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The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Folio Society, London, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover (illustrated Cloth). Very Good Condition/Slipcased. Illustrator: Michael Foreman. Notes and Scots glossary. Navy blue coloured end pages. Colour illustrated frontispiece and the illustrations within the text have all been created by Michael Foreman. Illustrated navy blue coloured cloth covered boards with silver coloured titles and illustration to the back strip. Blue coloured slip case. This book draws together eight short stories taken from The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables & Island Nights' Entertainments & Uncollected Stories, three volumes of short stories published during Robert Louis Stevenson's life. A hint of rubbing to the book corners. Minor rubbing and marks to the slip case. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 384 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator:… Read More

The Folio Society, 2007. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Slipcase has small dent one edge, small tear on another edge. Black decorated cloth boards have a small dent top edge front, all else clean and nice. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011

The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. 2007. This Edition. 384 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Decorative black cloth with blue slipcase. Colour illustrated plates. Ex Libris plate to front free endpaper. Pages and plates are bright and clear with no visible markings; slight foxing to text block edges. Binding remains firm throughout. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has very subtle sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Slipcase is lightly scuffed, stained and sunned.

London: Folio Society. Fine. 2007. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Stiff unmarked book, about new, in blue slipcase. ; 384 pages .

London: The Folio Society. New. 2007. Hardcover in slipcase. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; 2007 The Folio Society. Slipcased hardcover. Still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Bound in full black cloth, cover blocked with a pictorial design in silver and blue from art by Michael Foreman. Illustrated with color plates from Foreman's art. Short tear to publisher's shrink-wrap. Essentially new and Fine in all respects. .

The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. New. 9x7x1. NEW! 2007 Hardcover Edition.

London: The Folio Society, 2007. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 23.5 x 18 cm. Octavo. 384pp. Black illustrated cloth in slipcase. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.

London:: Folio Society,. Near Fine. 2007. Hardcover. First edition thus. Fine in a near fine (small edge bump on the spine) slipcase. .

London: The folio Society, 2007. Slipcased. Very Good. Still in shrinkwrap. Black boards, black slipcase. 384 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations. Includes notes and a Scots glossar.

Folio Society, 2007. First edition. Hard cover. New. No dust jacket as issued. . New. New in New Slipcase.

The Folio Society, 2007. 8vo, 384pp. A very good hardback copy in lightly rubbed slipcase. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.

London: The Folio Society,, 2007. Hardcover Hardcover. Fine. Large octavo. vii, 384pp. Original illustrated black cloth. A fine copy in a slightly used slipcase.

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1893. First English Edition, Early Printing. Leather bound. Near fine. First English edition of Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson.. Octavo, x, 277pp. Three-quarter leather, glossy marbled paper boards. Four raised bands, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Lacking advertisements, indicating early printing. Solid text block, light rubbing to edges of spine, touch of foxing to flyleaves, a near fine example. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Complete with 28 full-page illustrations, including frontispiece with tissue guard and color map.

Cassell & Company, 1893. Hardcover. 8vo size, x,277pp plus publisher's catalogue, original cloth boards, title gilt on spine and one upper cover with attractive gilt illustration, slight wear to extremities, spine quite cocked (slanted), colour pattern to end papers (slightly 'dusty' and with some spots and marks), small private ex libris device on front paste down, frontis with tissue guard and 26 additional illustrations and one tinted map, front hinge just slightly cracked, text clean, overall good

London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Co, 1893. First British edition, published 5 days after the New York edition; 8vo, pp. x, [2], 277, [16] ads; inserted map printed in blue, black, green and red; 28 full-p. illustrations included in the pagination; original pictorial blue cloth; very slight darkening of the spine, else fine and bright. This copy has the price correction in ink in "Works by R. L. S." (p. ii). Beinecke 576; Prideaux 38.

London: Cassell & Company Limited,, 1893. First UK edition, first impression with the price facing the half-title altered in ink. Originally published in the US five days earlier, Island Nights' Entertainments is a collection of three short stories among Stevenson's last completed works before his death in 1894. The first, The Beach of Falesá, is regarded as one of Stevenson's finest stories and it was first published with the title Uma in The Illustrated London News on 2 July 1892. The author begun composing it at Vailima, Samoa: "It just shot through me like a bullet in one of my moments of awe, alone in that tragic jungle … It was very strange, very extravagant, I daresay; but it's varied, and picturesque, and has a pretty love affair, and ends well" (Vailima Letters, 1895, pp. 16-17, quoted in Prideaux). The Bottle Imp, a German folk story with a Hawaiian setting, originally appeared in Black and White in March 1891 and The Isle of Voices, a Polynesian fable, in The National Observer in… Read More

HIS FINEST STORY - CHALLENGING 19TH CENTURY TABOOS
first edition, first issue tall 8vo. x, [2], 277, [3 (blank)], [16 (advts. dated "7G - 3.93.")]pp., cold frontispiece map, numerous illustrations throughout the text, pale turquoise cloth gilt lettered on front cover and spine, pictorially gilt blocked on front cover, decorative paper endpapers, very nice bright copy.
The first issue of the first British edition is indicated by the price being altered in ink in the printed list of Stevenson's works on the verso of the first leaf (facing the half-title). Some copies of the first British issue have the advertisements at the rear dated "7 G- 9.92" but most copies have advertisements dated as in this copy "7G - 3.93.". The book had first appeared in the U.S. 5 days earlier. These stories are set on the island of Samoa where Stevenson spent his last years. Included is The Beach of Falesa which considered to be his finest story and which was originally censored by its British publisher. "The Beach of… Read More