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Stevenson, Robert Louis:. THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS. Chatto and Windus London, 1883.
Price: US$114.48 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, early issue. Small 8vo size, c. 7 x 4.5 inches, pp.6 + 254 + 2 + 32 (publisher'sadvert, dated October 1883), lacks half-title and frontis, hand-sewn headbands, sprinkled edges, hardback in a later binding. Book condition - Good plus; contents generally clean but title page browned and with moderate foxing, and light foxing scattered throughout text block, minor inscription on front flyleaf but none in text, pastedown and flyleaf show fading of colour (blue) around the edges, inner hinges intact with binding firm ; later hardback binding with red cloth spine with black title label and green and red polished, marbled paper on boards ; some rubbing of edges and corners, back clean, spine complete with ends entire, bright gilt title, front clean. Soon after his marriage in May 1880, Stevenson, his wife and her son (by a previous marriage) travelled to Napa Valley, north of San Francisco, and spent the summer at an abandoned mining camp at Mount Saint Helena. His experiences during this time form the basis of this book and provide some interesting views on California during the late 19th century (information from Wikipedia). A first edition with the publisher's catalogue, though in a later binding.
Seller: Peter M. Huyton, Hereford, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. Chatto & Windus, London, 1883.
Price: US$160.27 + shipping
Description: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 254pp. 2nd impression without adverts. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with abrasion to spine
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. Chatto and Windus, New York, 1883.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First state with publisher's catalog dated October, 1883 and "His" missing from last sentence on page 140. Expert, invisible repair to spine, and reinforcement to hinges. A sturdy copy in original cloth.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. Chatto and Windus, London, 1883.
Price: US$351.08 + shipping
Description: Hardback. First edition with "his" omitted on the last but one line p. 140 and the 32pp catalogue bound in. Half bound in black leather with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt borders and 1883 in gilt to tail of spine. Grey marl cloth to boards and leather corners, with gilt bordering edges of the cloth. Marbled endpapers. Frontis. by Jos Strong. Stevenson's travel memoir of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrif, and her son Lloyd Osbourne, at an abandoned mining camp on Mount Saint Helena, Napa Valley, California, in 1880. Minor nick to leather surface in top panel of spine but a bright, clean, square, tight copy of this very attractive first edition. Very good copy
Seller: C L Hawley (PBFA), Skipton, YORKS, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS. Chatto & Windus, 1883.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A FINE FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE Original dark blue beveled cloth with spine title in gilt, in In custom maroon morocco slip box.
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.. THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1883.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original dark blue beveled cloth with spine title in gilt, octavo (5.5 x 7.75 inches), 254pp. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece. Some occasional spotting, but near fine The charming account of Stevenson's sojourn on the slopes of Mount St. Helena at the head of the Napa Valley, during the summer of 1880. Prideaux notes that "The earliest issues of this book have inserted at the end a catalogue. . . dated October 1883, but some copies have a catalogue dated November 1887, showing that the first edition of the book was still in print so late as that year." This copy with no catalogue. The binding here is not described in Prideaux but is presumed to be a "remainder" binding. Cowan p. 615; Prideaux 9; Zamorano 80 #71.
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. Chatto & Windus, London, 1883.
Price: US$454.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First state with publisher's catalogue dated October, 1883 and "His" missing from last sentence on page 140. Original green cloth. 254, 32 pages. Frontispiece. Bookplate of Jacobus Bromley. Binding and text block completely separated. Front free endpaper, half-title, and frontispiece loose. Has some wear to binding, mainly to ends of spine and corners of boards. Some wrinkling to front panel. Has a couple of notes in pencil including "1st Edition, Original binding" on front paste-down. Contents solid.
Seller: Magic Carpet Books, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original dark green decorated cloth, spine bright, some wear to crown and foot of spine, no bookplates, foxing to title page and minor foxing throughout, no writing, endpapers intact, small vintage book store label on bottom of rear pastedown, a very clean and presentable copy. Frontispeice with tissue guard. Ads at rear uncut and dated "October 1883." (Howes S980, Zamorano 80, #71.) Unusual in this nice condition.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Silverado Squatters. Chatto & Windus Piccadilly, London, 1883.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Clean green cloth boards with brown illustrations, lettering and decoration on front and spine and brown device on back. A gilt detail on front. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Frontis tissue intact. Interior is clean and looks unused.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS. Chatto and Windus, London, 1883.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first issue with the October, 1883 terminal ads and the word "His" missing on page 140. Fourteen essays on California's natural features and social life, based upon Stevenson's personal observations while living there (on his honeymoon, in 1880), including his famous description of the San Francisco Bay "sea-fogs" and an early account of the Napa Valley wine industry. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with decorative gilt and brown stamping. The front hinge is just starting and still quite sound. An exquisite example, with some very light rubbing along the extremities. Better than very good. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Howes S980; Zamorano Eighty 71.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS. Chatto & Windus, London, 1883.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-254 [[255: printer's imprint] [256: blank] + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "October, 1883" inserted at rear, inserted frontispiece with tissue guard, original pictorial gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and brown, publisher's monogram stamped in brown on rear panel, top edge untrimmed, fore-edge rough trimmed, slate endpapers. First edition. "Fourteen delightful essays resulting from the author's dwelling high on the side of Mount St. Helena by the entrance to an abandoned silver mine. It contains one of the author's finest sketches, many times reprinted, "The Sea Fogs." - Leslie E. Bliss, Zamarano Eighty 71. "Stevenson spent a year in California, long enough to win his bride and improve his health, culminating in a short honeymoon on the shoulder of Mount St. Helena. From that year came a book, THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS, his transmutation of their sojourn at the abandoned Silverado mine in Napa County, and essays on Monterey and San Francisco which are some of the best things ever written about those places . Volumes and libraries have been written about California, and yet none holds more essential truth than Stevenson's few pages. His account of their sojourn in Napa County is the classic account of that place and time." - Powell, California Classics, pp. 163-174. Powell, California Classics no. 14. Howes S980. Prideaux, p. 24. Touch of rubbing to cloth at spine ends, corner tips, and along outer joints, but a fine copy. A beautiful copy and quite uncommon in such superb condition. (#156230)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., (7 ¾ x 5 ½ inches). Half-title, list of books by the same author. Sepia-toned frontispiece (occasional spotting and browning throughout). Original sage-green cloth decorated and lettered in sepia and gold (extremities bumped, spine lightly faded). Provenance: With the bookplate of Michael Sadleir to the front pastedown. First edition, first issue, with the word "His" omitted on next to last line of page 140, but without the publisher's catalogue. Stevenson rashly immigrated to America to be reunited with his lover Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne in August of 1879. "For the sake of economy and to collect material for a book he sailed from Glasgow to New York by the emigrant ship "Devonia," describing his experiences in "The Amateur Emigrant," part 1 (abridged, 1895; unabridged, 1966). He made a nightmare journey by emigrant train across America to San Francisco and then down the coast to Monterey, where Fanny was living with her children; it is described in part 2 (published in "Across the Plains," 1892). The hardships of the journey and the poverty that he endured wrecked Stevenson's health, and he was ill for much of the time. He broke down completely in March 1880 and came very near death, having the first of the haemorrhages from the lung that plagued the rest of his life. Fanny, who had obtained a divorce from Osbourne in December, took him into her home and nursed him devotedly. Stevenson and Fanny were married in San Francisco on 19 May 1880. They spent their honeymoon in an abandoned mining camp on the slopes of Mount St Helena, overlooking the Napa valley, experiences later described [as here] in "The Silverado Squatters" (1884)" (Ernest Mehew for DNB). Cowan, p. 615; Howes S980.
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.