Stevenson´s Treasure Island in first edition
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16 500 SEK
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8 000 SEK
Beskrivning
THE MOST FAMOUS PIRATE TALE EVER WRITTEN. STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Treasure Island. London (Cassell & Company, Limited) 1883.
8:o. (7), viii, (1)-292, (8, advertisements, dated 5R-1083) pp. Frontispiece map (Treasure Island printed in four colours and with original tissue guard intact).
Original green cloth, worn, cracks in the hinges and partly loose in the binding. Title with blue stamp "The daily Chronicle" in lower margin. First edition, first issue, with the following points:
"dead man´s chest" is not capitalized on pgs. 2 and 7, "rain" for "vain" in the last line of pg. 40, the "a" is not present in line 6 of pg. 63, the "8" is present in the pagination on pg. 83 which is generally lacking, the "7" is lacking in the pagination on pg. 127 some copies have bold-stamped "7", the period is lacking following "opportunity" in line 20 of pg. 178, "worse" for "worst" in line 3 of pg. 197, and "Treasure Island" is listed as having 304 pages on pg. 2 of the publisher´s advertisements.
Konditionsrapport
Partly loose in the binding. See text.
Auktionsnummer:
288574
Datum:
2015-01-31