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Condition: Good
Description: Pentland Edition. Volume 2 Only. Number 85 Of 1550 Limited Copies Of Twenty Volume Set. Hardcover: Good Condition For Age. Dust Jacket: No. Binding Tight And Secure. Pages Clean And Bright Throughout. Corners Bumped And Light Foxing To Ends. Some Evidence Of Repair To Binding.
Seller: Stirling Books, Stirling, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good
Description: Pentland Edition. Volume 3 Only. Number 85 Of 1550 Limited Copies Of Twenty Volume Set. Hardcover: Very Good Condition For Age. Dust Jacket: No. Binding Tight And Secure. Pages Clean And Bright Throughout. Corners Bumped And Light Foxing To Ends.
Seller: Stirling Books, Stirling, United Kingdom
Price: US$77.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good. Publishers navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to spines. Light wear and chipping to the spine heads and tails. Endpapers toned. A little foxed throughout.
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: These 13 of the 20 volumes of Stevenson's Works are bound in red 3/4 cloth w/leather 5-bar ribbing at spine & leather corners. An Ex-Libris bookplate is on every front endpaper. Edges, corners & spine ends are lightly rubbed; gilt titles are all sharp & clear. Foxing to early & late pages & occasional pencil marks on blank pages. Highly readable; well-bound w/occasional crack at gutters.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$901.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original hardcover, hard to find, complete 20-volume set. Limited edition hand numbered 310/1550. Features gilt lettering to spine and gilt page block head, with page block face and foot roughly cut. Each volume contains a frontispiece, title pages printed in red and black ink, and biographical notes by Edmund Gosse. Vol.1 contains pencilled notation to FEP reverse, easily removed if desired. Boards all show signs of shelf and edgewear, with a few scores and light marks. Vol.1 has suffered the most wear to covers and Vol.10 has a 7cm split along the front spine side. There is some light foxing to page blocks and also sporadically throughout the internal pages. Portions of the page blocks remain uncut, suggesting they have never actually been read through. Text is bright and clear, bindings are sound. AD
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$988.00 + shipping
Description: 225 x 142 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 5/8"). 15 (of 24 volumes): with volumes 1-7, 9, 11-12, and 14-15 (of 20) of "The Works," both volumes of "Letters," and 1 volume (of 2) of "The Life" The Works edited by Edmund Gosse. BEAUTIFUL RED MOROCCO, HEAVILY GILT, with elaborate foliate borders framed by two sets of gilt rules, raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt, with either gilt lettering or gilt starburst motifs and foliate corner pieces, wide turn-ins with gilt rules, leafy cornerpieces, and floral side-pieces, FULL PURPLE MOROCCO DOUBLURES with a border of gilt rules and dots, purple watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Each volume of "The Works" with frontispiece and titled tissue guards, "The Life" and "The Letters" with frontispiece portraits and tissue guards, volume I of "The Life" with additional portrait. The Works entirely unopened, volume II of "The Letters" with facsimile letter. âLeather with a hint of soiling, a few joints with just very light rubbing, but a lovely group of very decorative volumes showing only trivial wear, and extremely clean and pleasing internally. The volumes in this set are beautifully bound, look wonderful on the shelf, and showcase much of Stevenson's impressive corpus, including two of his best-known works, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "Treasure Island." Despite his struggles with ill health, and a premature death from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 44, Stevenson (1850-94) left a remarkable body of work that remained popular for decades after his passing. No fewer than six collected editions of his complete works were published between 1894 and 1924, and he remains one of the most translated authors of all time. The present bindings, though unsigned, are sumptuously gilt, have luxurious doublures and endleaves, and make a very stately appearance. (The lost volumes went astray during shipping.). No. 1,513 of 1,550 copies of the Pentland Edition.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1003.00 + shipping
Description: 20 Volumes. Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Limited and numbered this is number 152 of only 1550. Physical description: 20 volumes: frontispieces, illustrations; 23 cm. Contents: v. 1. An inland voyage. Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes. A mountain town in France. Edinburgh: picturesque notes -- v. 2. The amateur emigrant, The old and new Pacific capitals. The Silverado squatters. "Virginibus puerisque". Other papers -- v. 3. Familiar studies of men and books. The body-snatcher -- v. 4. New Arabian nights. The story of a lie -- v. 5. Treasure island. Will o' the mill. The treasure of Franchard -- v. 6. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Thrawn Janet. The merry men. More new Arabian nights. The dynamiter -- v. 7. Prince Otto. The wrong box -- v. 8. The Black Arrow. Markheim. The misadventures of John Nicholson -- v. 9. Memoirs and portraits. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin F.R.S., L.L.D. -- v. 10. Kidapped. Catriona, part I -- v. 11. Catriona, part II. The Master of Ballantrae -- v. 12. The wrecker / written in collaboration with LLoyd Osbourne -- v. 13. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods. Ballads. Songs of travel. Additional poems. v. 14. Deacon Brodie. Beau Austin. Admiral Guinea. Macaire -- v. 15. Records of a family of engineers. Additional memories and portraits. Later essays. Lay morals. Prayers written for family use at Vailima -- v. 16. A footnote to history. Island nights' entertainments. Olalla. Heathercat -- v. 17. In the South Seas. Letters from Samoa -- v. 18. The ebb-tide. Weir of Hermiston. The Great North Road. The young chevalier -- v. 19. St. Ives, being the adventures of a French prisoner in England -- v. 20. Juvenilia, and other papers. Fables. The Davos Press. Subjects: Scottish literature 19th century. English literature Scottish authors 19th century. English Literature. 10 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1030.11 + shipping
