Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

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Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island, 1883, first edition, publisher's red cloth

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Robert Louis Stevenson


Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company, 1883


FIRST EDITION, 8vo (191 x 123 mm), half-title, map frontispiece, 8pp. advertisements at end, publisher's brown cloth gilt, housed in a modern brown morocco case, hinges weak, binding worn and rubbed


This copy has the complete pagination for page 83, with the following issue points of the first issue: lacking number 7 on page 127; dead man's chest without capitals; "a" missing from line 6 page 63; worse for worst line 3 page 197. The advertisements in this issue are dated 5R-1083.


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Sale, Sotheby's, 17 February 1993, lot 283

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