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Price: US$93.43 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 2nd issue. Catalogue dated 5g-7.86. Map not torn and end papers not split. Contents VG. Spine 'browned' but gilt lettering clear. Boards a little marked with large mark on front board where label removed at some time. A little wear to corners and head & foot of spine. Used - Good. Good hardback in red cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Thirteenth thousand, with the adverts date July '86. 8vo. Pp viii, 311. Folding map frontis. Publisher's list at end. Original cloth, damp staining to lower boards & spine. Wear to all extremities. Inner hinges secure. Not bad
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$182.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GC plus.Casell and company,1886,London.Sixteenth thousand.First edition-second issue with pleasure on page 40, line 11.Red hardback(a couple of stain and ink marks on the front and back cover,gilt lettering to the spine but slightly faded,two small tears on the edges of the spine) in good condition plus, no Dj cover.Illustrated with a colour folded map(small tear on the edge of the map) inside the front cover.Clean pages but slightly aged and tainted on the outer edges,a couple of marks,small foxing marks,some creases and nicks on the edges of the pages.The book is in GC for its age with some shelf wear.326pp including 11 pages with advertisements(including one page ads for Treasure Island.), ads dated: 5.G-9.86.
Seller: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$228.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue, 1886. Folding frontispiece map ( has a repaired tear with no loss). Contents lightly marked and thumbed. Top edges gilt. Bound in half blue leather with raised bands by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Some very light marking and rubbing, else very good copy. 311 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [1] 2-311 [312: ad] + [16]-page publisher's catalogue at rear dated "5 G. 7-86 and 5 B. 7.86." folded map, publisher's red cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, black coated endpapers. First edition, second issue. Clipped Stevenson signature tipped in on the half title page. Corrected text; "Pleasure" on page 40; "Long Island" on page 101. Prideaux 18. Spine lean, some wear to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, spine darkened, some spotting to cloth (mostly rear panel), several old book descriptions affixed to the front paste-down, a sound, good copy. (#173085)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/2 leather, marbled boards & endpapers; spine bands; all notable points of 1st issue on pp 40, 64, 61 andcolor map frontis; 1 page ad in rear; likely 1st state with ads dropped in this binding; library stamp on edge, some wear on points, firm binding ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$381.61 + shipping
Description: First edition [second issue] hard back binding in publisher's original emerald green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, black coated end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains (viii), 311 printed pages of text with folding coloured frontispiece map, 14pp rear advertisements dated 5 G.7.86 and 5 B. 7.86. First edition second issue, with the corrected text to pages 40, 64 and 101 and with the advertisements to the rear dated July 1886. Light surface rubbing to the cloth, spine very slightly age darkened and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. STEVENSON, Robert Louis
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 311, (1, ad) pp. wiith folding map. First issue with "business" for "pleasure" p. 40 line 11, "nine o`clock" on p. 64 line 1, and "Long Islands" on p. 101 line 10. Hardcover, recased with new endpapers, without additional ads, in brown calf over gilt embossed cloth, edges marbled. The binding scuffed with loss of spine label. Owner's name on the half-title in the year of publication. Text block bright and unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$540.61 + shipping
Description: First edition [second issue]. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Black coated endpapers. Fold out map frontispiece. Catalogue to the rear. An excellent better than very good copy, the spine tips a little bumped, the cloth clean and the binding firm. The contents are entirely complete and without previous owner's inscriptions but with a small stationers blind stamp to the front endpaper. The hinges remain firm and without repair and other than some minor foxing to the text block edge the book is clean and bright throughout. A very attractive example in entirely original condition. Second issue, with the corrected text to pages 40, 64 and 101 and with the adverts to the rear dated July 1886 Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Kidnapped [FIRST EDITION]. Cassell and Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Original red publisher's cloth. Fold-out map. viii; 311 pp.; [16] pp. of ads. Binding has been professionally repaired in the past. Minor scuffing and discoloration to cloth. Bookplate inside front cover. Previous owner's signature, dated 1919, on title page. Tight and clean. An excellent copy. This is a first edition, second issue of Stevenson's classic adventure novel. "Pleasure" on p. 40. Ads dated 5.G-7.86. (Prideaux 18) This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$563.