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Price: US$18.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 322 pages. Coverl ightly worn. Name on endppaer. Text lightly fox ed.
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Price: US$25.77 + shipping
Description: hardback, 8vo, viii,322,(16)pp, map frontispiece, page edges and endpapers browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, gilt titles, spine ends rubbed, Good condition
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: History. Early printing, not first (third thousand). Covers rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped and frayed, scuffs. Bookplate and small bookseller sticker inside the front cover, gift inscription on the first endpaper, otherwise the interior is clean, front hinge cracked, book slanted. Less common Stevenson title.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1892, third thousand. Small Octavo. viii, 322pp plus adverts. With sketch map frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles. A little rubbed. Some spotting to text-block and minor internal foxing. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii, 322, (2), (16) pp. Publisher's original dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight lean to spine. One corner bumped. Boards clean. Internally clean. Frontis map. Publisher's adverts at rear dated May, 1892. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.. A Footnote to History.. Cassell and Company, London, 1892.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: 322 pp. plus pub. cat. 8vo, original green cloth. First edition. Beinecke 566. Bookplate to pastedown; light wear to extremities; but a bright, attractive copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. viii, 322, [2], [24, ads]. Black and white frontispiece illustration within pagination. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. Some light spotting. Extremities slightly rubbed. An impassioned account of the political upheaval in Samoa. Stevenson developed a deep relationship with the people there, learning the language and acting in their defence against colonial interest. Prideaux 35.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 322+ pages, 8vo. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering along spine. Includes 8 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear of volume. Includes map as frontis. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and cover boards, spine is cocked to right, heavy foxing, light taning. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good-minus condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, 322, [2], [16] ads; original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered; previous owner's inscription dated August 20, 1892, but overall a very good copy. Beinecke 566.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 322 pp. Three Quarter Red Leather on Marbled Boards, Raised Bands, Top Edge Of Text Block Gilt. Marbled endpapers. Former owner's bookplate inside cover. Very Good, minor foxing, some sunning. Illustrated frontispiece.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa.. Cassell, 1892.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stevenson, Robert Louis. A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY: Eight Years Of Trouble In Samoa. London: Cassell & Co., 1892. 16pp catalogue. Frontispiece map. First Edition. A very nearly FINE, mostly unopened copy with just a few minor points of wear to the outer hinges. A riveting account of the political stresses on the Island of Samoa and the battle between foreign powers for influence. Stevenson's intense involvement in this thorny issue nearly got him deported.
Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 322, [16] adverts dated "5.92". Frontispiece map. Original green cloth. Spine a little bumped at tail. Endpapers and edges slightly spotted. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Frontispiece map. viii, 392, [2] pp. + 8 leaves of publisher's ads (dated as per the Beinecke copy). 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 566 Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Minor rubbing to edges, corners a bit bumped, but very good overall Frontispiece map. viii, 392, [2] pp. + 8 leaves of publisher's ads (dated as per the Beinecke copy). 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Frontispiece map. viii, 392, [2] pp. + 8 leaves of publisher's ads (dated as per the Beinecke copy). 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 566 Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Fine in fine half green morocco and green cloth slipcase Frontispiece map. viii, 392, [2] pp. + 8 leaves of publisher's ads (dated as per the Beinecke copy). 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$6376.90 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An exceptionally beautiful thirty volume set of the works of Scottish novelist and writer Robert Louis Stevenson, in sumptuous half crushed morocco bindings. Very rare in an vibrant blue morocco.Present in this extraordinary set are: The 1892 third thousand of "Footnotes to History", published in the same year as the first edition. With a map frontispiece. The 1894 fourteenth thousand of "The Ebb-Tide", by Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, published in the same year as the first edition. The thirty-first thousandth of "The Black Arrow", published in 1897. Illustrated with eight plates by Paget. Collated, complete. The 1896 second edition of "Weir of Hermiston". An 1897 "New Edition" of "The Suicide Club and Rajah"s Diamonds". With eight plates by W.J. Hennessy. Collated, complete. The eleventh thousand of "Island Nights" Entertainments", 1898. Illustrated with twenty-six plates, including a colour map. Collated, complete. An 1899 edition of "The Dynamiter". The 1899 seventh edition of "The Merry Men". An 1899 edition of "The Wrong Box", with a frontispiece and vignette illustration to the title page. The 1899 thirty-first thousand of "The Wrecker", co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. Illustrated by William Hole and W.L. Metcalf, with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated, complete. An 1899 edition of "Treasure Island", illustrated by Wal Paget. With a frontispiece and forty-five plates and vignette illustrations. Collated, complete. The 1899 fourteenth edition of "Familiar Studies of Men and Books". An 1899 edition of "St. Ives". The 1899 fourth edition of "Songs of Travel". A 1900 edition of "Prince Otto". "Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes", the 1900 seventh edition. The 1900 twenty-third edition of "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. A 1900 edition of "An Inland Voyage", illustrated with a frontispiece. The 1900 ninth edition of "Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays". A 1900 edition of "Catriona", illustrated with sixteen plates from Hole. The 1900 ninth edition of "Memories & Portraits". "In the South Seas", published in 1900. The 1900 fifth edition of "Ballads". "Travels with a Donkey, a 1900 edition, illustrated with a frontispiece. The 1901 third edition of "Vailma Letters", which presents correspondences from Stevenson to Sidney Colvin between 1890 and 1894. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete. The 1900 twenty-second edition of "New Arabian Nights". The 1900 eleventh edition of "Underwoods". A 1901 edition of "Kidnapped", with sixteen plates by Hole, and a folding colour map. Collated, complete. A 1901 edition of "The Silverado Squatters", with a frontispiece. "The Masters of Ballantrae", published in 1901 and with ten plates by Hole.Retaining the original half-titles.With the illustrated bookplate of American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to each front pastedown. Carnegie, born in Stevenson's native Scotland, emigrated to America as a child, and was instrumental in the expansion of the American steel industry, becoming one of the richest Americans in history, and a leading philanthropist in the United States, Great Britain, and the British Empire. During the last eighteen years of his life, he gave away ninety percent of his fortune to charitable causes.An exceptionally beautiful set. In half crushed morocco bindings, with cloth covered boards. Externally, wonderful. Light rubbing to front board head of 'Treasure Island', with minor rubbing to spine tail of 'Vailma Letters', and light mark to front board of 'Familiar Studies'. Instances of light rubbing to back strip heads and tails. Back strips a touch age toned. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom