Ballantyne, Coral Island, 1858

From the Library of Christian Heuer

BALLANTYNE, R.M.

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean. London: T. Nelson And Sons, 1858

8vo (175 x 110mm.), FIRST EDITION, coloured frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 6 plates after the author, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, early inscription on front endpaper, some staining to title page and other preliminaries, text spotted, upper hinge cracked and starting, cloth slightly worn

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR OF ALL SCOTTISH NOVELS.

This copy is in the first issue binding with the title and pictorial design blocked in gilt within the large embossed central circle on the upper cover.

"It is seldom that one meets a man who has not, in his youth, read at least one of Ballantyne's adventure tales. To most of the Fathers and Grandfathers of today, there must still cling around the name of this nineteenth-century author the golden fragrance of the coral islands of their youth" (Eric Quayle, Ballantyne the Brave, 1967).

LITERATURE:

Quayle 12a 

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby's, 21 November 1996, lot 14

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