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. viii,311pp. 12mo. Rebound in an attractive half calf and marbled boards binding. Marbled endpapers to match. 16 page publishers catalogue dated 7 86at the rear. A clean tight copy in a very attractive binding. The second issue of the book with the corrected text and the later dated ads.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$585.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good, first edition, SECONDissue with corrected text on pages 40, 64 and 101 and ads dated July, 1886. In original blue cloth with stamped gilt lettering on the spine. The book was issued in four colors with no priority given. Fold-out map frontispiece is intact. Front and back board panels are scuffed and soiled; back panel has several small stains. Spine is sunned. Edges at head and tail of board spine are split and fraying; edge at tail is fragile. Fore-edge corners are rubbed through, more so on the front edge corners. Other edges are scuffed with some rub-through on the lower edge of back panel near the spine. External page edges are age-darkened. Black coated endpapers. Front and back internal gutters are cracked with the last two pages of ads loosened. Additional cracks at pp. 112-113 and 192-193. In spite of cracks the text block is relatively sound. The half-title page and page 311 have Date Received stamps of 8/21/86. Internal text margins are minimally age-darkened and there are occasional smudges but overall (except for the date stamps) the internal text is clean. Advertisements in the rear include Treasure Island followed by an additional 14 pages. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Kidnapped [FIRST EDITION]. Cassell and Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Original red publisher's cloth. Fold-out map. viii; 311 pp.; [16] pp. of ads. Minor scuffing and discoloration to cloth. Cock to spine. Bookplate inside front cover. Previous owner's signature, dated 1886, on title page. Tight and clean. An excellent copy. This is a first edition, second issue of Stevenson's classic adventure novel. "Pleasure" on p. 40. Ads dated 5.G-7.86. (Prideaux 18) This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. London Cassell 1886, 1886.
Price: US$604.21 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition, Second Issue, published by Cassell in 1886. 311pp including 11 pages with advertisements (including one page ad for 'Treasure Island', dated: 5.G-10.86. Sixteenth thousand to title page, with "pleasure" on page 40, Original green boards. Wear to the edges, handling marks to the boards. Small name to the title page. Rare
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Price: US$636.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth. A little cocked; upper cover rather spotted, lower cover a little splash-marked, mild crack at top of upper hinge, some light internal foxing. With the book-label of Lady Rothschild. Folding map at title-page; first issue, with first issue points, Treasure Island advertisement and, at back, 16pp. publisher's advertisements dated "4.86". "I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house . . ."
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.. Kidnapped.. Cassell and Company, [London], 1886.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 311 pp. plus pub. cat. 8vo, original blue cloth. First edition, with the earliest state of the ads dated "5G.4.86." Spine worn and split at upper 3" of rear joint; corners bumped; front hinge cracked; the inserted map slighly split at one fold. A good copy of a scarce book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Cassell and Co, London. 1886. True 1st/1st in publisher's red cloth and gilt lettering on spine. Folding map attached in front. Map has a small tear at one of the folds. Some staining to boards. Hinge starting to crack in front. Cocked spine. Moderatly worn binding. Minor foxing to first few pages and map. Text clean and in excellent shape. 'W.H. Smith, London' blind stamp on front endpaper. All identifying marks present. Page 40 line 11 contains the word 'buisness' instead of 'pleasure', page 64 contains 'nine o'clock' instead of 'twelve', and page 101 contains 'long islands' instead of 'island'. Complete ads in back dated 5G.4.86 and 5B.4.86. 5B ad pages are uncut. (Prideaux 47-48) Inquire for pictures. HARDCOVER Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue, with line 11 on p. 40 reading "pleasure"; ads dated "5.G-7.86" Folding map. viii, 311, [1]; [8] pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 381 Publisher's green cloth. About fine. In green chemise and half green morocco slipcase Folding map. viii, 311, [1]; [8] pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, second issue, with line 11 on p. 40 reading "pleasure"; ads dated "5.G-7.86".
