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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. Cassell and Company Ltd, London, 1899.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated edition - illustrator unattributed in the book. Rather rubbed, particularly to spine and front illus., lightly bumped. Hinges have been cracked and then tape repaired. Small ink owner name to front pastedown, a couple of marks to half title, heavy loss to frontis tissue guard, else pp generally clean and bright. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island. Cassell & Co., London, 1899.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Eighty-seventh thousand. An overall good copy with bright and clean pages. Boards are very good, with some rubbing, particularly to spine, and bumped corners. Illustrated endpapers. Front hinge feels slightly loose. Small dated inscription to top right corner of title page. Slight foxing to front and rear few pages, and a few cases of very light foxing to text, but mostly bright and clean pages. Some light foxing to frontispiece tissue guard, but frontispiece itself in excellent condition, with no foxing. Page 162 and plate opposite has been rebound with cellotape. Some spine splitting. Features some superb black and white illustrated plates. 292pp + ads. (13.5x18.5cm). Please see photos for condition, and contact us for any more information.
Seller: Books & Bobs, Deeside, FLINT, United Kingdom
Price: US$133.84 + shipping
Description: Sixtieth Thousand; Cr. 8vo; pp. viii, 319, [8], [14] advertisements; original patterned endpapers, coloured folding map as frontispiece, sixteen illustrations by W. B. Hole, original publishers illustrated green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, bookplate, first and last few pages with some mild foxing otherwise a good copy. Considered one of the author's best books and often seen as a companion to TREASURE ISLAND as well as to CATRIONA which was published in 1893.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: Illustrated edition hard back binding in publisher's original aqua marine cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, over-printed illustration to the front cover, decorative end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains red and black copy of the author's original map, additional tissue-guarded engraved title page, (viii), 292 printed pages of text with 24 full-page single-sided illustrations by a number of different unidentified artists from the first Cassell illustrated edition of 1885, + publisher's advertisements dated December 1899. Ink message to the half-title page and in Very Good clean condition. We hold in stock over 20 different editions of Treasure Island. Member of the P.B.F.A. STEVENSON, Robert Louis
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good copy of an early illustrated edition ["Eighty-Seventh Thousand"]. Blue-green cloth binding, illustrated on the front board in black, blue and white of Jim in the rigging pointing two pistols at his pursuer. Titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; map of the island in black, red, brown and blue; followed by an illustrated half-title; viii, 202 pages. Large award label on the front paste-down awarding the Form Prize during Summer Term 1900. There are two publisher catalogs in the rear. The first (ten pages) features reproductions of the author's signatures; followed by a 16-page version in text-only. Slight lean; rubbing to the margins; minor spotting within. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.