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Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
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Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751. [London]: Cassell and Company, 1886.
First English edition, first issue, with "business" in line 11 on page 40, "nine o'clock” on page 64, "Long Islands" on page 101, and advertisements dated April 1886. “It is far more than the adventure story for boys that it purports to be. Making skilful use of Scots it brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of Scotland in the period following the 1745 Jacobite rising and explores the differences between lowland and highland mentality in the contrasting characters of David Balfour and Alan Breck. It remains one of Stevenson's most popular books” (ODNB). Beinecke 378.
Octavo. Folding colored map, 17 pp. publisher's advertisements (occasional light spots in text). Original oxblood cloth (light wear at extremities); custom box.
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751. [London]: Cassell and Company, 1886.
First English edition, first issue, with "business" in line 11 on page 40, "nine o'clock” on page 64, "Long Islands" on page 101, and advertisements dated April 1886. “It is far more than the adventure story for boys that it purports to be. Making skilful use of Scots it brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of Scotland in the period following the 1745 Jacobite rising and explores the differences between lowland and highland mentality in the contrasting characters of David Balfour and Alan Breck. It remains one of Stevenson's most popular books” (ODNB). Beinecke 378.
Octavo. Folding colored map, 17 pp. publisher's advertisements (occasional light spots in text). Original oxblood cloth (light wear at extremities); custom box.
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