STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Father Damien: an Open Letter to The Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu. Sydney 1890. 32 pp., 8vo, wire-stitched as issued, a slight vertical crease in each leaf, half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, privately printed for Stevenson presumably in an edition of 25 copies, with an autograph correction by him, as usual, on page 13. Beinecke 506 ("According to Edmund Gosse the edition consisted of 25 copies"). A fine copy of Stevenson's famous letter (and one of the great diatribes in the English language) in support of Father Damien who ran the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Father Damien: an Open Letter to The Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu. Sydney 1890. 32 pp., 8vo, wire-stitched as issued, a slight vertical crease in each leaf, half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, privately printed for Stevenson presumably in an edition of 25 copies, with an autograph correction by him, as usual, on page 13. Beinecke 506 ("According to Edmund Gosse the edition consisted of 25 copies"). A fine copy of Stevenson's famous letter (and one of the great diatribes in the English language) in support of Father Damien who ran the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.