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Robert Louis Stevenson. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1886 Authorized edition 138 pages no ads in rear. Unmarked text block. Gilt top edge and rough cut leading edge. Manila boards with mottled red covering on spine with gilt lettering red lettering on the front cover. Corners badly worn esposing the cardboard edges. Front board slightly warped, page 137 has a very small chip at right edge else all pages solid and firmly bound.

Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. John W. Lovell Company, New York, 1886.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: WorldCat has a 1887 printing by Frank F. Lovell and Co. in Lovell's Household Library, but none of this edition dated July 23, 1886. Only copy of the 1887 printing is at the Yale University Library. First published by Charles Scribner's Sons on January 5, 1886, preceding the London edition by four days. Softcover, original decorated printed wrappers. Very Good, light wear to wrappers mostly at spine where there is some cracking and bumping to spine ends, amount one inch loss at spine foot, very light wear to edges, wrapper darkened from sun, pages mostly clean with some foxing, pages agetoned heaviest around edges, some water damage and staining to inside edge of text block.

Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Octavo. Hardcover lacking a dust jacket. First edition, the "Authorized edition." Green boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Spine is slanted and the front board is bumped. Rubbing along the edges of the boards, small moisture stain to the fore edge of the text block. This is the first printing, possibly a later state, as this book measures 7 and a quarter inches tall, and has four pages of publisher's advertisements at the end of the book. Book is in good condition.

Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "Authorized Edition" Early printing in 1886. 7 1/8th" tall. Tight binding, solid olive green boards with bright gilt lettering to front board and spine strip, gently rubbed corners and spine ends, previous owner's bookplate to front paste down, name to front end paper, 4 pages of ads to rear. Previous owner, Henry William Rankin (1851 - 1937) of E. Northfield, MA, was librarian at the Northfield Mount Hermon School and a theologian, philosopher, and author. Rankin was a noted correspondent of William James. On late blank pages Rankin pasted in and made hand-written notes regarding Stevenson's life, his literary inspirations as well as R.L.S.'s epitaph.

Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1886.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: Small Octavo, 138 ages with 4 pages of ads. In Good condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt text on spine and front cover. Boards show rubbing and bumping to corners, rubbing and bending to spine edges, and sunning to spine. Text block has water staining throughout with heavier staining to rear pages. Second issue red binding, measures 7 3/16". Shelved in Case 13. 1371203. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1886.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing, second issue with the shorter cloth binding of 7 3/16 inches. This first American edition, published January 5, 1886, preceded the London edition issued in wrappers by four days and in cloth by eleven days. The first issue is slightly larger measuring 7 7/16 inches. This second issue was bound in cloth from first issue sheets that had been trimmed and bound in paper wrappers. The original cloth copies sold out so quickly that copies issued in wrappers had the wraps removed and were bound in cloth to fulfill orders. It is a Gothic text that it explores dark themes of the natural and the supernatural. The book participates in and furthers the Gothic themes of monstrosity, narrative experimentation, and ambiguity, and remains a classic of the genre. In the original green cloth with gilt title to spine and front cover. Light wear to edges, corners, and spine ends. Gentle bump to bottom rear cover. Clean and bright interior. 138 pages with four pages of ads. A highly collectible Gothic tale in near fine condition. LIT/100923.

Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1886.

Price: US$2899.94 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: True First Edition, published on January 5, 1886, preceding the London edition by 4 days. Originally published in yellow printed wrappers but now rebound in black boards with new endpapers and without the wrappers and ads in the back. One of the classics in English literature and a masterpiece in the horror tradition. 3000 wrappered copies were issued and are hard to find today. Beinicke 347. Near Fine.

Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1886.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. First edition in original yellow wrappers. Twenty-eighth thousand. Authorized Edition. Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1886. The U.S. edition preceded the UK edition. Wrappers in very good condition. Some toning to the wrappers and wear to the spine. Contents clean and bright. 138 pages plus ads in back. 5 x 7 ½ inches. Housed in a custom Library of Congress style box. Inventory #21-139. Price: $3500.

Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1886.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition and First American Edition. Original green cloth. Uncommon hardcover printing of this horror classic and Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. A Good or almost Very Good copy, rubbing and wear at spine ends and cover corners, some discoloration at top front cover (perhaps an old label of some kind having been removed), some white spots at spine and white spray at rear spine edge area (presumably from having been left on the shelf while a new coat of paint was applied to the bookcase or wall), front endpaper and pastedown with some shadows from what might have been an early bookcover, rear endpaper and pastdown with some ink shadows and some remnants of an old bookplate, some minor soiling or spotting to some pages, old ink 'L. L. L. A. No. 428' at top title page.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.

STEVENSON, Robert Louis.. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.. New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886.

Price: US$4235.00 + shipping

Description: First US edition, first impression, first state; 8vo (19 x 13 cm); slight toning to leaves, light soiling to prelims; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, light wear to extremities, top edge gilt, some light spotting to publisher's ads and rear endpapers, otherwise a very good example. The first state of the first US edition of Stevenson's Gothic horror classic which preceded the first UK edition by four days and was published on January 5, 1886 in an edition of 1,250 copies in cloth and 3,000 copies in paper wrappers. This is one of the remaining scarce hardback editions issued in green cloth.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1886.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Stevenson's classic gothic novella which preceded the first English edition by four days and was published on January 5, 1886 in an edition of 1,250 copies in cloth and 3,000 copies in paper wrappers. Beinecke 347. Octavo, original olive green cloth lettered in gilt, half-title and 2 pages of Scribner's advertisements at end. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. "If [Bram Stoker's] Dracula leaves one with the sensation of having been struck down by a massive, 400-page wall of horror, then Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is like the sudden, mortal jab of an ice pick" (Stephen King). Leaping to life out of a "fine bogey dream" from which the author's wife abruptly awakened him, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde proved "immediately and lastingly Stevenson's most famous story" (Baugh et al., 1499). "Published as a 'shilling shocker,' a form at that time in fashion, it became instantly popular; was quoted from a thousand pulpits; was translated into German, French and Danish; and the names of its two chief characters have passed into the common stock of proverbial allusion" (DNB). "It is a Faustian moral fable which takes the form of a tale of mystery and horror… [It] is the prototype of all stories of multiple personality, transformation and possession… The psychological power of the writing, including Jekyll's agonies, is patent" (Clute & Nicholls, 1165). "When we thrill to the shock and horror of the story, I think it is because we all, at least to some degree, have been torn by [Jekyll's] internal conflict. When we recoil in terror from the selfish savagery of Mr. Hyde, I think it is because we fear our own secret selves" (Jack Williamson).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1886.

Price: US$15000.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-138 [139-152: ads], original printed yellow wrappers printed in black. First edition. The Scribner edition was published 5 January 1886, four days before the British edition was published by Longmans, Green. 4200 copies were printed of which 3000 were issued in paper wrappers and 1200 issued green cloth. ". a Faustian moral fable which takes the form of a tale of mystery and horror. It precedes Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1891), which in some respects resembles it, by five years, and is the prototype of all stories of multiple personality, transformation and possession; in some respects it is also a tale of drug dependency." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1165. "A classic in the genre, it has been historically one of the most important stories in late Victorian literature." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2094. ". one of the supreme works of horror literature, setting the pattern for and influencing as many imitations as DRACULA." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 402-03. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-141; (1981) 1-153; (1987) 1-86; (1995) 1-86; and (2004) II-1086. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 167. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-93. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1532. Bleiler (ed), Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, pp. 310-11. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 15. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 725. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 17. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1834-39. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2184-89. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-230. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 456. Bleiler (1978), p. 186. Reginald 13663. Beinecke 346. Mild rubbing to edges, small triangular chip from lower right corner of front cover, slight loss at left corner of lower spine end, a very good or somewhat better copy. An unsophisticated copy of the uncommon paperbound issue. Enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box. (#154583)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Stevenson, Robert Louis.. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886., 1886.

Price: US$53354.08 + shipping

Description: 8vo. (8), 141, (3) pp. With one page of advertisements at rear as issued. Original fawn-coloured wrappers lettered in red and blue. Housed in a custom red cloth clamshell case. A literary touchstone of Faustian horror for the industrial age: presentation copy of the first English edition, inscribed on both the cover and the title-page, to "William Slafford, with the Author's Compliments". - "The date upon the front cover was originally 1885, but the last figure was altered by the pen into 6. It had been intended to publish the book in December 1886, 'but when it was ready the bookstalls were already full of Christmas numbers, etc., and the trade would not look at it' (Mr. Charles Longman in Balfour's Life, ii. 14). The publication was therefore postponed till January 1886. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, issued an edition dated 1886" (Prideaux). - Spine and corners creased, lower spine rubbed, light soiling and a faint blindstamp to rear wrapper, binding a touch delicate. In all a fine copy. - Prideaux 17.

Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria