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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. 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; gouge to top-edge near gutters with associated tears and creases to leaves, not touching letters; front hinge starting; Herbert John Gladstone bookplate to front pastedown. London: Chatto & Windus, 1887
first edition, signed by stevenson on the title. With 32 pages publisher's advertisements at end dated September 1886 (the earliest recorded). Scarce signed title. Bleiler 1533; Beinecke 411.
