Island nights' entertainments.
London.
Cassell & Company, 1893.
First edition.
8vo.
First issue, with inked price alteration to initials advertisement leaf. x, [2], 277p, [19]. With 28 full-page illustrations by Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell. Original publisher's pictorial blue/green cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled, a trifle cocked. Endpapers browned, later armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon to FEP.
The first edition, first issue, of Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-1894) short story collection, comprising 'The Beach of Falesa', 'The Bottle Imp', and 'The Isle of Voices'.
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref: 27422
