Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886.

First edition, octavo; half title present; rebound in quarter blue morocco by T.M. Bromace, gilt-stamped spine (lacking advertisements, scattered minor stains; binding somewhat worn, spine faded); 6 7/8 x 4 3/8 in.

"I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both."

Prideaux 17.