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Auction archive: Lot number 55

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894) A uniformly bound set of...

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$6,600
Auction archive: Lot number 55

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894) A uniformly bound set of...

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$6,600
Beschreibung:

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). A uniformly bound set of his works, mostly London, mostly FIRST EDITIONS comprising
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). A uniformly bound set of his works, mostly London, mostly FIRST EDITIONS comprising: Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company, 1883. 8 o. Half-title; frontispiece map in three colors. (Minor marginal browning.) FIRST EDITION, with the following issue points: "dead man's chest" not capitalized on pp. 2 and 7; the "7" present in the pagination on p. 127; the period dropped from line 20 of p. 178; "worse" for "worst" in line 3 at p. 197; 4-page publisher's advertisements dated "5G-783," which identifies this volumes as a first binding of the first edition Beinecke 240. -- A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. 8 o. With the original blue cloth, front cover gilt-stamped with printer's device, spine gilt-lettered, bound in FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, binding with apostrophe on spine. Beinecke 192. -- Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751. [London], 1886. Folding frontispiece map (laid down). -- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. London: C. Kegan Paul 1879. FIRST EDITION, frontispiece by Walter Crane -- And 36 other works in 39 volumes. Together 40 works in 43 volumes. Uniformly bound in modern dark green calf (7 in a variant calf binding), spines gilt, original cloth bound in at end. (43)

Auction archive: Lot number 55
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
5 December 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). A uniformly bound set of his works, mostly London, mostly FIRST EDITIONS comprising
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). A uniformly bound set of his works, mostly London, mostly FIRST EDITIONS comprising: Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company, 1883. 8 o. Half-title; frontispiece map in three colors. (Minor marginal browning.) FIRST EDITION, with the following issue points: "dead man's chest" not capitalized on pp. 2 and 7; the "7" present in the pagination on p. 127; the period dropped from line 20 of p. 178; "worse" for "worst" in line 3 at p. 197; 4-page publisher's advertisements dated "5G-783," which identifies this volumes as a first binding of the first edition Beinecke 240. -- A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. 8 o. With the original blue cloth, front cover gilt-stamped with printer's device, spine gilt-lettered, bound in FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, binding with apostrophe on spine. Beinecke 192. -- Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751. [London], 1886. Folding frontispiece map (laid down). -- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. London: C. Kegan Paul 1879. FIRST EDITION, frontispiece by Walter Crane -- And 36 other works in 39 volumes. Together 40 works in 43 volumes. Uniformly bound in modern dark green calf (7 in a variant calf binding), spines gilt, original cloth bound in at end. (43)

Auction archive: Lot number 55
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
5 December 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
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