Jun 15, 2023 - Sale 2641

Sale 2641 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 8vo, original gilt-lettered green cloth, slight lean, light wear to spine tips and corners, few minor blemishes to covers; contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, small booklabel removed from pastedown, mild foxing to blanks after 4 pages publisher's advertisements at end. First edition, released in America four days before its first appearance in England. 1250 copies were issued in cloth and 3000 in wrappers. Beinecke 346; Prideaux 17; McKay 348. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886