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. Cassell & Company, Limited, [London], 1886.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue with "business" on page 40, line 11, and adverts at rear dated 5G. 4.86 and 5B. 4.86. Bound in publisher's original cloth ruled in blind with titles in gilt on the spine; with folding map at front. Very Good with light lean to spine and darkening to spine cloth, cloth soiled, front inner hinge repaired and rear inner hinge partially exposed, pages toned.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$954.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1886, FIRST Edition, Second Issue. Full Polished Calf Binding by Bayntun, five raised bands to spine with gilt lined and gilt ship decorated panels and gilt titles. Gilt lined polished calf boards, gilt page edges and marbled end papers. Binders stamp to the reverse of the end paper. Folding colour map to the front. This is a first edition, second issue of Stevenson's classic adventure novel. "Pleasure" on p. 40. Ads dated 5.G-7.86 and 5.B-7.86. (Prideaux 18) viii, 311pp, [17]pp adverts. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 7 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles to red and green labels, nicely decorated in gilt to the compartments. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition gently marked and worn, gilt edged, gilt filet to the boards. Page edges very good condition gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition. Paste downs very good condition inner gilt dentelles, marbled. End papers very good condition marbled. Title very good condition gently tanned. Pages very good condition tanned with minor foxing. Binding very good condition solid and attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1886 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$954.02 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: first edition, first state of Kidnapped. With 'business' for 'pleasure on p.40, line 11,; 'nine o'clock' for 'twelve' on p.64; 'long islands' for ''island' on p.101; viii - 311 p top edge gilt folding coloured map fronti's. Armorial bookplate to front paste down. Bound without the adverts in half burgundy morocco, titles in gilt on spine, raised bands with compartments ruled in gilt cloth sides by Sotheran The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions or marks. The binding clean and tight with no marks chips or splits.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-311, [13] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Half early 20th-century navy morocco over royal blue cloth, marbled endpapers and pastedowns; spine in six compartments with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Bound by C.A. Campling of Great Yarmouth. Illustrated by a color fold-out map. Pictorial bookplate with a name in Arabic on the front pastedown, gift inscription in the year of publication, and a contemporary catalog description taped to the first blank leaf. Ahearn Collected Books 4th Edition, 627. ODNB: Mehew, Ernest, "Stevenson, Robert Louis"; Prideaux 47-48. Russell 48. First issue with "business" on p. 40 line 11. ; Originally serialized in the publication Young Folks' Paper in 1886 and published as a standalone book later that year, Kidnapped is a historical adventure novel set in the years following the Jacobite rising of 1745. A handsome copy of one of Stevenson's best-known and most enduringly popular novels. A Very Good copy with a small, discreet repair to the map and a small chip to the margin of page 205.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. Cassell and Co., Ltd., London:, 1886.
Price: US$1155.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full Red Morocco Gilt. Folding colour map at frontispiece. First Edition, second printing with issue point "business" in line 11 of page 40 and rear advertisements dated "5G7.86" and "5.B7.86". In a magnificent full crushed, red morocco gilt binding by Bayntun. Spine in six comparments with raised bands and elaborate gold tooling and lettering, a.e.g. Original cloth covers and spine bound in at rear. Exceptionally clean and fresh internally. A landmark of English literatue in a magnificent Bayntun binding.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1208.42 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. pp viii, 311, [17] adverts dated "5.G. 4.86" and "5B. 4.86" and with "business" rather than "pleasure" on page 40, line 11. Folding frontispiece map in colour. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. The book was issued in four different colours, with no priority given.Early ownership signature on half-title. Inner hinges cracking and repaired. Cloth rubbed at joints and at head and tail of spine. Corners a little bruised. Sporadic spotting. Good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: This first edition of Robert Louis Stevensons Kidnapped is finely bound in full oxblood calf. The binding features raised spine bands, double gilt-rule framed and gilt-tooled compartments, twin black spine title and author labels, gilt rule-bordered covers, red and green silk head and tailbands, and marbled endpapers. Condition of the binding is near fine square, tight, clean, the calf unfaded and supple with only trivial superficial scuffs. The contents are suited to the binding, notably clean with the color folding map present and intact at the title page and the publishers advertisements following the text retained when the volume was bound. The contents appear to be a mixed issue of the first edition. The text appears consonant with first issue; in line 11 of p.40, "business" is uncorrected. However, the advertisements following the text are dated 5G-7.86. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish author best known for his novels Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Master of Ballantrae. Stevenson cast off his family profession of engineer and led a rather peripatetic, albeit sickly, life (he had tuberculosis), his final years spent in the South Seas, including Tahiti, Honolulu, Gilbert Islands, and Samoa, where he died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 44. Stevenson "was overpraised in his lifetime and immediately after his death, and has been considerably undervalued since. A series of collected editions bore witness to the popularity of his books with the general reader, but from the 1930s onwards he was ignored or patronized by academic critics as merely a writer for children. Slowly the tide has turned. He has been praised by modern writers and the critics are beginning to take him seriously again.In recent decades, "Stevensons reputation drastically appreciated as "a writer of originality and power whose essays at their best are cogentand perceptive renderings of aspects of the human condition; whose novels are either brilliant adventure stories with subtlemoral overtones or original and impressive presentations of human action in terms of history and topography as well as psychology; whose short stories produce some new and effective permutations in the relation between romance and irony or manage to combine horror and suspense with moral diagnosis " (ODNB, Britannica).Kidnapped is a historical fiction novel. The full title is 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. Set during real 18th century Scottish events, notably the Jacobite uprising and the murder of Colin Roy Campbell, the government-appointed factor of the forfeited land of the Clan Steward of Appin, the book follows 17-year-old David Balfour, whose uncle attempts to bamboozle David out of his inheritance and sell him into slavery. While the main character is fictional, others are real, such as Colin Roy Campbell, and James Stewart (the man who was hanged for killing Campbell).
