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Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Description: 1st Ed. Hard cover blue cloth bds, Fair+, bumped to corner and rear leading edge in middle, spine darkened, some rubbing to extrem.s, front hinge cracked but holding, b/w frontis. and 11 further plates through text (all present), one loose, contents clean and tight, occas. age-marks, no names inscriptions etc., pp427 + adverts at rear.
Seller: Little Owl Books, Norwich, NORFO, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd. The Wrecker.. London: Cassell, 1892., 1892.
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sixteenth Thousand. Hard cover book in good condition. No dust jacket. Bumps to head and foot of spine with cloth split. Slightly rolled. Inscription crossed out on front paste-down. Foxing to front and rear endpapers. 8vo. 427pp.
Seller: Salopian Books, Shrewsbury, SAL, United Kingdom
STEVENSON, Robert Louis & OSBOURNE, Lloyd. THE WRECKER. Cassell. London. ., 1892.
Price: US$12.05 + shipping
Description: 16th thousand. VII, 428, (12 adv.) PP, plus 12 b/w plates illustrated by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf. Fp: 'That kind of an accident', said he. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers rubbed and worn around edges, spine sunned, signature previous owner at top of title page. Very good. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 20 x 13. The yarns of Loudon Dodd, started in Taio Hae, Marquesas Islands.
Seller: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Description: 427pp, ads Ads dated 2G 5.92. CORNER BUMP -- SLIGHT CANT TO BOOKBLOCK good, blue cloth (hardcover) small bump lower corner - SEEN NOTE
Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd. The Wrecker. Cassell, London, 1892.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 16th thousand. A tightly bound copy with some wear at the edges of the covers. Gift inscription. Frontispiece tissue guard is present.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE WRECKER.. CASSELL & CO. LONDON 1892, LONDON, 1892.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good tight condition hardbck slight lean light wear to spine end
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis & Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrecker. Cassell, London, 1892.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Tips a bit worn, some overall light soiling to boards, spine slant, and wear at ends of spine; internally clean, unmarked and binding strong. Published the same year as the first, the title page cites "Ninth Thousand". 427 pages plus 12 plates (including the tissue guarded frontispiece) and 12 pages of publisher's ads bound in at the rear. The final page of text (427) is dated "20. 792".
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada
STEVENSON (Robert Louis) & OSBOURNE (Lloyd). The Wrecker.. Cassell., London, 1892.
Price: US$25.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: with vi + 427pp and book adverts. Illustrated by William Hole and Metcalf. Cloth slightly marked o/w good condition.
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Osbourne, LLoyd:. The Wrecker. London Cassell & Company Limited, 1892.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book , First edition in blue buckram with gilt top edge and titles. 427 pages with 12 page publisher's catalogue at rear. Illustrated by William Hole and W.L. Metcalf. All plates present. A Very Good copy. Slight darkening to Spine and top edge. light rubbing and very slight fraying to same. Previous owners armourial book plate to front paste down- Arthur Godley. Light foxing to prelim pages but otherwise pages clean. At the rear of the text is fixed a early book shop receipt and the price of 21/- . Rear hinge is stretched showning webbing. Pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition, first impression of this popular novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. First edition, first impression of The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne in the original publisher's cloth binding.An action-adventure novel, illustrated with twelve monochrome plates by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf. Collated, complete.Includes twelve pages of advertisements to the rear.The first impression of this work with no further impressions stated.Prior owner's book plate to the first pastedown and prior owner's ink inscription from 1892 to the first free endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine. There is some slight loss to the head and tail of the spine. Prior owner's book plate to the first pastedown and prior owner's ink inscription from 1892 to the first free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
STEVENSON, Robert Louis and OSBOURNE, Lloyd.. The Wrecker.. London, Cassell & Co 1892., 1892.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Edges and prelims spotted, bookplate on front paste-down, old catalogue stamp on rear paste-down, inner hinges professionally strengthened with archival tissue, small tears to head and tail of spine repaired, o/w very good in an added clear archival jacket for this copy. Illustrated by William Hole and W.L. Metcalf.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Price: US$48.50 + shipping
Description: 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). vii, 427pp +ads. + 12 pp (Advertisements & Cassell's catalogue). Worn condition. Cover rubbed. Wear to spine ends. Inner hinge cracking, but content in overall good condition
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$49.59 + shipping
Description: Place Printed: London, Paris & Melbourne 2 Blank pages / 4 NNP / 427 Pages / 12(partly unopened) NNP / 2 After blanks / 11 Engraved Plates There are 3 extra pictures availabe on request! Height (cm): 20 Width (cm): 14 Thickness (cm): 3 Weight (kg): 0,606
Seller: Antiquariaat Meuzelaar, Heusden, NB, Netherlands
Price: US$52.90 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Some wear and tear to the spine. Hinges starting. Text remains clear and without blemish. Frontispiece accompanied by a guard sheet. Physical description: vi, 425 pages, 12 leaves of plates: illustrations; 20 cm. Subjects: English literature 19th century. Novels. 19th Century. Illustrations.Fiction in English 1837-1900 Texts. Genre: Illustrated. Novel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne. THE WRECKER. Cassell, London, 1892.
