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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Prince Otto. Scribner Classics, 1916.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stevenson, Robert Louis: PRINCE OTTO New York, New York:Scribner Classics. 1916 . VG / NA. 298 PP. 8vo. Black publisher's cloth with gilt title on the front cover and spine. In brodart sleeve. Top page edges are gilted. Pages are clean, unmarked and square. In wonderful condition.
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 7 x 10 in. Black cloth boards with color litho. Gilt upper text edge. Color endpapers, title pg and plates. Condition is GOOD ; hinges started and text a bit loose. One plate detached but present, two text pgs detached and damaged. Covers clean, spine ends and corners quite worn with some loss. Color bookplate on half title pg, text unmarked.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1916.
Price: US$21.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No jacket. Smudge on front board, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1916 Hard Cover. xii, 115 pp. Cream boards with red lettering, cameo illustration on front board. Color frontispiece and plates, and black-and-white illustrations by Florence Edith Storer. Scottish novelist, poet and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated A Child's Garden of Verses to Alison Cunningham, the nurse of his early childhood years in Edinburgh?a time whose essence he strove to recapture in the sixty-four poems of this long-treasured collection.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Price: US$26.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1937 reprint. Spine faded with most of gilt lost from titles, faint stain on rear board. 1916 Hard Cover. ix, 328 pp. Black cloth, color label mounted on front board, color illustrated title page, color plates, and illustrated endpapers by N.C. Wyeth. "Set in England during the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses, this swashbuckling historical novel by the author of 'Treasure Island' and 'Kidnapped' tells the story of young Dick Shelton. Betrayed by his treacherous and brutal guardian, Sir Daniel Brackley, Dick seeks the help of John Amend-All, leader of the mysterious fellowship of the Black Arrow?and Brackley's sworn enemy. Pitted against fierce fighters, a treacherous priest, and Sir Daniel, Dick seeks to become a knight and rescue his true love. Brimming with adventure, suspense, and romance, this thrilling tale presents a classic portrait of England during one of its most tumultuous eras, as Dick is pulled by his loyalties to the houses of both York and Lancaster. He must make a crucial choice, for his fate and the fate of England hang in the balance.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE BLACK ARROW A Tale of Two Roses. Scribner's, 1916.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable flexible green leather boards with gilt lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; Contents clean and unmarked except for pen writing with 1917 date on FFEP. No dust jacket. 345pp. Wear to edges of cover, chipping at head and tail of spine, extra wear on spine. Biographical edition. 6.5x4.5" Gilt top page edge. Dampstaining on page edge. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles, Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Estate Books, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (Originally published, 1915) Smaller book, green cloth with embossed title, author and line design in black, white embossed sailing ship on front, 180 lightly browned heavy pages with many illustrations including a map, facsimile letter, photographs, frontispiece photo of Stevenson by Lloyd Osbourne. Very slight surface wear to tips and spine bottom edge, top back tip slightly bumped. Near Very Good.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1916.
Price: US$37.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tan boards, red lettering on spine and front, paste-on illustration of 3 children sailing in a wicker basket ship on front, 115 numbered pages. Eight coloured illustrations, 9 black and white illustrations. Lightly bumped on ends of spine, lettering on spine slightly faded, tiny (1/16 inch) black smudge on front, small smudge on top edge. Front illustration has tiny nick on left side, else near perfect. Faint smudge (3/4 inch) and remains of circular beige stamp (1/2 inch) on ffep, faint thumb mark on title page, faint crease mid page 18, faint crease on lower corner of page 53-59 and 67-99, tiny (1/16 inch) black semi-circle on fore edge page 70, else pages spotless and binding tight. Overall - near fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lindenlea Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Black Arrow. Scribner, 1916.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Beautiful oversized 1916 Scribner's hardcover. Black staining to bottom page edges otherwise nice.
Seller: Collectible Science Fiction, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1916.