Description: A scarce set of the collected works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Complete in twenty volumes, this edition was part of a limited printing of 1550 copies, of which this is number 176. Published by Casell and Company in association with several of Stevenson's previous publishers, including Chatto and Windus, Heinemann and Longmans Green, this collection of his works varies from his most popular (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, In The South Seas, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde etc) to more obscure, such as Notes and Essays Chiefly of The Road, Letters from Samoa and Familiar Studies of Men and Books. As such, the collection sees Stevenson's fiction and non-fiction, writing of his own opinions and experiences as much as creating these for his characters. The collection was published at a time before Stevenson's work would be disparaged in favour of Modernist Literature, which would make a departure from the escapism that prevailed in the popular work of the Nineteenth Century. This dismissal of Stevenson's work failed to take into account the author's literary and social criticism, as well as his humanist and anti-imperialist viewpoints (this latter aspect seen here particularly in The Ebb-Tide), which would perhaps have seen him viewed in more favour. The result was relatively far-reaching in that he would be deemed unworthy of mention in the definitive Norton Anthology of English Literature until 2006; a century after this collection was published. A bibliography and introduction is here provided by Edmund Gosse, a prominent literary critic of his time and a aquaintance and contemporary of the likes of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy. Gosse, among his other many achievements is largely credited in helping to popularise the work of Henrik Ibsen to English-speaking audiences. Each volume contains a bookplate to the pastedown, bearing the design of 'Newberry'. In cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally quite smart, there are some instances of wear to the extremities, as well as sunning to the backstrip and markings to boards. Internally, the pages are firmly bound and are bright and clean throughout, aside from the usual instances of foxing to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1079.59 + shipping
Description: 20 Volumes. Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Limited and numbered this is number 152 of only 1550. Physical description: 20 volumes: frontispieces, illustrations; 23 cm. Contents: v. 1. An inland voyage. Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes. A mountain town in France. Edinburgh: picturesque notes -- v. 2. The amateur emigrant, The old and new Pacific capitals. The Silverado squatters. "Virginibus puerisque". Other papers -- v. 3. Familiar studies of men and books. The body-snatcher -- v. 4. New Arabian nights. The story of a lie -- v. 5. Treasure island. Will o' the mill. The treasure of Franchard -- v. 6. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Thrawn Janet. The merry men. More new Arabian nights. The dynamiter -- v. 7. Prince Otto. The wrong box -- v. 8. The Black Arrow. Markheim. The misadventures of John Nicholson -- v. 9. Memoirs and portraits. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin F.R.S., L.L.D. -- v. 10. Kidapped. Catriona, part I -- v. 11. Catriona, part II. The Master of Ballantrae -- v. 12. The wrecker / written in collaboration with LLoyd Osbourne -- v. 13. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods. Ballads. Songs of travel. Additional poems. v. 14. Deacon Brodie. Beau Austin. Admiral Guinea. Macaire -- v. 15. Records of a family of engineers. Additional memories and portraits. Later essays. Lay morals. Prayers written for family use at Vailima -- v. 16. A footnote to history. Island nights' entertainments. Olalla. Heathercat -- v. 17. In the South Seas. Letters from Samoa -- v. 18. The ebb-tide. Weir of Hermiston. The Great North Road. The young chevalier -- v. 19. St. Ives, being the adventures of a French prisoner in England -- v. 20. Juvenilia, and other papers. Fables. The Davos Press. Subjects: Scottish literature 19th century. English literature Scottish authors 19th century. English Literature. 10 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$1357.35 + shipping
Description: With bibliographical notes by Edmund Gosse. In twenty volumes, totalling over 8,000 pages, each volume with frontispiece and lettered guard (including 2 full page and 1 double page map, and 1 double page frontispiece), text map, facsimile reproductions, occasional text figures; demy 8vo; black buckram, spines lettered in gilt, lightly flecked and soiled, some edges lightly worn, head of spine slightly frayed Volumes I, IX, X & XIX, small mark on spine of Volume XIX, fore-corners of a few volumes slightly bruised; uncut, t.e.g.; hinge paper starting slightly in Volumes I, XVII & more so in Volume XIX, free endpapers browned and lightly offset, some foxing, mainly to fore-edges, small closed tear to fore-edge of a couple of leaves, bookplate of John Harold Marston on upper pastedowns of first twelve volumes; Cassell & Company Limited, in association with Chatto & Windus, William Heinemann and Longmans Green and Company, London, 1906-1907. The Pentland edition, limited to 1,550 numbered copies. Beinecke 745; Prideaux & Livingston pp. 284-292.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: Full description: STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Pentland Edition]. With Bibliographical Notes by Edmund Gosse. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1906-1907. The Pentland Edition. One of 1550 numbered copies, this being number 554. Complete in twenty octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 217 x 140 mm). Bound by Riviere & Son in half dark green morocco over green cloth. Boards double ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Blue endpapers. All spines uniformly sunned to a golden brown. Top edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate in front pastedowns. Overall an about fine set. Beinecke. Prideaux. HBS 68898. $4,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.