Sold for $8,400.Įloquent Autograph Letter Signed by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bound Within ”An Inland Voyage” First Edition - ”I should be strangely made if I were indifferent to the praise of my fellow writers”. A lovely first printing of ”Treasure Island” with accompanying signed check. 8” x 3.25” check is in very good condition with toning and a line drawn through Stevenson’s signature. Check is dated 8 August 1887 for ”ten pounds sterling”. Lloyd Osbourne, Stevenson’s stepson with whom he co-authored three books. Accompanying the book is a signed check from Stevenson to S. Housed in a custom one-quarter leather clamshell box over marbled boards. In publisher’s full green cloth with gilt spine titles, in near fine condition with only the slightest overall wear, expert repair to hinges and foxing to front free endpaper and half-title page. Octavo measures 5.25” x 7.75” with four pages of ads at rear dated ”5R-1083” and incorrectly listing ”Treasure Island” as having 304 pages, as called for in the first printing. 178 ”worse” rather than ”worst” in line 3 on page 197 frontispiece map in four colors. 127 lacking the period following ”opportunity” in line 20 of p. 63 the ”7” is bolder and slightly raised in the pagination on p. 40 the ”a” is not present in line 6 on p. 2 and 7 ”rain” for ”vain” in the last line of p.
With all first printing points present: ”dead man’s chest” not capitalized on pp. London, Paris & New York: Cassel & Co, Ltd., 1883. Robert Louis Stevenson’s first edition, first printing of his classic ”Treasure Island”. Sanders ( ) has sold:įirst Edition, First Printing of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ”Treasure Island” in Near Fine Condition - With Check Signed by Stevenson to His Stepson & Co-Author S. Here are some recent items that our auction house, Nate D.
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