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[STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS]. GOSSE, EDMUND. Gray, London, 1882, 8vo, tan cloth, paper spine label, uncut, binding covered with a preservative varnish (as with many books from Stevenson's Samoan library) which has darkened slightly with age, heel of spine chipped, inner hinges cracked, brown morocco pull-off case, a book on Thomas Gray in the "English Men of Letters" series, PRESENTATION COPY FROM GOSSE TO STEVENSON, inscribed by the former on the front free endpaper: "Robert Louis Stevenson from E.W.G.," with the Stevenson Vailima book label signed by Mrs. Isobel Strong--PATMORE, COVENTRY. Florilegium Amantis. Edited by Richard Garnett, [1879], 12mo, brown cloth, paper spine label, label a bit chipped, inner hinges cracked, red half morocco slipcase, FROM STEVENSON'S LIBRARY, with a printed presentation slip "From the Author" tipped in at front, with Stevenson's Skerryvore bookplate, and with a number of passages marked in pencil by Stevenson (beneath the poem "A Warning" on p. 89 is the pencilled word "magnificent" -- apparently in Stevenson's hand), bookplate of Charles Dexter Allen; both London, together 2 vols., original cloth and printed paper spine labels, FIRST EDITIONS. (2)