Lot no. 73
STEVENSON (Robert Louis). Treasure Island. London, Cassell & Company, 1883. In-12, navy blue morocco, double gilt fillet, gilt ship in centre, spine decorated with gilt ship and anchor irons, inner lace, gilt head, spine and one cover in publisher's percaline preserved, navy morocco jacket and slipcase (Zaehnsdorf). First edition of Treasure Island. The frontispiece features a treasure map printed in three colours. A copy with the characteristics of the first edition: dead man's chest in lower case on pp. 2 and 7; the first letter of vain broken at the end of p. 40; the dot missing after opportunity on p. 178, l. 20; worse instead of worst on p. 197, l. 3; the number 8 missing from the pagination on p. 83; and, at the end of the volume, the publisher's catalogue coded 5R-1083. A very fine copy in an attractive binding by Zaehnsdorf, one of the best English bookbinders of the time.
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