy is in... More
Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. 4 pp undated ads. Original brown cloth decorated in gilt and green. First Edition, which consisted of 2,675 copies, preceding the 1898 English edition. Stevenson wrote this at intervals between January 1893 and October 1894... More
A New Edition with Eight Illustrations by W.J. Hennessy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1894. Original black cloth decorated in red. First Illustrated Edition of these two groups of mysterious tales involving detectives -- that had originally constituted the first volume of NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS... More
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New York: George Munro's Sons, n.d. (March 13, 1896 at the top of the front wrapper). 18 pp ads, some dated June 1900. Original tan paper wrappers printed in black. First American edition to consist solely of these two groups of mysterious detective tales, which had originally constituted the first... More
With Illustrations. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. 12 pp undated ads. Original dark brown cloth decorated in black. First American (and first illustrated) Edition. The first English edition, unillustrated, had been published in November 1883; this American edition, with four plates by F.T. Merrill, was published in February 1884. The first... More
An Unfinished Romance. 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... More
A Trio & Quartette. Chicago & Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1894. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, published more than two months before Heinemann's London edition. Stevenson and his stepson contracted to write this in 1888. Osbourne began it at once, but (in his own words) "try... More
[in unbound gatherings] A Trio & Quartette. Chicago & Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Original unbound folded signatures. First Edition, fourth printing, published on October 5, 1895 (the publishing history is itemized on the copyright page).~This copy is still in its printed but unbound state -- in fourteen folded gatherings... More
Illustrated by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1892. 12 pp ads dated May 1892. Original blue cloth. First Edition of this mystery involving the disappearance of a ship, based on an actual event the Stevensons encountered en route to Samoa. A volume... More
Illustrated by William Hole and W.L. Metcalf. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. 8 pp undated ads (listing this title as "In Press"). Original light brown cloth decorated in grey-green and black. First American Edition (published two days after the English) of this mystery involving the disappearance of a ship... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 16 pp ads dated Jan 1889. Original red cloth. First Edition (English) of this dark comedy which is also an early detective story; precedence between this and the American edition is uncertain. This was the first of three collaborations between Stevenson and his stepson... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. 8 pp undated ads. Original grey cloth pictorially decorated in black, with orange tiger-stripe cloth spine. First Edition (consisting of 1500 copies) of the volume containing Stockton's most (and perhaps only) well-known short story. Stockton ingeniously created this dilemma of a princess under parental... More
[illustrated by Cruikshank] With Twenty-Seven Illustrations on Wood by George Cruikshank, Esq. London: John Cassell, 1852. 1+8 pp ads, undated except for pre-notification of Cassell's 1853 almanacs. Original blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt-decorated spine, all page edges gilt. First English Edition (? -- see below). Since Harriet Beecher Stowe's monumental... More
A Green Mountain Tale. Montpelier [VT]: E.P. Walton and Son, 1835. Original tan muslin embossed with dots. First Edition of Pierce's second book, a tale of romance and buried treasure in the hills of Vermont. Pierce (1795-1868) was an 1820 graduate of Middlebury College who became first a lawyer and... More
By One of the Fools. New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1879. 2 pp undated ads. Original light orange-brown cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this tale (semi-autobiographical) of a Union colonel who, after the war, settles in North Carolina and bumps up against the Ku Klux Klan. A.... More
