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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Treasure Island. London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company,
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Treasure Island. London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company,
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Treasure Island. London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, 1883.

8vo. Half-title, map frontispiece printed in 3 colors; 4pp. publisher’s ads at end. (Occasional spotting.) Original sage-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers (spine darkened and leaned, extremities rubbed); morocco-backed folding case.

FIRST EDITION in book form, with the following issue points: “dead man’s chest” not capitalized on pp. 2 and 7; the “7” is stamped in on the pagination of p. 127; the full-stop is dropped from line 20 of p. 178.

ONE OF THE FIRST 750 COPIES PRINTED on 14 November 1883 with the advertisement's dated "5G-783". A further 1250 copies of the first edition were printed several weeks later. Stevenson’s Treasure Island is considered “the finest tale of maritime adventure that has been told since Defoe produced his great romance” (Prideaux). Beinecke/McKay 241; Osborne 2:1030; Prideaux 11.
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Treasure Island. London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company,

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