STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Belfour in the Year 1751. [London:] Cassell & Company, 1886.
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Belfour in the Year 1751. [London:] Cassell & Company, 1886.
8vo. Half-title, foldout map frontispiece; 17pp. publisher's ads at end. (Half-title corner tear repaired, discreet repairs to map folds, small marginal tear to pp. 57-60.) Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black coated endpapers (spine leaned and a touch rubbed at ends, front hinge starting at title).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the following points: the inserted ads are dated "5G.4.86" on the first leaf and "5B.4.86" on the fifth; "business" for "pleasure" on p. 40; "nine o'clock" for twelve o'clock" on p. 64; and "Long Islands" for "Long Island" on p. 101. Beinecke/McKay 379; Prideaux 18.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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