Price: US$41.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tan cloth covered boards with a paste down on the front cover of three children sitting in a basket in a field. Cover corners are bumped as well as the top and bottom of the spine. Gift inscription on the FFEP; Jean from Auntie Christmas, 1916. Frontispiece "Fair are grown-up people's trees". Seven full page illustrations in color and nine in black and white. Inside binding has cracked, however all pages are intact and binding is tight. Book pages are clean with no marks. Bookseller Inventory BS/BS 11617 07/2021
Seller: Bookensteins, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Black Arrow. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: black cloth, color paste-down front cover illustration. 1st Scribner Classics Edition
Seller: RP BOOKS, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early reprint of the 1916 edition, with 1929 on the title page; illustrated in color by N. C. Wyeth, including cover paste-on, endpapers, title page, and 9 full-page paintings. The book is unmarked; spine slant; foxing to some pages; wear to corners and spine ends; no dust jacket; Mylar protected.
Seller: Black Falcon Books, Wellesley, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stevenson's sixth full-length work is an adventure and romantic novel set during the War of the Roses, featuring a young man, Richard Shelton,how he becomes a knight, saves his lady, Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father. Early printing, First Scribner's Sons edition, with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. About 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 328 pages in red cloth-covered boards. Front cover features full-color, full-cover illustration of two men in a forest, one holding a crossbow, with title and author on ribbon at top of cover. Lettering on spine is gold and notes illustrator is Wyeth. The inside covers and end pages are decorated with b&w drawings and title page is decorated with painting of three men in armor on horseback. There are 14 Wyeth illustrations spaced throughout the book. This copy is worn with lightly bumped corners and spine ends and some sun-fade to the spine. Front end page shows previous owner's name in pencil. Occasional small stains in text and text block's untrimmed fore and bottom edges show soiling. Front hinge is cracked and binding is somewhat loose but holding well. Overall, text block and Illustrations are clean, complete and unmarked. This makes a good reading/study copy.
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Wyeth edition. Illustrated with 14 color plates, cover label, endpapers, and title page. Very good, no jacket. 2" tear to cloth at rear gutter, light foxing on outer edges of some pages and plates, gilt page tops.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Black Arrow. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1916.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth with color pictorial cover. First (Wyeth Illustrated) Edition. With first edition points "Published October, 1916" and Scribner's seal on copyright page; top edge gilt. 328 pages with pictorial endpapers and 14 color plates. Previous owner's signature on half-title page, spine gilt somewhat rubbed, showing just light wear. Overall, a very good copy of the true first Wyeth illustrated edition Size: Tall Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated, color paper label on the front board and gilt to the top edge of the text block. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 7 inches with several light scratches to the color paper label on the front board, fading to the backstrip of the spine, a 1/4 inch closed tear to the fly title page, some soiling to that same page and light soiling to the forward edge of the title page. Without its very scarce dust jacket. 328 pages of text and illustrated with end sheets, color title page, and 13 of the 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth. It is the last plate facing page 324 which is missing. A clean and collectible copy of this beloved classic story by Robert L Stevenson.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Black Arrow. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth over boards. Pictorial pastedown on cover. Corners are bumped and rubbed, faded on edges. Pastedown is faded. Pictorial endpapers. Color title page and plates. Binding shaken
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$318.01 + shipping
Description: [Historical Fiction] FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.x; 320. With fourteen full-page colour illustrations. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and full size pictorial illustration laid down to upper board, colour printed illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Contents clean, some minor discolour to cloth on rear cover, spine gently sunned. Near fine. A fine historical adventure novel set during the War of the Roses, telling a tale of murder and revenge in medieval England.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-328 pp. Black cloth with an inset illustration by Wyeth on the front board and gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns (also done by Wyeth). Illustrated with a pictorial title page and with fourteen color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Allen 219. N.C. Wyeth completed illustrations for adventure novels like Stevenson's Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, The Boy's King Arthur, and others. Wyeth was a student of Howard Pyle's, and his signature illustration style remains desirable to readers and collectors of today. A giant in modern American illustration, N.C. Wyeth's indelible images remain the standard for depicting the world of pirates, duels, and escapades during the eighteenth century. A Very Good book with minor rubbing to the tips, a name on the half-title page, and a small stamp on the rear pastedown.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.