Details
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Treasure Island. London: Cassell, 1883. 8vo, original olive green cloth, some very slight rubbing at joints; extreme lower fore-corners of a few pages slightly chipped; maroon morocco pull-off case. FIRST EDITION, with early issue points: "Dead Man's Chect" not capitalized at pp. 2 and 7; "a" lacking in line 6 of p. 63; "7" stamped in at p. 127; period dropped from line 20 of p. 178; "worse" for "worst" in line 3 at p. 197; "8" present in the pagination of p. 83; frontispiece map in three colors; 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end dated "5R-1083." Beinecke 241 (so-called second, third or fourth binding). A FINE COPY.
Provenance
The Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation (sale, Christie's New York, 22 November 1985, lot 115).