TWELVE EXCEPTIONAL NOVELS
12. Treasure Island STEVENSON, Robert Louis
Cassell, 1883. First edition, first issue with eight pages of adverts dated 5R-1083, thought to be earliest state. Contains textual points, ‘rain’ for ‘vain’ on page 40, ‘dead man’s chest’ not cap - italised on page 2 and ‘worse’ for ‘worst’ on page 197. The 7 is present in page 127 and the 8 present in page 83. Frontispiece map printed in three colours. A fine copy, with just the slightest trace of wear to the spine ends and a small abrasion to the rear joint. Internally, exceptionally fresh and tight with a neat, super - ficial repair to the front hinge. A superb copy, about as bright and clean as one could hope to find. Housed in a quarter moroc - co slipcase and chemise. [44241] £22,500 “Treasure Island established itself as a classic, drawing plaudits from the widest range of literary sensibilities. In 1890 W.B. Yeats wrote to tell [Stevenson] that the book was the only one in which his seafar- ing grandfather had ever taken any pleasure and that he reread it on his deathbed with infinite satisfaction. Jack London, in so many ways RLS’s true spiritual heir, declared: ‘His Treasure Island will be a classic to go down with Robinson Crusoe, Through the Looking Glass and The Jungle Books’” (Frank McLynn - Robert Louis Stevenson). In more re- cent times Michael Morpurgo lists this book as the first to impress and
influence him. Prideaux 11
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