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Robert Louis Stevenson. In The South Seas. Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$1.96 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: green boards, boards are marked and slightly dulled, wear to spine ends and corners, 342p, pages clean and overall good condition

Seller: Tilly's Bookshop, Haydock, MER, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$3.57 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Chatto & Windus 1916 edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING

Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson, introduction by Mrs Stevenson. PRAYERS WRITTEN AT VAILIMA. Chatto and Windus, 1916.

Price: US$5.20 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hbk, 19p. London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. 8th imp. Some foxing to edges and prelim. page o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. Attractive patterned cloth binding. Title page in red & black print. e669 / m4635

Seller: Gwyn Tudur Davies, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson. In the South Seas being an account of experiences and observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus, and Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two cruises on the Yacht 'Casco' (1888), and the Schooner 'Equator' (1889). Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$5.98 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good condition soft cover maroon boards, no DJ. Title is shown on spine in gilt lettering but the spine is scuffed a little. 342 pages good and clean with clear print and gilded on the edge.

Seller: Redruth Book Shop, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Essays of Travel. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed unmarked boards, dusty page edges, pulling to top of spine and no bumping to corners. 230pp. Tales of travels by Robert Louis Stevenson. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 6.5 x 4.25 inches

Seller: Godley Books, Hyde, United Kingdom

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginisbus Puerisque and Other Papers. Chatto and Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover without dust jacket. Spine is tanned, boards are lightly marked at front, previous owner's name penned to FEP, board edges lightly rubbed and page block foxed. Internally, pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD

Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson. The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$8.45 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 180 grams. Inscribed 1917.

Seller: Book Souk, Porstoy, United Kingdom

STEVENSON, Robert Louis.:. On the Choice of a Profession.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$9.75 + shipping

Description: 2nd. Impression. Small 4to. (14cm. tall x 10cm.). 28pp. 3pp introduction by Lloyd Osbourne. Red letter title. In the original lettered grey boards with purple cloth spine. The backstrip is faded and has signs of damp. This apart a very good copy.

Seller: Richard Roberts Bookseller., KILMARNOCK, United Kingdom

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque. Chatto and Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$10.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Gilt top edge. 193 pp. Shelf wear. This copy was a school prize, with a certificate pasted to front free endpaper. Tight and clean. This is an attractive antique copy of Stevenson's classic essay collection ("Of Maidens and Youths" in Latin). 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. The Waif Woman. Chatto & Windus 1916, 1916.

Price: US$10.19 + shipping

Description: Second edition, 32mo (very small) with heavy card boards (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Waif Woman. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$11.14 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Very good copy. Second edition published same year as first edition. 44pp.

Seller: Theologia Books, La Charite sur Loire, France

STEVENSON,ROBERT LOUIS. The Waif Woman. chatto and windus london 1916, 1916.

Price: US$11.42 + shipping

Description: second edition 44pp VG (paper boards,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,sl.bumps to extrems.,dealer's label to front pastedown,owner's sign.to ffep and half-title,minor soiling to contents)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Waif Woman. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Boards discoloured and endpapers foxed. Still tightly bound. Upper corner of fore-edge on pages pp. 7-end stained lightly. Size: 6 x 4"

Seller: Kadriin Blackwell, Greensville, ON, Canada

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Chatto & Windrus, London, 1916.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Green covers with blind stamped monogram in badge and titles to front. Gilt decoration and titles to spine. Small neat inscription on reverse of list of works by. Green floral end papers.

Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson. Prayers written at Vailima. Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Publisher - Chatto & Windus, London, 1916. 8th impr. With an introduction by Mrs. Stevenson. Very good condition, quarter bound with patterned boards and green cloth spine with gilt lettering, occasional foxing, no marks or inscriptions, title page printed in red and black. Unclipped jacket very good but a bit grubby with a few chips and tears.

Seller: The Mill Bookshop, Gatehouse of Fleet, United Kingdom

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Essays Of Travel. Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Red morocco, VG. viii+230pp, all edges gilt, gilt decoration to the spine, leather a little rubbed to the spine. Publisher's St Martin's Library series. A collection of 14 essays on travel. Subjects covered include his trip on board the Devonia from London to New York in August of 1879, his British walks & his trips to the Alps, etc. 200 grams.

Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. ON THE CHOICE OF A PROFESSION. Chatto & Windus Ltd., London, 1916.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition/impression was as this, October 1916. In his Foreword, Lloyd Osbourne explains that this essay was composed in Saranac in the winter of 1887-88 but was considered "too cynical, too sombre" for publication so it lay in a bundle of old papers for nearly 30 years. Osbourne credits the piece with a grim humour. The reader decides. Paper-covered boards with cloth backstrip. Modern bookplate, not signed. 10 x 14cms with 28pp. We regret we are not able to dispatch orders to Denmark. All profits to Amnesty International.

