Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: Good, heavily soiled, spine cocked. Cloth Corners bumped and worn to boards. Pages browned. Prev owner's name on front fly.
Seller: Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Much shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, no jacket.The first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.
Seller: The Book Shed, Benson, VT, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne. WRONG BOX. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1889.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1889. . Hardcover. 12mo., 244 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, writing on ffe, page toning .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light brown cloth, pinkish-tan pastedown title label lettered in brown on upper front panel, lettered in brown on upper spine panel. vii,244 pp. + [4] pp. publisher's catalog at rear. 1st U.S., with matching 1889 dates. Moderately soiled cloth, a few surface abrasions, a lew letters on title label rubbed away. Binding lean, exposed bottom corners. One interior gathering slightly projecting, though firmly bound. No longer the most elegant copy, but scarce and essentially intact. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis; Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 19 x 13 cm. 12mo. 244pp vii [2] [4 ads]. Bound in tan cloth, 2 paste down title labels (title and reproduction of newspaper ad). . Chipping to head and tail of spine. First U.S. edition with 1889 on title and copyright page. Gerstley 42A.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. WRONG BOX. , 1889.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: STEVENSON, Robert Louis, and OSBOURNE, Lloyd. THE WRONG BOX. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First American edition. Pink cloth with 2 labels (title, and reproduction of the newspaper ad. that figures in the story). Somewhat soiled with spotting on the spine. (Gerstley 42A).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert L.. The Wrong Box. Scribner, New York, 1889.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Torn out ad on front panel. Four pages of ads at rear. General wear to cover, but tightly bound in brown boards with gold stamping. Previous owner' s neat bookplate to ffep. 244 pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne (First Edition) Moderate wear and soiling to covers. No jacket present. First edition, 1889 on the title page, and no later dates mentioned. Brown cloth with a white and blue pastedown. Gilt lettering to spine. First collaboration between Stevenson and his stepson, Osbourne.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis & Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Modest corner bumping, mild dustiness, else a clean copy of the First American Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition. Pale brown cloth gilt with affixed printed paper labels as issued. Owner's name, front fly lacking, nicks and overall wear at the spine ends, a good only copy. The first of three collaborations by Stevenson and Osbourne, a black comedy about two brothers who vie to be the sole heir to a fortune. Basis for the great British comedy with John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, and many others.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Binding cocked with moderate wear and a bit of loss at the corners and spine ends, spine gilt dulled and cloth darkened near the spine base, cover lacking the lower printed paper label, just about very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). The Wrong Box. New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1889, 1889.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Description: [Comic Novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[II]; VII; [I], blank; 244; [II] blank; [IV], publisher's advertisements; [II], blank. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, title lettered in blue mounted on paper stamp. Toning to edges of textblock, spotting on pages throughout, somewhat shaken, rolling to top and bottom of spine, indenting to front board where part of the original cover design has been torn away. Very good. The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne is a dark comic novel.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii+244+[4 ae] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's brownish olive green with gilt lettering on the spine and a light yellow label on the cover with lettering in black. The ad, torn from a newspaper placed on the cover. First American edition. The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. The others were The Wrecker (1892) and The Ebb-Tide (1894). Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 (then called The Finsbury Tontine), Stevenson revised it in 1888 (then called A Game of Bluff) and again in 1889 when it was finally called The Wrong Box. A film adaptation, also titled The Wrong Box, was released in 1966, and a musical in 2002. Condition: Spine ends rubbed and corners rubbed, corners bumped, some uneven sunning to covers, over opened else about very good.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis and OSBOURNE, Lloyd. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, Octavo, tan cloth over boards with torn paper label and gilding on spine. A comedic novel about two brothers who are the last surviving members of a tontine, later adapted into a movie and a musical. Very good, spine ends bumped.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, Octavo, original pink cloth over boards, stamped in white and gilt with paper decoration. Comedic novel about two borthers fighting over an inheritance. Very good, spine ends slightly bumped.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis & Osbourne, Lloyd. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: 244p. Good condition, front cover faded
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. 1899 1st Edition, 1st Printing; Charles Scribner's Sons; New York. NOTE: the torn piece of newspaper at the bottom of the front cover is actually part of the design of the cover. THE WRONG BOX A black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member stands to receive a fortune. It is a farcical, eccentric and brilliantly written piece of work. Condition: Light soiling to covers and spine. Tight binding. No loose pages. Foxing to front and rear pastedowns and end papers.no foxing found on text pages. Crack at hinge at front of book between two end papers. The pages are clean with the exception of a light stain that appears at the bottom-right corner of page 109 to the end of the book. Tear at the outer edge of pages 244 (last page of the novel) and the end paper that follows it. NOTE: the torn piece of newspaper at the bottom of the front cover is actually part of the design of the cover, and not a condition issue - there is a small scratch at the lower-left corner.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Wrong Box.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. Small octavo. 244, [2], [4, undated publisher's ads] pp. Publisher's olive cloth with gilt spine lettering, front over with printed yellow paper label. Most of "newspaper ad" on front cover studiously scrapped away and book is slighyly cocked. Else, a very good copy.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Osbourne, Lloyd. Wrong Box. Scribner's, N.Y., 1889.
