Stevenson, Treasure Island, 1883

From the Library of Christian Heuer

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

Treasure Island. Cassell & Company, 1883

8vo, FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE (deadman's chest without capitals; worse for worst; the period is dropped from line 20 of p.178; advertisement's dated 5R-1283), half-title, chart frontispiece printed in four colours, original sage-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, 8pp. of publisher's catalogue (final leaves uncut), black-coated endpapers, collector's green cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, worn, hinges starting with some splitting at endpapers, some spotting, boards soiled, rubbed

“The finest tale of maritime adventure that has been told since Defoe produced his great romance” (Prideaux)

LITERATURE:

Prideaux 11

PROVENANCE:

H. Bradley Martin (sale bookmark loosely inserted, his sale, Sotheby's, New York 1989-1990, Lot 2478); Mildred Greenhill (her bookplate)

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