Seller: Books for Amnesty, Malvern, Great Malvern, United Kingdom

STEVENSON Robert Louis. The Waif Woman. Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 44 pp. Grey boards w. blue spine. Spine sound but colour faded, bumped at btm. Title printed on cover, spine plain. Some staining on lower half of rear cover. Foxing on first page, (blank), Lt foxing on title page and at edge of some pages. Blue top edge. Side & btm edges rough-cut. The unpublished story was preserved among Mrs Stevenson's papers. A tale in the style of the Norse sagas. Nice, neat copy.

Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom

STEVENSON Robert Louis. The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. Chatto & Windus 1916 (pocket edition), 1916.

Price: US$14.30 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: spine bumped, minor marks to covers, very good; 280 pages

Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Chatto and Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Gilt top edge. 176 pp. Shelf wear. Bookplate inside front cover. Signature of "Captain Crawford" on 2nd free endpaper. Tight and clean. This is an attractive antique copy of Stevenson's classic travel memoir. 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.. On The Choice of a Profession.. London, Chatto and Windus, 1916., 1916.

Price: US$15.45 + shipping

Description: First Book Edition; Sm. 8vo; pp. 30; purplecloth spine with original printed boards; head edge tinted purple; other edges untrimmed; endpapers slightly discoloured; boards bumped; light flecking to page edges; otherwise very good copy. First book edition; with a foreword by Lloyd Osbourne. A rarely encountered book.

Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia

Stevenson, Robert Louis. On the Choice of a Profession. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$16.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Wear to DJ edges with chips and creasing, light foxing and tanning to feps, edges untrimmed. ; DJ now protected with archival quality detachable Melinex. ; 0.1 x 5.7 x 4 inches; 28 pages; Quarter-bound in grey boards with purple cloth spine, purple lettering to cover.

Seller: C P Books Limited, Oxted, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson. Essays of Travel. Chatto and Windus, 1916.

Price: US$16.57 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1916. Chatto and Windus. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles, maroon leather boards. Edgewear. Top edge gilt. 7x5

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes / by Robert Louis Stevenson ; with a frontispiece by Walter Crane. London : Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$16.65 + shipping

Description: Previous owner's signature. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 176 p., [1] leaf of plates. Subjects: France Description and travel.Cévennes Mountains (France). 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Robert Louis Stevenson. On the Choice of a Profession. Chatto and Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 28pp. Previously unpublished essay. Purple cloth spine with grey papers laid on. Dustjacket is darkened and has fraying to top and bottom of spine

Seller: PEND BOOKS, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson. On the Choice of a Profession. Chatto and Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$22.09 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 28pp. Previously unpublished essay. Purple cloth spine with grey papers laid on. Dj has some holes to spine and chipping top and bottom of spine.

Seller: PEND BOOKS, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom

STEVENSON Robert Louis,. The waif woman.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$22.27 + shipping

Description: In 24, p. 43 (3), leg. orig. in mz. tl. violetto e piatti in cartone; qualche brunitura, firma di possesso al verso del front. - Prima ediz. postuma. Peso articolo: 1

Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Palatina, San Casciano V.P., FI, Italy

Stevenson, Robert Louis [1850-1894]. On the Choice of a Profession. Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd, 42 William IV Street, London First Edition . London 1916., 1916.

Price: US$22.75 + shipping

Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter grey paper covered boards, faint violet title and author lettering to the upper panel, violet cloth spine. 12mo. 6'' x 4''. Contains 28 printed pages of text. Front free end paper neatly cut away, small ink ownership name to the front paste down, rubbing to the paper boards, no dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 20 other titles by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. STEVENSON, Robert Louis

Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom

R.L.Stevenson:. The Waif Woman. London, Chatto and Windus, 1916, 1916.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Description: first. Short story. 5 3/4 x 4 inches. Owner's name on free fep. Blue cloth spine with beige paper laid on. Slight rubbing to corners. VG

Seller: PEND BOOKS, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Waif Woman. Chatto and Windus, 1916.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Description: First publication of this ephemeral short folk tale, 'found in the papers of the late Mrs Stevenson'. VG in frayed and torn jacket

Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes / by Robert Louis Stevenson ; with a frontispiece by Walter Crane. London : Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$27.94 + shipping

Description: Previous owner's signature. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 176 p., [1] leaf of plates. Subjects: France Description and travel.Cévennes Mountains (France). 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Floral decorative end papers, former owner's stamped name on second ffep, aged second rear free endpaper, else clean and tight. Spine-sunned green cloth binding, bumping, with light fraying to head and foot of spine, bumped corners, sunned spine, lightly character-soiled boards. 176p. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis.. ON THE CHOICE OF A PROFESSION.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1916., 1916.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Cloth backed paper covered boards, uncut. (14.5cm). pp. 27. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light cover soil, cap and corner wear.

Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894. On the choice of a profession / by Robert Louis Stevenson. London : Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$31.18 + shipping

Description: Very good copy in the original cloth-backed boards. Title printed on front panel. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 27 pages; Physical description: 27 p. ; 15 cm. Title-page in red and black. Subjects: Occupations. Referenced by: Beinecke 702. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE WAIF WOMAN. First Edition, boards. London, 1916. Alfred Sutro bookplate. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Original paper-covered boards over cloth spine, title on cover. Small octavo. Alfred Sutro bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers.

Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Robert Louis Stevenson. The Waif Woman. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$38.92 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 43 p. First edition, first printing. Grey boards, purple cloth back, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Shelf wear to edges, couple of small closed tears to edges, some foxing and tanning to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Seller: Springhead Books, Rochester, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson.. On the Choice of a Profession.. Chatto & Windus, London 1916, 1916.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Hardback. Twelvemo. 28pp. Original quarter purple cloth over grey boards with purple titles to front. Slight fading to spine, slight foxing to endpapers, otherwise very good indeed in a slightly rubbed and dusty, slightly edge torn and chipped, near very good dust jacket.

Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom

Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894. On the choice of a profession / by Robert Louis Stevenson. London : Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$43.60 + shipping

Description: Very good copy in the original cloth-backed boards. Title printed on front panel. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 27 pages; Physical description: 27 p. ; 15 cm. Title-page in red and black. Subjects: Occupations. Referenced by: Beinecke 702. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1916.

Price: US$45.48 + shipping

Description: 8vo. (viii), 193, (3) pp. Contemporary quarter vellum over red cloth sides, spine with a gilt lettered red label and Art Deco gilt tooling, top edge gilt. Very good.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

Stevenson Robert Louis:. The Waif Woman.. London, Chatto & Windus, 1916., 1916.

Price: US$46.78 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This story was found amongst Mrs Stevenson's papers, and not published until 1916. First edition. 24mo, 44pp. Original drab card covers, purple cloth spine unlettered, title on front board. Some creasing to boards, corners bumped, else nr VG.

Seller: St Paul's Bookshop P.B.F.A., Peterborough, United Kingdom

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. On the Choice of a Profession. Chatto & Windus, LONDON, 1916.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Introduction by Lloyd Osbourne. 28 pages, 16mo, cloth-backed boards. London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. First Edition. Fine. A previously unpublished essay. Beinecke 702.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS.. On The Choice of a Profession. London: Chatto & Windus, 1916, 1916.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

STEVENSON, Robert Louis.. On the choice of a profession.. Chatto & Windus,, London:, 1916.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: 16mo. 27, [1] pp. Title in red & black. Quarter lavender-coloured cloth over beige boards, lavender lettering on front cover (slight bumping to 1 corner), w/ d.j. lettering printed in lavender (dustsoiling, 1 minor closed tear), NF/VG copy. First edition in book form, of this posthumously published essay that the author had first composed in Saranac in the winter of 1887-1888, but according to his stepson appeared to have likely decided it was more likely to depress rather than encourage the prospective artist, or author.

Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. On the Choice of a Profession. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$75.81 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 24 Mo. (13.5 cm x 9.5 cm). Pp. [28], deckled edges, title-page in red and black. Grey boards, backed with deep violet cloth. Very good, clean copy, housed in a soiled dust wrapper with chips to the tips and spine ends.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Robert Louis Stevenson. On the Choice of a Profession. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$97.45 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first edition of this post-humously discovered work by the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson. 'On the Choice of a Profession' was unpublished in Stevenson's lifetime, and was first published in 'Scribner's Magazine' in 1915. This copy was the first time the essay was issued in book form. Complete with the uncommon original dustwrapper. In a quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards, complete with unclipped dustwrapper in protective Brodart wraps. Externally, smart, some slight rubbing to cloth and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with light spotting to first and last few pages. Dustwrapper very smart with minor marking, discolouration and chipping. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson. On the Choice of a Profession. Chatto and Windus, 1916.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: very good copy of a small book, Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng

Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada

STEVENSON, Robert Louis.. On the Choice of a Profession.. Chatto & Windus. 1916, 1916.

Price: US$107.86 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title. Uncut in orig. boards, purple cloth spine. Contemp. ink monogram on leading f.e.p. v.g. [28]pp. Prideaux 73; without d.w. Written in Saranac in the winter of 1887-88, and suppressed until this publication, 22 years after his death.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson. The Waif Women. Chatto and Windus, 1916.

Price: US$145.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: very good, small book Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng

Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. On the choice of a profession. Chatto & Windus, London, 1916.

Price: US$218.75 + shipping

Description: First separate and first book edition, 16mo, pp. 27, [3]; orig. printed dust-jacket soiled and with a few short tears and splits around the edges. First published in Scribner's Magazine, January, 1915. Prideaux 73 and Beinecke 702, neither mentioning the printed jacket.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.