Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne — The Ebb-Tide, a Trio and Quartette

London, William Heinemann, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling and terrifying adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. The first edition, first impression of this novel written in a collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.This work was published the year Stevenson died.The novel follows the lengthy voyage of a stolen ship and three remarkable characters.Sullivan in 'The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural' describes the work as 'full of memorable ghastly characters: the horror is so thick in places that as one critic aptly described it, 'one does not so much read the last few chapters as feel them crawling up one's spine.'"With the publisher's catalogue to the rear dated August 1894.  In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with small loss of cloth to back strip tail, and back strip significantly age toned. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Rear free endpaper lacking. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, with handling marks throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .