Blue Lagoon by Stacpoole, First Edition (8 results)

Twenty-first edition. 8vo. [ix], 269 pp. Cloth in dustwrapper, npc, very good. (11478). The Blue Lagoon was released as a film in 1949, directed by Frank Launder and starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. STACPOOLE (H. de Vere). Autograph letter signed to Douglas Sladen, with Writers' Club invitation card. 17 February 1922. 1 page on headed paper 'Astle House, Castle Hedingham, Essex,' together with printed Writers' Club invitation (completed in manuscript, inviting 'Mr & Mrs Douglas Sladen' to Mrs Stacpoole's gathering, Friday Nov. 3rd [n.y.]); both very good. A genial note from the Irish novelist H. de Vere Stacpoole, author of The Blue Lagoon (1908), written to his long-time literary associate Douglas Sladen, about club matters. An attractive literary association between two well-connected Edwardian authors, accompanied by the scarce printed Writers' Club invitation in Mrs Stacpoole's name. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Illustrated Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 326, 13 colour plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, decorated and lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Two young children, cousins Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and are stranded on a lush tropical island. The cook, kindly old salt Paddy Button, assumes the responsibility for caring for the children. Paddy eventually dies in a drunken binge and the children are left to survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise. Somewhat used copy: lacking front endpaper, rubbing and general wear to cloth with some wear at front hinge - otherwise sound with complete text; good only.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First American Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. The Blue Lagoon Omnibus by H. de Vere Stacpoole First Edition Hutchinson 1930. No inscriptions and completely free of any foxing. Publisher's black cloth covers are VG with slightly rubbed edges. In original VG+ pictorial dust jacket priced at 7/6.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First American Edition, 1st Printing. vii [3] + 326 pages, octavo. Navy blue cloth covers with gilt titles, very bright. Covers lightly worn at edges. Some light foxing/browning on endpapers; top edge of book block has light stain. Very Good. Photos available upon request. 020207A.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Very scarce true first edition of this key Stacpoole title, the book which made his name and which has been filmed on several occasions. In original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. 326pp text with 9pp undated ads at rear. General light wear to covers with rubbing to extremities and light soiling. Light grubbiness and foxing passim. Front free endpaper neatly replaced. An acceptable copy of a book that is hardly ever encountered in the first edition. It went through a dozen printings in this original format in the first two years before the deluxe edition with illustrations by Willy Pogany was issued in 1910. Unwin had no idea this would be a best-seller and probably only printed 2,000 copies or less. No other copies online at time of listing and none offered on ABE in the past 5 years.

First Edition. THE BLUE LAGOON, Lippincott, 1908, first American edition (although apparently utilizing the British sheets with the words "Edinburgh Press" printed on the colophon page), slight wear to the fore edge corner tips and base of the spine, else a tight, bright very good to very good+ copy. Not to be confused with the 1910 Duffield edition which is a reprint. Quite scarce.