Price: US$65.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.S. Edition. VG. Hardcover, green cloth with paper paste-down to front cover, no DJ, 244 pp, minimal edgewear with previous owners name and bookplate which has been covered over , otherwise a clean and tight copy.
Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd. THE WRONG BOX. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Faded spot to front boards and with otherwise light rubbing to extremities; Nice early edition. Wikipedia says: "co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. A comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966). A tontine is a group life-insurance policy in which all the benefits go to the last survivor. Both in the novel and in real life, it is an incentive to murder, and no longer legal in most countries" ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 244 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis & Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. This collaboration became the basis for an extremely funny film. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition. Blue-green cloth binding with paper labels on the front cover; gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 244 pages, with four pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. Rubbed at the margins; spine darkened but gilt is still bright. Mildly cocked; notation and signature on the endpapers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis and OSBOURNE, Lloyd. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner?s Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, Octavo, original brown publishers cloth over boards, paper labels affixed as issued, gilt stamped lettering on spine. A dark comedy concerning two brothers who are the only surviving members of a tontine, the first novel Stevenson and Osbourne published together. Near fine, very light shelf wear, loss to one of paper labels on cover.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 244 pp., 4 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. CBEL III., p. 521 Bound in light rown cloth, paper labels on front cover. Spine ends and corners bumped, else very good. Signed J.P. Adams Sandwich, Ills 244 pp., 4 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 244 pp., 4 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. CBEL III., p. 521 Olive green cloth, paper labels on front cover. Backstrip faded, spine ends and corners bumped 244 pp., 4 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Osbourne, Lloyd. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. 4 pages of advertisements at end. Publisher's gilt stamped brown cloth with paper title label to front cover at top, and a smaller uneven printed label (that you should not peel off!) at bottom. Light wear only to this mystery-comedy.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne.. The Wrong Box.. NY. Scribner's Sons. 1889., 1889.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With 4 pp. ads in rear. VG+ in brown cloth with bright, clean paper labels on front boards and bright gilt lettering on spine. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons,, New York:, 1889.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: First printing Very good+ in the publisher's original light brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and with a paper label of brown text surrounded by a border on the front board and with a small ad torn from the classified section of a news paper added as a second label to the lower quarter of the front board. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2" by 5" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn and rubbed and the cloth on the same tanned. There is a prior owner's name in pencil and a second prior owner's stamp on the first free end page. 244 pages of text followed by four pages of ads by the publisher. A mystery-comedy co-authored with Stevenson's step-son. (Widener, 111; Wright, 5199)
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Pale brown cloth gilt with affixed printed paper labels as issued. Overall soiling on the boards, small wrinkle at the crown, very good copy. The first of three collaborations by Stevenson and Osbourne, a black comedy about two brothers who vie to be the sole heir to a fortune. Basis for the great British comedy with John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, and many others.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. WRONG BOX. , 1889.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: STEVENSON, Robert Louis, and OSBOURNE, Lloyd. THE WRONG BOX. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First American edition. Olive green cloth, 2 paper labels. Extremes slightly worn. A very good copy. (Gerstley 42A).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 244, [ 4 pp. ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. CBEL III., p. 521; McKay 500; Hagen p. 357; Beinecke 500 Olive brown cloth, paper label in yellow and torn ad on front cover. Fine 244, [ 4 pp. ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first US edition of this humour novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. First US edition of The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne in the original publisher's cloth binding.A black comedy novel from the late nineteenth century, first published in London.Co-authored by Stevenson, well renowned Scottish author best known for 'Treasure Island', and his stepson and American author Osbourne.Prior owner's book plate to the front pastedown and prior owner's ink inscription 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 and to the extremities. There is some wear to the cloth in these areas. Prior owner's book plate to the front pastedown and prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some light age toning. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$178.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition, 244 pp., 4 pp undated ads, a rule under the word "Contents" on the Content page. Publisher's original brownish olive green with gilt lettering on the spine and a light yellow label on the cover with lettering in black. The ad, torn from a newspaper placed on the cover. A comical mystery. Very nice.