Price: US$56.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue binding with gilt titles. 427 pages. 12 full page black and white illustrations. 12 pages publishers list at back. Internally spotless. Covers have minor marks.A nice tight, straight 1st edition. Scans available.
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrecker. Cassell & Company Limited, London, 1892.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne's collaborative novel. With twelve black and white plates. Complete with illustrated frontispiece and original tissue guard with 11 other illustrated plates. Condition: In dark blue cloth binding with gilt titles to spine. Some rubbing at top and bottom of spine with 2mm strip of cloth missing at top. Some foxing to end papers, but clean and bright inside and tightly bound. Externally, a trifle rubbed with some light wear to extremities. Ink stamp of previous owner on fep.
Seller: Mister Pernickety, Ludlow, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Wrecker. Cassell & Company Ltd,, London, 1892.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: vi - 427 pp frontis and 11 full page plates. 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
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A second edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's ocean adventure written in collaboration with Lloyd Osbourne, illustrated by W. L. Metcalf and William Hole. An exciting adventure mystery comprising loosely linked episodes.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was an important Scottish novelist, best known for these works. His works were extremely widely-read and acclaimed during his lifetime, and he is one of the most widely translated authors in the world. Written by Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.Illustrated by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf.The second edition of this popular work, released the same year as the first edition.A fantastic tale of adventure by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with a little bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Pencil gift inscription to the half title page. Internally, front hinge is strained with binding exposed, otherwise firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
STEVENSON, Robert Louis and OSBOURNE, Lloyd.. The Wrecker.. Cassell & Company, London, 1892.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: vii, 427, 12 (ads) pp. Illustrated by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf. 8vo, original blue cloth. First edition. Armorial bookplate on pastedown; endsheets lightly foxed; slightly shelf-slanted with light use to the cloth at extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$67.60 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Some wear and tear to the spine. Hinges starting. Text remains clear and without blemish. Frontispiece accompanied by a guard sheet. Physical description: vi, 425 pages, 12 leaves of plates: illustrations; 20 cm. Subjects: English literature 19th century. Novels. 19th Century. Illustrations.Fiction in English 1837-1900 Texts. Genre: Illustrated. Novel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 427, [1], [12] ads; 12 plates; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine; corners rubbed, spine extremities a little worn and with one small crack starting at the bottom; all else very good. Beinecke 558; Prideaux 34.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: vii, 427, 12 pp. Publisher's original cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor marks & rubbing to boards. Slight spotting. Ownership signature of Herman Van der Vinck aka British composer Herman Finck. Illustrations by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf. 12-page publisher's adverts at rear. Binding firm. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Description: [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 427 [12]. Publisher's catalogue dated May 1892. With 12 half-tone illustrated plates by Hole and Metcalf, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Repair to split lower hinge. Spotting and toning to edges and endpapers. Slightly cocked. Quite roughly opened in places. Moderate wear to cloth; spine quite heavily toned. Very good. Another stirring tale of shipwreck, salvage and dark doings from Mr.Stevenson; the second mystery written in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osborne, in this instance the investigator being the narrator himself. Inspired by the schooner Equator (1888-1953), this strange South Seas tale concerns the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [8], 427, [1] pp., plus 12 pp. publisher's catalogue dated 2G. 5-92. Frontisp., 11 plates. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine (very minor darkening to spine, slight shelfwear, very slight rubbing), a VG bright copy from the libraries of H.[enry] Nazeby Harrington, w/ bookplate designed by Arthur Cox of a man seated in an armchair reading in a library, bookshelves in the background, and armorial bookplate of William Marchbank (1828-1891) w/ motto "Et custos et pugnax" on rear pastedown. First edition, 1st printing, of this adventure mystery set against the backdrop of Parisian student life, shady business dealings in California, and piracy, inspired by Stevenson And his bride's voyages on the Schooner Equator to the Gilbert Islands and onto Samoa. Prideaux, 34, pp. 76-77.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrecker. Cassell & Company, Limited, London, 1892.
