Voyage to Windward: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. by Furnas, J. C - 1951

William Sloane Associates, 1951. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York, NY: William Sloane Associates, 1951 William Sloane Associates, New York. 1951. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, but does have F/O address label on the FFFP; occasional pencil checks and braces in rear of book; on page with highlights in the front. Book Condition: bumped head and tail, light wear t upper tips; heavy shelfwear to blue portion of board bottoms. No DJ. Blue boards with cream cloth overlay on the spine with gilt lettering in blue and gilt shadow box on the spine. Sound internal hinges. 566 pp 8vo. Stevenson was one of the most popular and highly praised British writers during the last part of the nineteenth century. This is one of the best biographies of the great Scottish author and traveler. The author researched for 15 years to make this book going through old letters, diaries, and papers to try and define who was the real RLS and what was he like. Fighting tuberculosis most of his life he finally settled in Samoa where he produces some of his most outstanding… Read More

William Sloane Associates, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. No Edition Remarks. 566 pages. No dust jacket. Blue and beige cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light ink marking to front pastedown. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends with small splits. Light scuffing to boards. Small brown mark to rear board.

New York: William Sloane Associates, (1951). Octavo, khaki cloth & navy blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x, 566 pp.Near Fine in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The frail and indomitable figure of Robert Louis Stevenson rises from these pages, vivid and intensely alive. Mr. Furnas has explored every aspect of the life and mind and career of one of the most complex and entertaining figures in the world of writing -- hotheaded, sensitive, unconventional, with a high standard of literary excellence and a sparkling wit. Novelist and South Seas politician, essayist, artist and children’s poet, Stevenson lived a difficult and fantastic existence in Europe, America -- and finally the South Seas -- with a zest and personal courage that are heartwarming to read about. Mr. Furnas does full justice to this colorful character: here is all there is to know about Stevenson finally woven together with many strands from previously… Read More

New York: William Sloane Associates, c1951. Hardcover. Good condition tattered d.j./fair. 566p., illus.

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New York: William Sloane Associates Publishers [1951], 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. [4],v-x, [2], 3-566 pp. Quarter beige cloth over blue cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. Toning to the gutters and to the textblock, name and date written on free front endpaper; jacket is lightly edge-worn and age-toned.

London: Faber & Faber, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing. Corners bumped, with light speckling to upper corner of rear board and endpapers. Dust jacket chipped in a few places, general edge-wear and a couple short closed tears. B/w illustrations.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1951. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8.5" by 6". None. An uncommon US first edition of this biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. Written by Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, the book traces Stevenson's early years in Scotland through to his travels in the South Seas and America. Robert Louis Stevenson was a popular writer, who is best known for 'Treasure Island' and 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. In cloth binding with gilt detailing and original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally very smart. Some minor shelfwear to extremities and backstrip. The dustwrapper has some wear to the joints and chipping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout. Very Good

Faber and Faber Limited, 1952. Hardback. Good/Good. First UK edition hardback, 1952, with unclipped jacket. In overall good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket rubbed and chipped to edges (now protected); boards generally clean and crisp but with chip to spine tail. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to endpapers but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.