Nov 10, 2016 - Sale 2430

Sale 2430 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
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. New York: Scribner's, 1886

Additional Details

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.