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped. Cassell & Company, [London], 1886.
Price: US$1265.66 + shipping
Description: A lovely example of the first edition, first issue of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic work of historical adventure fiction. Initially published serially, this is the first edition in book form, first issue, with publisher's advertisements dated "5G.4.86" and "5B.4.86", and with the correct issue points of "business" on page 40; "nine o'clock" on page 64 and "Long Islands" on page 101.Illustrated with a colour folding map frontispiece.Stevenson's classic novel is set amongst real eighteenth century events, most notably the Appin Murder which occurred in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rising, and portrays the Scottish highlanders sympathetically.With an eleven page publisher's catalogue to the rear.Retaining the original half title, but with endpapers renewed.A lovely example of the first edition of this beloved work. Rebound in half calf, with cloth covered boards. Endpapers renewed. A touch of rubbing to spine head, otherwise externally fine. Internally, firmly bound. Instances of light spotting and handling marks throughout, most concentrated to first and last few leaves, and folding map. Pages bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. Cassell & Company, Limited, London, 1886.
Price: US$1437.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Folding color map (two closed tears, neatly repaired). Blue cloth, gilt spine title First issue, with 'business' on p. 40, 'nine' on p. 64,'islands; on p. 101, and ads dated '5.G.4.86' and '5.B.4.86'. Wear to edges, head and tail of spine, and hinges else a very good copy. Contemporary writing on front pastedown covered by card on which the writer Robert Cameron Rogers has mounted his armorial bookplate. Prideaux 18. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 311 plus 18-page pub. cat . Folding frontispiece map. 8vo, publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth. First edition, first issue, with "business," line 11, p. 40 and ads dated :5G.4.86: and "5B.4.86." Small gilt-lettered leather label and bookseller's ticket on pastedown; ink notation and partially effaced name on half-title; a very good copy with some wear to the cloth, bumping at corners, and slight fading to the spine. The (inner) hinges are in nice condition, and the map has no use or tears.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2098.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rare first edition, first state of Kidnapped. With 'business' for 'pleasure on p.40, line 11,; 'nine o'clock' for 'twelve' on p.64; 'long islands' for ''island' on p.101; 17 pages of ads at the rear with dates 5G.4.86 and 5B.4.86 - Prideaux 47-48. Original russet cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Lean to the book. Lightly darkened spine with little wear to the spine ends. Dulling to the boards. Black clean end papers. Folding map attached with tear along the folds. Generally clean contents with some finger marks within the text. 311 pp with 17 pages of advertisements at the rear.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. Cassell & Company, London, 1886.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First State. Blue buckram with bright gilt lettering. Fold out multi colored publisher's map opposite title page. First printing with "business" rather than "pleasure" on page 40 line 11; "nine o'clock" on page 64 line 1; and "Long Islands" on page 101, lines 9-10. The 17 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear of book are dated 5.G.4.86 and 5.B.4.86. Book is square and tight, with clean pages that have no writing, marks or foxing. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. Cassell & Company, London, 1886.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with "business" on p 40; "nine o'clock" on p 64; "Long Islands" on p 101; and with ads dated "5.G. 4.86" and "5.B. 4.86." A wonderful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's blue cloth with minor wear to the spine. The binding is tight with NO cocking leaning and the pages are clean with minor wear. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.