Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 211

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Treasure Island. Frontispiece map in four colors (absent tissue-guard). 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth, spine slightly darkened, spine tips and corners with light fraying; hinges tender, few pages roughly opened; 1/4 morocco folding case. London: Cassell & Company, 1883

Additional Details

first edition, second, third or fourth binding with 8 pages of (unopened) advertisements at end, dated "5R-1083." With the following first issue points: "dead man's chest" not capitalized on pages 2 or 7; the first letter of "vain" broken in the last line on page 40; the "a" missing in line 6, page 63; the period not present after "opportunity" in line 20, page 178; "worse" for "worst" in line 3, page 197. McKay, 240-41; Prideaux 11.