STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Treasure Island. London: Cassell, 1883. 8vo, original blue cloth, light wear at heel of spine, rubbing at other extremities, spine a shade darkened, endpaper cracked at front inner hinge, leaf of publisher's ads removed at end, blue cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, with following points: leaf (paginated 1-2) of ads at rear dated "5G-783," "Dead Man's Chest" not capitalized at pp. 2 and 7, "a" lacking in line 6 of p. 63, "7" present (stamped in?) in the pagnination at p. 127, period dropped from line 20 at p. 178, "worse" for "worst" in line 3 at p. 197, "8" lacking in the pagination of p. 83, frontispiece map in three colors. Beinecke 240 et seq. Bookplate of Michael Sadleir.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Treasure Island. London: Cassell, 1883. 8vo, original blue cloth, light wear at heel of spine, rubbing at other extremities, spine a shade darkened, endpaper cracked at front inner hinge, leaf of publisher's ads removed at end, blue cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, with following points: leaf (paginated 1-2) of ads at rear dated "5G-783," "Dead Man's Chest" not capitalized at pp. 2 and 7, "a" lacking in line 6 of p. 63, "7" present (stamped in?) in the pagnination at p. 127, period dropped from line 20 at p. 178, "worse" for "worst" in line 3 at p. 197, "8" lacking in the pagination of p. 83, frontispiece map in three colors. Beinecke 240 et seq. Bookplate of Michael Sadleir.

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