Author: STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (AUTHOR); GODWIN, FRANK (ILLUSTRATIONS)
Title: Kidnapped
Description: Chicago: The John C. Winston Co, 1925. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Full title: "Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson." --- First thus edition, in an illustrated reissue of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous adventure novel, which is based on real characters and events following the 1745 Jacobite uprising in Scotland. With the illustrations of Frank Godwin, 10 in black & white and four color plates. --- Bound in full olive cloth-covered boards with color Godwin illustration pasted to front cover. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With a somewhat loosened front cover, prior owner's bookplate to front paste-down, considerable rubbing to cover illustration and whitish soiling and chafing to covers. Spine titling in gilt, but it has flaked away and is barely readable.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xii, 340 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics
Title: Kidnapped
Description: Chicago: The John C. Winston Co, 1925. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Full title: "Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson." --- First thus edition, in an illustrated reissue of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous adventure novel, which is based on real characters and events following the 1745 Jacobite uprising in Scotland. With the illustrations of Frank Godwin, 10 in black & white and four color plates. --- Bound in full olive cloth-covered boards with color Godwin illustration pasted to front cover. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With a somewhat loosened front cover, prior owner's bookplate to front paste-down, considerable rubbing to cover illustration and whitish soiling and chafing to covers. Spine titling in gilt, but it has flaked away and is barely readable.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xii, 340 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics
Price: US$ 16.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 81269
- Book number: 81269