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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894. Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1883. image 1
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894. Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1883. image 2
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894. Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1883. image 3
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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.
Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1883.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.

Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1883. 8vo. Half-title, frontispiece map printed in four colors, 8 pp advertisements coded "5R-1083" at rear. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, black endpapers, custom cloth chemise, red-morocco backed slipcase, some rubbing at the joints and spine lettering, light soiling, pp 267-270 roughly opened, two earlier bookseller catalogue entries pasted to rear fly.
Provenance: Francis Fitz Randolph (bookplate to pastedown).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Stevenson's classic pirate's tale, "a good tale well told" (Silvey 631). With first issue points: battered text to "vain" last line of p 40 (as "rain"), "dead man's chest" on p 7, "7" dropped from pagination on p 127, lacking full stop after "opportunity" on p 178, "worse" in line 3, p 197, ads dated "1083," with this title listed with 304 pages. Prideaux 11.

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