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo, publishers original olive green cloth, the upper cover with yellow paper label lettered in black, the spine gilt lettered. 244 pp, [4 ads]. A very fresh and attractive copy, the cloth with very minor mellowing. FIRST EDITION AND A VERY HANDSOME COPY of this black comedy co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. The story is about the last two remaining survivors of a tontine, Joseph and Morris Finsbury who happen to be brothers. The last one of them to die will receive a fortune. The book is the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 under the working-title "The Finsbury Tontine." Stevenson revised it in 1888 and again in 1889 when it was finally given its finished name, THE WRONG BOX. The edition appears in a number of binding variants (no priority--as to the colour of the cloth and lettering label). As a marketing gimmick Scribners affixed a printed scrap of newspaper, like one appearing in the novel, to the upper cover. The "scrap" was so convincing however that it was often taken as a flaw and on most copies had been scraped off, perhaps often before even leaving the original book shop. That is the case with this copy and there is bit of remaining evidence on the upper cover where the scrap had once been tipped on.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$207.37 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. 8vo., orig. reddish brown cloth, with printed paper label, 244, (4)pp.ads. Bookplate, newspaper clippings tipped on rear pastedown o/w an about fine copy. Beinecke 500.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
STEVENSON, Robert Louis; Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (19cm). In original pinkish tan publisher's cloth with two paper onlays on front, one in imitation of a newspaper clipping, titled in gold on spine; plain endpapers; 4 pp of publisher's ads at rear; [2], [i-v] vi-vii [viii], 244, [6]pp. A tight, clean, straight copy, gently rubbed at head, tail, and corners, topstain slightly faded, else Near Fine. One of three novels Stevenson wrote with his stepson, a black comedy about the last two survivors of a tontine, in an innovative publisher's binding.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition. In the rarest gray cloth variant of the cover, stamped in black on paper label on upper front cove with gilt lettering on spine, also has the original torn newspaper clipping on lower front cover. 4 pages of advertisements at end. Ghost of prior owner signature on ffep. The edition appears in a number of binding variants (no priority as to the color of the cloth and lettering label). As a marketing gimmick Scribners affixed a printed scrap of newspaper, like one appearing in the novel, to the front cover, which is still affixed here. In archival cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
robert louis stevenson and lloyd osbourne. the wrong box. charles scribner's sons, new york, 1889.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1889, 1889, brown with paper label on upper front cover, also has the original torn newspaper clipping on bottom of front cover.
Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. 8vo. 4 pages of advertisements at end. Original gilt stamped brown cloth with paper label on the upper cover. Very good. Small bookplate of Louis Wright Simpson on the front pastedown. McKay 500. Hagen p. 357. Beinecke 500.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition of this work about which precedence is uncertain between this and the British printing. This was the first collaboration between Stevenson and his stepson. Basis for Bryan Forbes 1966 film starring Michael Caine, John Mills, Ralph Richardson and Peter Sellers. A very near fine copy housed in a matching custom clamshell box.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.