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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS.
Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the
Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.
Folding color frontispiece map. 8vo,
publisher’s gilt-lettered red cloth, spine sunned, light fingersoiling, slight lean; black endpa-
pers, penciled signature to half-title, otherwise unmarked.
[London:] Cassell & Company, 1886
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE
,
with “business’’ on p. 40; “nine o’clock’’ on p. 64; “Long
Islands’’ on p. 101; and advertisements dated “5 G. 4.86” and “5 B. 4.86.”With the fragile
folding map bright and untorn. Prideaux 18; Beinecke 378.
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STOUT, REX.
Gambit * The Mother Hunt * The Father Hunt.
Together, 3
volumes. 8vo, publisher’s cloth; dust jackets; tape mends to verso of Mother Hunt,
unclipped; contents clean.
FIRST EDITIONS OF THREE NERO WOLFE MYSTERIES
.
NewYork:Viking, (1962); (1963); (1968)
[400/600]
FIRST BOOK
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STEVENS,WALLACE.
Harmo-
nium.
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, printed
paper spine label, covers slightly faded,
spine age-toned, tips rubbed with short
horizontal split near foot; contents clean.
NewYork: Knopf, 1923
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR
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S FIRST
BOOK
,
third binding state. Edelstein notes that,
from an edition of 1500 copies, 500 were
bound in checked paper boards with a cloth
spine and a printed label in August 1923. In
November 1924, 215 copies were bound in
striped paper boards with a cloth spine and a
printed label. Finally, the remaining 715 copies
were bound in the present binding around
November 1926. Edelstein, A1.a.; Connolly
100, 46.