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Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: HB Ten Thousand edition. See pic. Red cloth boards. Black titles + 2 figure illust front. Gilt titles + black swords and candle illust spine. 19.2 x 14cm. 332 pages + 18 pages of publisher listings, some of these pages uncut. Light floral illusts on e/ps. Condition: Loss of colour to red cloth on boards, front and back. Age discoloured on spine. Small tear bottom of spine. Spine split bottom left seam but still adhering. Wear on spine + corners. o/p stain bottom edge. Opening and closing pages age spots. Few fox spots on some pages, but in the main clean, little wear, binding firm, overall good colour. Good minus condition due to boards.
Seller: Buybyebooks, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 332. 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, slanting and sunning to spine, light foxing throughout; very good.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894). The master of Ballantrae. London, etc. : Cassell & Co., 1889.
Price: US$43.96 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original title-blocked cloth; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; viii, 332 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Fiction. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London:Cassell and Company, Ltd. 1889. 1st edition. viii+332pp+20pp ads. Hardcover. Red boards, decorated in black, with title in gilt on spine are soiled and shelfworn, with spine strip darkened and gilt/text dulled. Internally, floral end pages slightly age toned, with a few bookseller notations, but free of previous owners marks or signatures. Paper throughout is slightly age toned but clean. The binding is tight, but cocked, with hinges still intact. Overall, a good solid copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 332 [20, ads] pp. 8vo, original red cloth decorated in black. First edition. McKay 487. Good to very good, a little shaken; with some spotting and wear to the cloth; ink ownership signature to pastedown; corner of half-title torn away.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. MASTER OF BALLANTRAE. , 1889.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: STEVENSON, Robert Louis. THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE. A Winter's Tale. London: Cassell & Company, 1889. First edition. 8vo., red pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Ink ownership. Hinges cracked; slight soiling and rubbing to cloth, wear to extremes; residue, offsetting from bookseller's label to rear endpapers. Just a good copy.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue with July 1889 Ads. Octavo. Original red cloth over boards, black printed lettering and illustrations at front cover, gilt lettering at spine, floral end papers. Good, spine darkened, chip at spine head, small stains at front cover, spine ends and corners slightly bumped, text block cracked at page 144 and 160, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$46.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1889 First Edition Hardback NO Dust Jacket. Good condition, with stains to covers, rubbing and bumping to the spine. Tanned edge paper. Bright and clean inside. Published by Cassell, London.
Seller: Eurobooks Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter's Tale. Cassell & Company, London, 1889.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo. (viii) 332pp. (+ 20 pages of publisher's ads at the back). Red illustrated buckram boards with black lettering on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Floral ednapapers. This a first edition of Stevenson's sixth published novel, an adventure story of two brother set against the backdrop of Jacobite rising of 1745. Binding with some rubbing and bumping to extremities and along edges, including the head and tail of the spine. Spine lightly stained and cocked. Back cover with some dark smudges. Light stains to the bottom of the book block. Interior with starting at pages, 112, 128, 160, 240, and 288. Light stains to the interior back cover and rear free endpapers. Binding in good-, interior in good condition overall.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.75 + shipping
Description: 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. Date is suggested. Physical description: 16, 134p. Subjects: Brothers Scotland; Fiction. Inheritance and succession; Fiction. Absence and presumption of death; Fiction. Sibling rivalry; Fiction. Revenge; Fiction. Scotland History 18th century; Fiction. Genre:Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red cloth, illustration of two men in 18th C. garb on front, spine slightly askew, very light wear to spine edges, very tiny tear at spine bottom edge, tiny surface pin hole and two very tiny tears at bottom back edge, 332 pages plus 20 pages of ads. Good +.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894). The master of Ballantrae. London, etc. : Cassell & Co., 1889.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original title-blocked cloth; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; viii, 332 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Fiction. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. viii, 332, (4,16 ads dated 5G.7.89). Hardcover, bound in cloth. Moderate shelf-wear, the spine faded; bookplate.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1889. This is a Very Good (minus) copy of the First Edition. Red cloth decorative binding with two Georgian figures in black on the front cover. Clean text; four pages of publisher's adverts, followed by 16 that are unpaginated. This copy has the correction on page 41; fourteen "Uniform" titles listed opposite the half-title. Previous-owner initials on half-title, dated 1889. Internally this is a strong Very Good; however externally it is a bit on the heavily-used side: bumped corners, some creasing, mildly cocked, darkened spine. Not too bad, but heavily soiled, making it seem grubby. This is a solid Reading Copy, but not for the advanced collector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue with July 1889 Ads. Octavo. Original red cloth over boards, black printed lettering and illustrations at front cover, gilt lettering at spine, floral end papers. Very good, spine darkened, spine ends and corners bumped, light wear to binding, printed painting of author at front pastedown, pages and edges lightly foxed, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$67.60 + shipping
Description: 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. Date is suggested. Physical description: 16, 134p. Subjects: Brothers Scotland; Fiction. Inheritance and succession; Fiction. Absence and presumption of death; Fiction. Sibling rivalry; Fiction. Revenge; Fiction. Scotland History 18th century; Fiction. Genre:Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Original red publisher's cloth. viii, 332 pp. plus 4 pp., [16] pp. of ads. Book has been professionally rebound, with original cloth transferred to new boards. Bumping to corners. Several signatures on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This is a first edition, early issue (tenth thousand) of Stevenson's classic historical romance novel. Ads dated 5.G-7.89. (Prideaux 27) 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.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 332 [20, ads] pp. 8vo, original red cloth decorated in black. First edition. McKay 487. Slightly shelf-slanted, with a lightly soiled spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Master of Ballantrae A Winter's Tale. Cassell and Company, London, 1889.
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition, early issue of Robert Louis Stevenson's historical novel The Master of Ballantrae A Winter's Tale. A first edition early printing copy with 5.B.11. 89 to the adverts, published in the November of 1889. Also with the issue point of a missing 'l' to the footnote of page 41.The Master of Ballantrae A Winter's Tale is a historical action novel that focuses on the conflict between two bothers. The brothers are Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.With eighteen pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with some fading to the spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge and rear hinge are starting and remain generally firm. Internally, firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with some scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.. The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter's Tale.. , 1889.
Price: US$82.90 + shipping
Description: London: Cassell & Company, 1889. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. (332, 20pp.). With contemp. adverts. Toning on end-papers. 1st edition.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Master of Ballantrae. Cassell, London, 1889.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Very good. no d.j. First edition first printing.Red boards with black lettering on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial cover. 332 pp. plus adds. 14 Sevenson titles listed opposite title page. Precedes the U.S. edition by one day. Minor soiling to cover, else This is a nice clean copy, the spine is solid, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. We provide fast and reliable shipping service. We started to sell on the internet in 1998. We ship from California. All our books are guaranteed.
Seller: Valley Books, Cupertino, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Original red publisher's cloth. viii, 332 pp. plus 4 pp., [16] pp. of ads. Minor scuffing to cloth and sunning to spine. Tear along left edge of spine. Spine is intact but splitting at pp. 112/113, 144/145, and 176/177. Bookplate inside front cover. Contemporary signature on half-title. A good+ copy. This is a first edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic historical romance novel. Ads dated 5.G-7.89. (Prideaux 27) 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.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Cloth. viii, 332 pp. plus 4 pp., [16] pp. of ads. Book has been professionally rebound. Bumping to corners. Minor foxing throughout. A very good copy. This is a first edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic historical romance novel. Ads dated 5.G-7.89. (Prideaux 27) 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.
Price: US$102.61 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: viii - 332 pp top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate to the front paste down. Bound without the adverts in half burgundy morocco, titles in gilt on spine, raised bands with compartments ruled in gilt cloth sides by Sotherans The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions or marks. The binding clean and tight with no marks chips or splits.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Master of Ballantrae. Cassell, London, 1889.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in red cloth the front board has two gentlemen and the title in black, faded spine has title and crossed swords and a candlestick in black and gilt bumped corners. Lovely book plate of a former owner. 332 pp. plus adverts at rear.
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter's Tale.. Cassell, London, 1889.
Price: US$128.27 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Neat ink name to htp, crack tof ront gutter - causing some pages to come loose. Minor foxing. Some dampstaining to boards. Spine a little sunned and bumped. 'L' missing from the word should on p.41. Size: 8vo 0.0
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Original red publisher's cloth. viii, 332 pp. plus 4 pp., [16] pp. of ads. Slight cock to spine. Front hinge overopened. Two bookplates inside front cover. Tight and clean. An excellent copy. This is a first edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic historical romance novel. Ads dated 5.G-7.89. (Prideaux 27) 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.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-vii] viii [1] 2-332 [333-336: ads] + [16]-page publisher's catalogue dated "5 G. 7-89 and 5 B. 7-89." original pictorial red cloth, front and rear panels stamped in black, spine panel stamped in black and gold, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in gray. First edition. "Stevenson's most intense psychological study of fraternal rivalry" (Sutherland). Prideaux 27. Spine lean (a fault common to this book), spine a bit darkened, top edge of text block dusty, ink stain on bottom edge of rear cover and bottom edge of sheets (no penetration into margins), a very good copy, internally tight and clean. (#173091)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. viii, 332 pp. complete with the half-title. attractively bound in blue half morocco, raised bands, gilt. T.E.G. Excellent First Edition Copy of this Robert Louis Stevenson classic.
Seller: HALEWOOD : ABA:ILAB : Booksellers :1867, PRESTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$168.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Pp. viii, 332, 4 - publ. adverts, + 16-page publ. catalogue dated 5G.7.89 & 5B.7.89. Red cloth lettered in black ornamented with figures on the cover and crossed swords on the spine with gilt lettering. Covers dust soiled and darkened, otherwise very good copy with previous owner's signature in pencil to half-title. Prideaux 27, p.67.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Original red publisher's cloth. viii, 332 pp. plus 4 pp., [16] pp. of ads. Sunning to spine and top edge of front board. Slight cock to spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Tight and clean. An excellent copy. This is a first edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic historical romance novel. Ads dated 5.G-7.89. (Prideaux 27) 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.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 332 [20, ads] pp. 8vo, original red cloth decorated in black. First edition. McKay 487. An attractive copy, slightly dust-soiled.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Original red publisher's cloth. viii, 332 pp. plus 4 pp., [16] pp. of ads. Minor scuffing to cloth and sunning to spine. Bookplate inside front cover. Minor foxing throughout. Tight and clean. An excellent copy. This is a first edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic historical romance novel. Ads dated 5.G-7.89. (Prideaux 27) 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.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of this Robert Louis Stevenson classic. Contemporary rebinding in blue quarter-leather with raised headbands over marbled paper and leather corners. The condition is very good with moderate wear to the extremities and the spine folds are split but the covers are firmly attached. This book needs a little TLC. 332 pages.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$214.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo, Pp. 332. advertisements. floral endpages. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, First Issue with adverts dated 5.G-7.89 and 'L' missing from the word "should" on p.41. Tight binding clean pages, some fade to spine. Owner stamp to title page.
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE; A winter's tale. Cassell, London, 1889.
Price: US$224.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 332. Bookplate on pastedown, remnants of old royal library bookplate on cover, Light foxing, hinges tender, very good. With inserted advertisements dated 7/89 as called for.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE. A Winter's Tale. , 1889.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1889. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1889. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition (published on the day before the Scribner's one), with the proper July ads. Stevenson freely acknowledged that his inspiration for this book was Robert Marryat's THE PHANTOM SHIP (1839), which he had recently read. RLS began writing BALLANTRAE in Saranac Lake in 1887 but did not finish it until his first South Seas voyage in 1889. The verso of this copy's front free endpaper lists only ten titles; some copies have a list of twelve or fourteen (priority unknown, but fewest should be best). A tough book to find in decent condition, this copy is very good-plus (spine a little faded and dull, minor soil) -- also the leaves were roughly opened, in one case affecting text. Beinecke 487 (cites only a copy listing 14 titles); Princeton 41A (copy [1] -- mentions copies with all three lists).