Price: US$102.65 + shipping
Description: A first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne's collaborative novel. With twelve black and white plates. Complete with illustrated frontispiece and original tissueguard. In a full cloth binding with gilt detailed spine. Externally, a trifle rubbed with some light wear to extremities. Spine is cocked. Hinges are strained. Internally, generally firmly bound with binding just a little tender in places. Spotting to endpapers and tissueguard, as expected, but otherwise a bright and clean copy. Neat ink stamp of previous owner to upper margin of half title. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Osbourne, Lloyd. The Wrecker. Cassell, 1892.
Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by William Hole and W.L. Metcalf. Blue cloth. Some offsetting and spotting to endpapers, head and foot of spine slightly rubbed. Nice copy.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrecker. Cassell & Co., Ltd., London, 1892.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illus. by William Hole and W.L. Metcalf. Blue cloth, sturdy heavier book, gilt lettering very fine on spine, frontispiece illustration, slight wear to spine edges and tips, 427 pages + 12 pages of ads, browned inside covers. Good +.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. And Osbourne, Lloyd. The Wrecker. Cassell and Co., London, 1892.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first British edition of this collaboration between Stevenson and Osbourne, published in 1892 by Cassell and Company. Illustrated by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf. An uncommonly nice copy, near fine with just a bit of rubbing to the spine ends and just a shade of toning to the spine. Blue cloth binding bright and unrubbed.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Osbourne, Lloyd. THE WRECKER. London:Cassell and Company, Limited, 1892.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London:Cassell and Company, Limited. 1892. vii +427pp+ 12pp ads dated 5.92. 1st edition. Illustrated by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf.Hardcover. In very good condition. The front board has some soiling on the bottom inch of the front cover; there is some wear to the spine ends; and the binding is slightly cocked. The first free end-page has some penciled bookseller notes and the end-papers are slightly aged, but otherwise the pages are clean and bright.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne.. The Wrecker.. London: Cassell & Company, 1892., 1892.
Price: US$150.31 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., orig. blue cloth, 427, 12pp.ads dated "May 1892." Inner hinges cracked, lower corners bumped o/w a very nice copy. Beinecke 558.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne. THE WRECKER. Cassell & Co.: London, 1892.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Description: Illus. with 12 full page plates by William Hole and W.L. Metcalf, 7.5 x 5", recently bound in 3/4 blue leather; cloth, teg, 427pp + 12pp publisher's catalogue, covers very nice (but plain), contents toned with some scattered finger soiling. FIRST EDITION. Decorative binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis; Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrecker. Cassell & Company Limited, London, 1892.
Price: US$192.50 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (20cm). In original blue publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; 12pp of publisher's ads at rear dated May 1892; [i-v] vi [vii-viii], 427, [1], [12]pp; 12 halftone illustrations by William Hole andn W. L. Metcalf. A stable copy, with a chip and quarter-inch tears to cloth at head and tail, and rubbing to edges of boards, rear hinge cracked through, else clean: Good or better. One of Stevenson's later novels and one of two written with his stepson, an adventure and detective story set in the South Seas. PRIDEAUX 34.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. The Wrecker. Cassell and Company, London, 1892.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis & OSBOURNE, Lloyd. The Wrecker. Cassell, London, 1892.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illus. by William Hole & W.L. Metcalf. 8vo, blue cloth. London: Cassell, 1892. First Edition. Fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE WRECKER (Superb copy of the First Edition). Cassell, 1892.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stevenson, Robert Louis & Osbourne, Lloyd. THE WRECKER. London: Cassell & Co., 1892. Illustrated by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf with twelve plates. 12pp catalogue dated May 1892. First Edition, an exceedingly FINE example in original publisher's bright blue cloth, gilt. Some foxing to the endpapers. An ocean adventure novel, with some claim to being a detective story, written with Stevenson's stepson. This is a book, the color of which seems to rub just by looking at it, so we're pleased to note it's the nicest copy we've handled. In a vintage quarter leather open end box.
Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Wrecker. Cassell & Company, London, 1892.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson. First edition in original dark blue cloth with gold print on the spine. Publisher: Cassell & Company, London, 1892. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. 427 pages plus 12 pages of ads in back. Wonderful copy. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #14-142. Price: $400. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Wrecker. Cassell and Company, London, 1892.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. First edition. 12 pages of ads. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$6352.16 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An exceptionally beautiful thirty volume set of the works of Scottish novelist and writer Robert Louis Stevenson, in sumptuous half crushed morocco bindings. Very rare in an vibrant blue morocco.Present in this extraordinary set are: The 1892 third thousand of "Footnotes to History", published in the same year as the first edition. With a map frontispiece. The 1894 fourteenth thousand of "The Ebb-Tide", by Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, published in the same year as the first edition. The thirty-first thousandth of "The Black Arrow", published in 1897. Illustrated with eight plates by Paget. Collated, complete. The 1896 second edition of "Weir of Hermiston". An 1897 "New Edition" of "The Suicide Club and Rajah"s Diamonds". With eight plates by W.J. Hennessy. Collated, complete. The eleventh thousand of "Island Nights" Entertainments", 1898. Illustrated with twenty-six plates, including a colour map. Collated, complete. An 1899 edition of "The Dynamiter". The 1899 seventh edition of "The Merry Men". An 1899 edition of "The Wrong Box", with a frontispiece and vignette illustration to the title page. The 1899 thirty-first thousand of "The Wrecker", co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. Illustrated by William Hole and W.L. Metcalf, with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated, complete. An 1899 edition of "Treasure Island", illustrated by Wal Paget. With a frontispiece and forty-five plates and vignette illustrations. Collated, complete. The 1899 fourteenth edition of "Familiar Studies of Men and Books". An 1899 edition of "St. Ives". The 1899 fourth edition of "Songs of Travel". A 1900 edition of "Prince Otto". "Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes", the 1900 seventh edition. The 1900 twenty-third edition of "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. A 1900 edition of "An Inland Voyage", illustrated with a frontispiece. The 1900 ninth edition of "Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays". A 1900 edition of "Catriona", illustrated with sixteen plates from Hole. The 1900 ninth edition of "Memories & Portraits". "In the South Seas", published in 1900. The 1900 fifth edition of "Ballads". "Travels with a Donkey, a 1900 edition, illustrated with a frontispiece. The 1901 third edition of "Vailma Letters", which presents correspondences from Stevenson to Sidney Colvin between 1890 and 1894. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated, complete. The 1900 twenty-second edition of "New Arabian Nights". The 1900 eleventh edition of "Underwoods". A 1901 edition of "Kidnapped", with sixteen plates by Hole, and a folding colour map. Collated, complete. A 1901 edition of "The Silverado Squatters", with a frontispiece. "The Masters of Ballantrae", published in 1901 and with ten plates by Hole.Retaining the original half-titles.With the illustrated bookplate of American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to each front pastedown. Carnegie, born in Stevenson's native Scotland, emigrated to America as a child, and was instrumental in the expansion of the American steel industry, becoming one of the richest Americans in history, and a leading philanthropist in the United States, Great Britain, and the British Empire. During the last eighteen years of his life, he gave away ninety percent of his fortune to charitable causes.An exceptionally beautiful set. In half crushed morocco bindings, with cloth covered boards. Externally, wonderful. Light rubbing to front board head of 'Treasure Island', with minor rubbing to spine tail of 'Vailma Letters', and light mark to front board of 'Familiar Studies'. Instances of light rubbing to back strip heads and tails. Back strips a touch age toned. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom