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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth, top edges gilt, spine tips rubbed with minimal
exposure, portion of front board mottled, small wrinkles on lower third of spine; tape mend
over short closed tear to bottom edge of contents leaf, small portion of blank fore-margin
restored to first text leaf.
NewYork: Scribner’s, 1886
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
,
preceding the English by four days. 1250 copies were issued in cloth and
3000 in wrappers. Beinecke 346; Prideaux 17; McKay 348. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS.
Treasure Island.
Frontispiece map in four
colors; tissue-guard. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth, slight lean, extremities rubbed;
light intermittent spotting to contents, discreet bookseller’s label to front and rear paste-
downs.
London: Cassell & Company, 1883
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION
,
MIXED
(
MAINLY FIRST
)
ISSUE
with 4 pages of advertisements at end, dated “5G-
783” which identifies this volume as a first binding of the first edition.With the following first issue
points: “dead man’s chest” not capitalized on pages 2 or 7; the first letter of “vain” broken in the last
line on page 40; the “a” missing in line 6, page 63; the period not present after “opportunity” in line
20, page 178; “worse” for “worst” in line 3, page 197. Mixed issue points include: the “7” over-
stamped in the pagination on page 127 and the “8” is present in the pagination on page 83. McKay,
240-41; Prideaux 11; Beinecke 240.
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