STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS Treasure Island

Sale 2332 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 1,500

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Treasure Island. Frontispiece map in three colors. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered crimson cloth, cocked, spine slightly darkened, ends and edges somewhat rubbed, scattered staining and few small abraded areas on covers; front hinge cracked, intermittent internal discoloration, old ownership inscription penciled on preliminary leaf. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1883

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first edition, mixed issue with 8 pages of advertisements at end, the later state dated "5R-12.83." McKay states that these only found in the 1884 stated second printing. This copy dated 1883 and 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 and 242; Prideaux 11.