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Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 142 Pp. Vellum Spine And Tips, Gilt, Over Red-Brown Cloth, In Brown Slipcase. One Of 450 Copies (Stated). Slight Signs Of Use And Age, Gilt Brilliant, Spine Slightly Browned, No Marks. Slipcase Very Good, Light Wear With Fraying At Corners Of Open End; Pages New.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Poems Hitherto Unpublished. Bibliophile Society, Boston, 1921.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: frontis (portrait), facsimiles (of manuscript pages), 142pp. 1/2 parchment over brown cloth. Double slipcase. 23cm. Slight soil on backstrip. Outer slipcase sound and intact but shows moderate soil and wear. No Jacket. Edition limited to 450 copies printed for members of the Society.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First Printed Edition. Limited Edition, 1 of 450 Copies. Square Octavo. Faux vellum over brown-orange boards, gilt lettering and decorations at spine, with facsimiles, hitherto unpublished with introduction and notes. Near fine, no slipcase.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small quarto, 142 pages, parchment spine and corners, very fresh; in a doubled publisher's slipcase with damaged paper label One of the 450 copies for members of The Bibliophile Society. The great mass of manuscripts, books, and other personal belongings of R. L. S. sold at auction in New York City in 1914-1915, while much of the world was distracted by The Great War. These poems appear here for the first time, and with a number of facsimiles of the original mss.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Description: One of 450 copies on handmade paper, printed for members of the Society. Octavo (23cm). Half parchment over cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; 142pp. Straight and tight, with slight darkening to vellum on spine; text crisp, clean, and free of foxing. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$74.80 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Bound in half parchment over brown cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, housed in a card slipcase. Tissue guarded frontis portrait and plates. Limited to 450 copies. Near fine copy in a edge worn slipcase.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brown covers with mock vellum backstrip. Uncut pages . Very close to fine except for light sunning on spine. Slipcase (no dust wrapper) iis still solid with very light wear at corners. The spine states, "First printed Edition." ; B&W Facsimile Manuscript Pages; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 142 pages; The Bibliophile Society printed a limited run (450) of this volume in 1921 (Beinecke 717). The Stevenson manuscripts came from the collection of Francis S. Peabody. A note on the back of this title page says that a small Complimentary Edition was printed for Mr. Peabody; the title page itself says, "Privately Printed for Mr. Francis S. Peabody. The size of this edition is not stated, though it must have been small. I also assume that this book is identical to the Limited Edition except for the title page
Seller: The Ridge Books, Calhoun, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition / First printing. Bound in 1/2 vellum over red cloth boards, top edge gilt. Limited to 450 copies. Very good, no dust jacket as issued. In new archival plastic jacket. 18 x 23cm. hard cover. 142pp + facsimiles. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, 142 pages. Limited to 450 copies. Binding is square and tight. Half-bound in glossy black leather with green cloth over boards. Gilt at borders of leather and cloth. Leather on spine piece has faded to a rich brown. Raised bands on spine, edged in gold, with gold scrollwork between bands. Light soiling to cloth at fore edge. Light wear to edges and corners. Endpapers are marbled in shades of pink, turquoise, purple, and yellow. Pages are lightly, uniformly toned, but are clean and free of any stray marks or handwritten notes. Some light foxing to a few pages, but nothing that obscures text or images. Illustrated in black and white with facsimiles of Stevenson's handwritten drafts, and a frontispiece photograph of the poet, all protected by tissue paper. A beautiful book of Stevenson's previously unknown works.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$84.95 + shipping
Description: Boston, Massachusetts:: The Bibliophile Society, 1921. 7" wide by 9" tall. A square, tight copy with sharp corners. Bound in the original reddish-brown cloth with parchment (cream color) spine and corners. Lettered in shiny gold on the spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Double slipcase in matching reddish-brown cloth, with paper label on the outer slipcase. Paper label is intact, albeit mildly age-toned with some spots. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are bright white, crisp, and free of markings. NO foxing. One of 450 copies. Printed for members only. Engraved title page. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of R.L.S. and several Stevenson manuscripts in facsimile -- all tissue-guarded. With an Introduction and Notes by George S. Hellman and William P. Trent. Beinkeke 717. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Very Good double slipcase. 142pp.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition is Very Good in boards; in a Very Good double slipcase. Some minor foxing. Minor wear to exterior-most slipcase. Text is clean and unmarked, frontispiece, illustrated with facsimile manuscript pages. Limited to 450 copies. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Poems. Hitherto Unpublished. The Bibliophile Society, Boston, 1921.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of these poems, the earliest of which is dated 1866. One of 450 copies printed for members of the Bibliophile Society. Introduction and Notes by George S. Hellman and William P. Trent. 142pp. Frontispiece portrait, nine facsimiles. Three-quarter vellum over rust cloth sides. A hint of foxing to extreme fore-edge of text block, but a fine copy in very good double slipcase. The facsimiles are of Stevenson's manuscripts. Includes an index of titles and first lines.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Bibliophile Society printed a limited run (450) of these volumes in 1921 (Beinecke 717). The Stevenson manuscripts came from the collection of Francis S. Peabody. A note on the back of this title page says that a small Complimentary Edition was printed for Mr. Peabody; the title page itself says, "Privately Printed for Mr. Francis S. Peabody. Mr. Peabody was a wealthy American coal baron nd the founder of Peabody Coal. The size of this edition is not stated, though it must have been small. I also assume that this book is identical to the Limited Edition except for the title page. Brown covers with mock vellum backstrip. Uncut pages . Very close to fine except for light sunning on spine. Slipcases (no dust wrapper) is still solid with very light wear at corners. The spines state, "First printed Edition." ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 195,142 pages
Seller: The Ridge Books, Calhoun, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stevenson, Robert Louis. POEMS BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED With Introduction and Notes by George S. Hellman and William P. Trent. Privately printed for Mr. Francis S. Peabody, Chicago, MCMXXI. Frontispiece portrait of Stevenson. First Printed Edition (so stated on the spine of the book), a special limited printing from the same type used in the arguably inadequate 1916 Bibliophile Society two-volume printing of this title. In short, the Bibliophile Society produced this more attractive presentation of the text of Stevenson's unpublished manuscripts in order to honor Frances S. Peabody who rescued the bulk of Stevenson's unpublished work which surfaced, overlooked by one and all, during the tumult of World War One. This "small complimentary edition" collects the complete text of the original Stevenson manuscripts that Peabody himself acquired and provides photographic reproductions of the manuscripts themselves. A Fine, bright copy in original publisher's boards and slipcase.
Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.