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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Prince Otto. A Romance.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1885.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: viii, 300 pages, plus 32 pages advertising dated April 1895. A little wear and soiling on covers.
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Prince Otto, A Romance. Chatto & Windus, London, 1885.
Price: US$87.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light blue with red scattered flowers is rubbed with corners bumped. Spine is tanned with dulling. Top spine has a 1" tear with wear at top.This is a stated second edition. 299 plus 32 pages of lists of books dated October 1885. Pages are lightly tanned but are clean, tight and unmarked.
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Prince Otto: A Romance. Chatto & Windus, London, 1885.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, 1885. First Edition, later issue. Octavo. 300 pages + 32 pages publisher's advertisements dated "July, 1885." Publisher's green cloth with red floral pattern and spine lettered in gilt. Floral endpapers. Boards worn at extremities with exposure. Spine toned. Repair to spine ends, rear hinge, and rear endpaper. Patchy loss to rear pastedown. Front hinge starting but overall binding holding soundly. Bookseller stamp to half title. Pages toned but unmarked. [Beinecke 328].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. PRINCE OTTO, A Romance. Chatto & Windus: London, 1885.
Price: US$109.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7.5 x 5", patterned cloth, 300pp + 32pp catalogue, covers quite worn, extremities bumped and fraying, rear outer hinge torn, pp toned and used; a rather well worn copy of the FIRST EDITION with ads dated January 1885.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. PRINCE OTTO a Romance. Chatto & Windus, London, 1885.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Same publication year as the first edition. 300 pages plus 32 pages of publisher's advertising. Pages are in very good, clean condition; edges yellowed and a little stained. Very occasional small stains throughout the book. Grey patterned endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on the fep. Blue cloth with red decoration. Gilt titles on the spine. Spine and edges yellowed and a little stained. Small tears at the head/tail of spine. Corners bumped and a little frayed. Binding good and tight. Scarce. GOOD+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. PRINCE OTTO. , 1885.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: STEVENSON, Robert Louis. PRINCE OTTO. A Romance. London: Chatto & Windus, 1885. First edition. 8vo., decorative olive cloth, spine in gilt. Ex-library, no external marks; three bookplates, small catalogue description tipped into rfep, discreet blind-stamp to title page. Binding is lightly skewed, with some spotting to spine; slight bumps to opening corner and edge of rear board, with touch of fraying to cloth at extremes. Mild soil to boards, with a small patch of dampstain to rear board; dust soil to top-edge. Hinges starting. (Prideaux 13). A reasonably good copy of an unusual Stevenson item, offered with all faults:.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Prince Otto: A Romance. Chatto & Windus, London, 1885.
Price: US$150.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small Octavo. Pp. viii, 300, 32-page publisher's catalogue, dated April 1885, stitched in at rear. Beautifully rebound by Blackwell in half red morocco and marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine lettering, top edge gilt, matching marbled endpapers. Copper engraved bookplate by the highly collectible bookplate artist, Edwin Davis French for Arnold Wood (1898) to front pastedown. Interior fine, clean and bright. Covers and spine a bit tanned with very minor rubbing, else a very good to near fine copy. Prideaux 13.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Robert Louis Stevenson. Prince Otto A Romance. Chatto and Windus, London, 1885.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: Robert Louis Stevenson's third full-length work, Prince Otto. Second edition. Robert Louis Stevenson was a popular Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. He is better known for 'Treasure Island' and the 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.' In a half-calf binding. Externally, sound, though with some rubbing. Joints are starting. Wear to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with just a few handling marks. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Prince Otto: A Romance. Chatto & Windus, London, 1885.
Price: US$185.95 + shipping
Description: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 300pp. + advts. Adverts dated January 1885. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Boards rubbed. Spine lean. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. Some browning within
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Prince Otto, A Romance.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1885.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. viii, 300, 32 [ads]. Original teal cloth decorated with purple floral motif, spine lettered in gilt. A touch of spotting, a few marginal tears not touching text. A little rubbed and dulled, spine ends bumped. Armorial bookplate of Oliver Nowell Chadwyck-Healey to pastedown, covering earlier bookplate. The first issue, with ads to the rear dated April 1885, of Stevenson?s follow-up novel to Treasure Island. In a letter to poet William Ernest Henley during its composition, Stevenson described Prince Otto as ?queer and a little, little bit free; and some of the parties are immoral; and the whole thing is not a romance, nor yet a comedy; nor yet a romantic comedy; but a kind of preparation of some of the elements of all three in a glass jar.? Prideaux 13.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Robert Louis Stevenson. Prince Otto, A Romance. London: Chatto and Windus, 1885.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: viii, 300, (32, ads dated Jan. 1885) pp. Hardcover, bound in decorative cloth. The edges rubbed, crease to the rear board, the text with a few corner creases. [Bx92]
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Prince Otto. A Romance. Chatto & Windus, London, 1885.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. viii, 300 pp., 32 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 328 Three quarter brown morocco, t.e.g. Very fine viii, 300 pp., 32 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 300 pp. Hardcover, bound in gilt-tooled full blue morocco, all edges gilt, by Donnelly, Chicago (possibly the work of Alfred De Sauty, who was there 1923-1935), the front panel inset with a hand-painted miniature signed by Saintet. The text block with marginal tanning and some nicks to the fore-edge. The binding lightly rubbed with minor loss of gilt.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. PRINCE OTTO A Romance. Chatto & Windus, 1885.
Price: US$19248.98 + shipping
Description: First edition. Original blue-green cloth with red floral motif and gilt titles to spine. Author's presentation copy to his mother, inscribed, "The author to his mother, Skerryvore, Bournemouth." A very good copy indeed, minor wear to the extremities and fragile hinges. Housed in a custom made quarter morocco box. A fine association copy. The only child of Thomas and Margaret Stevenson, Robert Louis was very sickly as a child and was doted upon by his mother. As he grew up he sustained a strained relationship with his authoritarian and distant father resulting in several fallings out. All this contributed to the unusually close relationship between Stevenson and his mother, who was deeply proud of her son's achievements. Stevenson's presentation copies to her are a testament to the most personal and fundamental of influences. Prince Otto was Stevenson's second published novel, an 'action romance' set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald, and was largely written between April and December 1883. Stevenson notes, "[it] was written at Hyères; it took me about five months" and he called it, "my hardest effort". One of the chapters was rewritten eight times by Stevenson and once by his wife. Nonetheless, on its publication in 1885, it received some very positive reviews. Andrew Lang in the Pall Mall Gazette wrote somewhat floridly that: "it is a book to be drunk in one long breath, like a draught of sunny Moselle from a tapering, iridescent Venetian goblet". Stevenson's novels are seldom seen in commerce.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom