STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Father Damien: an Open Letter to The Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu, Sydney, 1890, 32 pp., 8vo, wire-stitched as issued, 1 inch piece chipped from heel of spine, title-page (slightly soiled) and last leaf with small marginal tears, laid in red half morocco protective boards, FIRST EDITION, privately printed for Stevenson (presumably in an edition of 25 copies), with the author's holograph corrections on pages 7, 13, and 20 as in other copies. Beinecke 506 ("According to Edmund Gosse the edition consisted of 25 copies"). 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; A Child's Garden of Verses, London, 1885, 12mo, original blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed, a little shaken, FIRST EDITION. the variant with the apostrophe shaped like a "7" in "Child's" on spine. Beinecke 193; Hayward 297. (2)

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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, 1 inch piece chipped from heel of spine, title-page (slightly soiled) and last leaf with small marginal tears, laid in red half morocco protective boards, FIRST EDITION, privately printed for Stevenson (presumably in an edition of 25 copies), with the author's holograph corrections on pages 7, 13, and 20 as in other copies. Beinecke 506 ("According to Edmund Gosse the edition consisted of 25 copies"). 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; A Child's Garden of Verses, London, 1885, 12mo, original blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed, a little shaken, FIRST EDITION. the variant with the apostrophe shaped like a "7" in "Child's" on spine. Beinecke 193; Hayward 297. (2)