Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Wrong Box

Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne · 1889 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1889. First edition. Cloth. Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne's first co-written novel, a humorous black comedy, this being the first edition. First edition first issue, with the adverts dated January 1889.Sixteen pages of adverts ...

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1909 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1909. Leather. A lovely later impression of this biographical collection on some of literature's great men, written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Containing the essays of Robert Louis Stevenson covering the literature and biographies of nine prominen...

The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and a Quartette

Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne · 1894 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, William Heinemann, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this novel by R L Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, in the original bronze cloth. The first edition, first impression of this novel written in a collaboration between Robert L...

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1976 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Methuen, 1976. Cloth. A lovely illustrated edition of Stevenson's classic maritime adventure novel, featuring the drawings of Mervyn Peake and presented in the increasingly scarce dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, encased in the increas...

Weir of Hermiston; in the South Seas

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1896 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1896-1900. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition works from eminent Scottish novelist and travel writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, including his unfinished novel 'Weir of Hermiston&apos. Two smart first edition works from the writer best known f...

Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1890 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1890 . First edition. Paperback. An exceptionally handsome example of the first trade edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's defence of Belgian Catholic priest and leper colony minister Father Damien De Veuster. The first trade edition of this work, ...

The Life of Samuel Johnson; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; the Master of Ballantrae: A Winter&Apos;S Tale; Quentin Durward; Nicholas Nickleby; Les Miserables; the Tenant of Wildfell Hall; the Count of Monte-Cristo: Volume II; the Compleat Angler; the Imitation of Christ; the Greatest Thing in the World.

James Boswell; Robert Louis Stevenson; Sir Walter Scott; Charles Dickens; Victor Hugo; Anne Bronte; Alexandre Dumas; Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton; Thomas à Kempis; Henry Drummond · 1920 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London and Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press, c1920. Leather. A lovely illustrated collection of Collins classics, including the likes of Dickens, Stevenson and Scott, smartly presented in red, predominantly morocco, bindings. Collection comprised of:The Life of Samuel Johnson...

The Sea Fogs

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1907 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London , Paul Elder and Co, 1907. Cloth. A limited first edition of this work by Robert Louis Stevenson. With illustrations by Albertine Randall Wheelan. This edition was limited to 1000 copies. In a quarter vellum binding in protective plastic slipcase. Externally, very smart...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Limited Edition

Robert Louis Stevenson; Edmund Gosse [ed.] · 1550 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Cassell & Company Limited. Cloth. A very scarce complete limited edition twenty volume set of this collection from the author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A very scarce complete twenty volume set of works by Robert Louis Stevenson...

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson; Sidney Colvin [ed.] · 1901 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.16 | $47.57 | ¥7,597)

London, Methuen and Co. 1901. Cloth. A nice set, complete in two volumes, of the letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited and with an introduction by his friend, Sir Sidney Colvin, with two portrait frontispieces to each volume. Complete in two volumes.With two monochrome por...

Moral Emblems and Other Poems

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1921 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1921. Cloth. A lovely illustrated copy of this collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. A collection of poems, illustrated by the author, which originally consisted of two small booklets of poetry and engravi...

Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1899 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1899. Leather. A finely bound twenty-second edition of this collection of essays from Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, bound by Bickers & Son. Twenty-second edition. The first collection of Stevenson's essays, containing personal writings p...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1924 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, The Waverley Book Company Limited, 1924-1925 . Cloth. The uncommon Waverley edition of this collection of works by Robert Louis Stevenson. Sixteen volumes of The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson in the original publisher's cloth binding. Stevenson was a Scottish n...

Memories and Portraits

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1919 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Chatto & Windus , 1919. Cloth. An excellent new impression of this collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson. Collection of sixteen essays by the popular author Robert Louis Stevenson. A new impression of this work originally published in 1887. Essay topics range ...

The Complete Short Stories

Robert Louis Stevenson; Ian Bell [ed. and intro.] · 1994 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1994. Cloth. A smart pair, first American edition, first impression, collecting the shorter works of prominent Scottish novelist and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson. A complete pair. Bound in original publisher's red cloth. Without slipca...

The Plays of W. E Henley and R.L. Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson; William Ernest Henley; Deacon Brodie; Beau Austin; Admiral Guinea; Robert Macaire · 1896 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, William Heinemann, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition copy of the collected plays of William Ernest Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson. The limited first edition, with this being no.250 of 250 copies printed. In the publisher's original red cloth ...

The Pavilion on the Links

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1913 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1913 . Cloth. A smart copy of the first separate book edition of this pioneering short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Gordon Browne. The first separate book edition, previously published in Cornhill Magazine in 1880, and 'New Arab...

A Child&Apos;S Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1885 . Cloth. British suffragist Pippa Strachey's personal copy of the second edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's anthology of poetry celebrating childhood. Inscribed 'Pippa Strachey, April 19th 1886, R.M.P.' to the half tit...

Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1906 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1906. Leather. A smart copy of this collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, in a leather binding. Twenty-seventh edition. Label of 'The Educational Supply Assoc. Ltd' to rear pastedown. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist...

St Ives in the Pall Mall Magazine

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1896 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Editorial and Publishing Office, 1896-97. First edition. Fine Binding. A fabulous first edition of St Ives from the Pall Mall Magazine in a recent morocco binding. This a collection of the first printed serial appearances of St Ives extracted from Pall Mall Magazine an...