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1922-23 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Description
Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding
Complete in twenty-six volumes.
A limited edition of one thousand and sixty sets, of which this is numbered three hundred and fifteen.
Bound by Bickers in a tree calf binding.
The Vailima Edition, named after the village in Samoa where Stevenson spent the final years of his life, and where he is buried.
The collected works of Robert Louis Stevenson, this set including all of the works in the eminent and influential Scottish author.
Crucially this set includes the three works for which Stevenson is best known, 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', and 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'.
Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume.
This set contains:
Volume I: An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes.
Volume II:Virginibus Puerisque, The Amateur Emigrant, The Pacific Capitals, Silverado Squatters.
Volume III: New Arabian Nights, The Pavilion on the Links and Other Tales.
Volume IV: Familiar Studies of Men and Books, Literary Papers.
Volume V: Treasure Island, Prince Otto.
Volume VI: Deacon Brodie or the Double Life and Other Plays.
Volume VII: The Dynamiter, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Body Snatcher.
Volume VIII: A Child's Garden, Underwoods, Ballads, New Poems.
Volume IX: Kidnapped.
Volume X: Catriona, The Further Adventures of David Balfour.
Volume XI: The Merry Men and Other Tales, Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin.
Volume XII: Memories and Portraits, Random Memories, Records of a Family of Engineers.
Volume XIII: The Black Arrow, The Misadventures of John Nicholson.
Volume XIV: The Master of Ballantrae, The Great North Road.
Volume XV: The Wrong Box, Island Nights' Entertainments, Father Damien.
Volume XVI: In the South Seas, A Footnote to History.
Volume XVII: The Wrecker.
Volume XVIII: The Ebb-Tide, Weir of Hermiston, Heathercat, The Young Chevalier.
Volume XVIX: St. Ives.
Volumes XX-XXIII: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Sidney Colvin.
Volume XXIV: Sketches, Criticisms, Lay Morals and Other Essays.
Volume XXV: Juvenilia, Moral Emblems, Fables and Other Papers.
Volume XXVI: Miscellanea.
Condition
In a full tree calf binding, bound by Bickers. Externally, generally smart, a little light rubbing, mostly to the joints and extremities. Front board of Volume I is detached but present. A few light marks to the boards. A small amount of loss to the head of the spine of Volume VIII, XVI, XXIII, XXV, and XXVI. Front joint of Volumes II, V, XXII, and XXIII are starting but firm. Small cracks to the head and tail of the front joint of Volumes IV, VI, IX, XI, and XXVI. Spine label of Volume IX is lifting. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Very Good
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