1977, ISBN: 658e72cce951323ebc8680ef91d016ee

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. A collaborative comic mystery between the Scottish novelist and his American step-son.. It was adapted in the 1960s into a black-comedy film starrin… Mehr…

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. A collaborative comic mystery between the Scottish novelist and his American step-son.. It was adapted in the 1960s into a black-comedy film starring many great British actors.This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Bright red cloth binding, titled in black on the front cover and in gilt on the spine. Clean text; 283 pages; with a 16-page catalog ["August 1889"] in the rear. Decorative endpapers featuring a sailing ship. Contemporary signature in ink on the Title Page; bookplate of the collector and bibliographer Adrian Homer Goldstone (1897-1977) on the front paste-down. Mildly rubbed, with a faded to brown spine [gilt remains bright]; very occasionally, some faint spots within textblock. A solid and attractive copy. In an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Longmans, Green and Co., 1889, 3<

1895, ISBN: 658e72cce951323ebc8680ef91d016ee

London: William Heinemann, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Full blue calf by Riviere; spine attractively gilt; red labels, marbled endpapers. 237 pages. Advertisements dated … Mehr…

London: William Heinemann, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Full blue calf by Riviere; spine attractively gilt; red labels, marbled endpapers. 237 pages. Advertisements dated August 1895. Original publisher's cloth bound in at the end. "Stevenson's last novel, a grim study of shady characters in the South Seas (written with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne), is full of memorable ghastly characters: the horror is so thick in places that as one critic aptly described it, 'one does not so much read the last few chapters as feel them crawling up one's spine.'" - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 403. Beinecke 605. A few small scuffs, but an excellent copy., William Heinemann, 1894, 4<

1889, ISBN: 658e72cce951323ebc8680ef91d016ee

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Longmans, Green, and Co, London], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. First Edition. Octavo. 283 p. + 16 p. publisher's advertisements dated Januar… Mehr…

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Longmans, Green, and Co, London], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. First Edition. Octavo. 283 p. + 16 p. publisher's advertisements dated January 1889. Red cloth boards stamped in black. Decorative endpapers Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Soiled at spine with some patches to boards. Moderate lean to spine. Slight surface cracking to hinges but binding is sound. Spotting to pages but unmarked.<

1919, ISBN: 658e72cce951323ebc8680ef91d016ee

Longmans Green and co. 1917 Longmans Green and co new impression leather-bound hardback; Very Good condition, burgundy leather with gilt decoration, top page edge, just gift note dated 19… Mehr…

Longmans Green and co. 1917 Longmans Green and co new impression leather-bound hardback; Very Good condition, burgundy leather with gilt decoration, top page edge, just gift note dated 1919 on fep; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Full-Leather. 1917., Longmans Green and co, 1917, 3<