Stevenson Robert Louis Simpson E Blantyre (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. No dust jacket.

Condition: Good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt.; t.e.g. The binding is rubbed. The covers are bumped with a stain to the rear cover. [x] & 213 pp. Tipped-in color frontispiece & 30 tipped-in plates, including facsimiles, in B&W & color. 1 plate is detached from its mount; the frontispiece & a few other plates are nearly detached. There is scattered foxing & occasional staining. Good. First edition.A book about the autobiographical sources of Stevenson's fiction.…

Condition: Wie neu. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece (R.L.S. "A deal of Aerial, just a streak of Puck, Much Anthony, of Hamlet most of all, And something of the shorter Catechist" W.E. Henley), VI, 293 pages. Several illustrations (also tipped-in-plates) of Edinburgh throughout some of which are portraits of Stevenson at different times in his life. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with gilt embossed logo and gilt lettering on front board. Deckled fore and bottom edge. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very decent, private giftinscription on endpaper. Protective tissue-guards for illustrations intact throughout. Spine slightly sunned. Includes for example the following essays: Alison Cunningham / Infant days / Spring Equinox / Life at Twenty Five etc.…