Author: STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
Title: Kidnapped. Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751
Description: London, Cassell & Company. 1886, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. viii, 311, (17 publisher's cat.) pp. with folding frontispiece engraved map. Original green cloth with gilt to spine. Coated endpapers. First edition, first issue with all first issue points: "name his business" (p.40), "nine o'clock" (p.64), "Long Islands" (p.101) and adverts with code "5G.4.86" and "5B.4.86". Ink signature of Anglo/American artist and illustrator of pirates and buccaneers, George Edmund Varian (1865-1923), who illustrated Scribner's 1918 edition of 'Treasure Island'! A very nice first issue edition of this classic of English literature with interesting provenance. Very Good.
Keywords: Literature, Novels, Adventure, British Writers, Scottish Writers, Robert Loius Stevenson
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Title: Kidnapped. Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751
Description: London, Cassell & Company. 1886, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. viii, 311, (17 publisher's cat.) pp. with folding frontispiece engraved map. Original green cloth with gilt to spine. Coated endpapers. First edition, first issue with all first issue points: "name his business" (p.40), "nine o'clock" (p.64), "Long Islands" (p.101) and adverts with code "5G.4.86" and "5B.4.86". Ink signature of Anglo/American artist and illustrator of pirates and buccaneers, George Edmund Varian (1865-1923), who illustrated Scribner's 1918 edition of 'Treasure Island'! A very nice first issue edition of this classic of English literature with interesting provenance. Very Good.
Keywords: Literature, Novels, Adventure, British Writers, Scottish Writers, Robert Loius Stevenson
Price: EUR 1150.00 = appr. US$ 1249.87 Seller: Neale Williams Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 9614
- Book number: 9614
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