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Master of Ballantrae - A Winter's Tale. Cassell & Company, 1889.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Master of Ballantrae" - A Winters's Tale by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 1889 1st edition, 1st printing (with publisher's catalog at the back dated July, 1889 and no printing designation stated on the title page); Cassell & Company; London. Decorative floral end papers. From a review: "Stevenson's brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme - the elemental struggle between good and evil - as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottish history. When two brothers attempt to split their loyalties between the warring factions of the 1745 Jacobite rising, one family finds itself tragically divided." Condition: Light soiling to the front and back covers, heavier soiling on the spine. Tiny cloth tears at the outer corner tips of the front cover. Small cloth tears at the top and bottom edges of the spine. Tight binding with no loose pages. There is a crack at the front hinge between the end paper and pastedown resulting in the front cover being just a bit shaky. Nice interior - the pages are mostly clean with only a few random, light smudges found and some light foxing to the end papers and to the first few and last few pages. There is name written in old handwriting in pen on the half title page. Overall the book is in Very Good condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 332 [20, ads] pp. 8vo, original red cloth decorated in black. First edition. McKay 487. A nice copy with a few light spots and slight dust-soiling to the cloth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter's Tale. Cassell & Company, London, 1889.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: vii, 332, [4], [16] p. 20 cm. Red cloth with black impressing, patterned endpapers. A little soiling to cloth. Spine darkened with small tears in ends and rear hinge and scuff towards bottom. Corners bumped. Tiny label front pastedown. First serialized in Scribner's Magazine, The Master of Ballantrae relates the conflict between two brothers and the struggle between good and evil. Narrated by Mackellar, the family's loyal steward, this dark adventure story begins in Scotland during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 but includes piracy on the high seas, adventures in India and a final struggle in America. First Edition, First Issue with ads dated "5G.7.89" ie. July 1889.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 332pp. Three-quarter brown morocco. Four raised bands, title in gilt on spine. Matching marbled paper boards and endpapers. All edges gilt. An early issue of the first edition, with the "l" missing from "should" on the footnote of page 41. Includes half-title. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Solid text block, faint foxing to fore edge and endpapers, lightly bumped corners. Lacking the publisher's ads at the rear. A well-presenting example.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$299.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. viii,332pp. +4,[16]pp. (publisher's ads)pp. Small Octavo (approximately 7.5" tall) in original pictorial red cloth and light grey patterned endpapers. very good
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Master Of Ballantrae. London Cassell & Company 1889, 1889.
Price: US$378.39 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original red decorative cloth lettered in gilt on spine and in black on upper board. A little spotting to edges otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Master of Ballantrae. Cassell, London, 1889.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pictorial red cloth, stamped in black. London: Cassell, 1889. First Edition. A better than average copy. Slightly askew with a little binding soil; ownership signature; small portrait of the author pasted on the flyleaf. 12 titles listed opposite the half-title. Ads correctly dated 7.89.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First / First with the July,1889 ads at the rear. Original publishers bright red pictorial cloth boards with titling, figures and design on front, spine and rear. Spine panel is slightly soiled and faded and has well done tape repair on top and bottom. Book is tight, square and flawless inside other than prior owners name in pencil and inscription on copyright page that states "F.W. Stone - Carlton Lodge." Stevenson's exciting novel of familial conflict and adventure set in the middle of the 18th century. Stevenson wrote the book while travelling extensively in the US and the Pacific, and the end of the book features an exciting and memorable confrontation in the American wilderness. The Master of Ballantrae was adapted into a 1953 film, starring Errol Flynn and again later in the 1980's.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Master of Ballantrae. Cassell & Company, London, 1889.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Issue with the July ads at the rear. Near Fine. Original publisher's binding remarkably bright, lightly bumped at the corners, a negligible amount of fading at the spine. Square and firmly bound, a spot of toning on the front endpaper, incredibly clean and tight with some pages remaining uncut. Stevenson's classic novel that plays on the evil twin trope when Henry Durie effectively becomes his thought-to-be-deceased brother, the true Master of Ballantrae, James. Twice adapted to film, first in 1953 starring Errol Flynn and again in 1984 starring Michael York.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.