New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. 4 pp undated ads. Original printed yellow wrappers. First American Edition of this collection of tales, some of which (like "Thrawn Janet" and "Markham") are along the same vein as JEKYLL AND HYDE - Stevenson called such stories his "creepers." This copy is in yellow wrappers (others were bound in red cloth and offered at a higher price). This is a very good copy, with minor soil, wrinkling and edge-wear of the very delicate wrapper -- rather remarkable condition, actually, for so fragile a volume. In our experience the American edition (in cloth or especially in wrappers) is much scarcer than the English one, even on this side of the Atlantic. Beinecke 413; Princeton 33A, copy 2. Seller Inventory # 13543

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Title: THE MERRY MEN and Other Tales and Fables

Publication Date: 1887

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st Edition

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We deal in literary first editions of the Nineteenth, and early Twentieth, centuries -- writers such as Conrad, Dickens, Doyle, Hardy, James, Kipling, London, Stevenson, Trollope, Twain, Verne, Wilde, etc.

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This is an individual proprietorship -- Richard S. Loomis Jr. d/b/a Sumner & Stillman. Our street address is 24 High Street, Yarmouth ME 04096.

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