Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
SIGNED COPY BELONGING TO UK PRIME MINISTER'S SON STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. Signed on the title-page. 8vo, original decorated navy cloth stamped in black, silver, and gilt (dulled or rubbed free), joints and spine tips frayed, corners bumped, dampstain along outer edge of front board, soiling; Herbert John Gladstone bookplate to front pastedown, gouge to top-edge near gutters with associated tears and creases to leaves, not touching letters; front hinge starting. First edition. With 32 pages publisher's advertisements at end dated September 1886 (the earliest recorded). Bleiler 1533; Beinecke 411. (SFC) London: Chatto & Windus, 1887; inscription: Np, nd