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Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, first edition, first issue, 1883.

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Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, first edition, first issue, 1883.
Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, first edition, first issue, 1883.
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Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, first edition, first issue, half-title, map frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at end dated "783", light very occasional foxing, hinges cracked but firm, original green cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine darkened, neat repair to spine ends, corners a little bumped, slightly rubbed, [Prideaux 11], 8vo, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883.*** First issue with the following points: advertisements dated July 1883; "dead Man's Chest" not capitalized on pp.2 & 7; "rain" for "vain" on last line of p.40; "a" missing on p.63, line 6; full-stop dropped from p.178, line 20 ; "worse" for "worst" on p.197, line 3.
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Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, first edition, first issue, 1883.

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