Robert Louis Stevenson — Island Nights&Apos; Entertainment

London , Cassell & Company, 1893. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue, of three Stevenson short stories in the original binding. The first edition, with the visible revision of price from 5/- to 6/-. With the bookplate of Angus Alexander Colles Heron to the front free-endpaper, from his Stevensoniana library. ""The Beach of Falesa", regarded as one of his finest short stories. He described it as "the first realistic South Sea story; I mean with real South Sea character and details of life" (ibid. 7.161). It was collected in Island Nights' Entertainments (1893) with two other tales, "The Bottle Imp", a German folk story given a Hawaiian setting (which was published in translation in a Samoan missionary magazine), and "The Isle of Voices", a Polynesian fable" -ODNB. In the original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt decoration. Externally, slightly bumped, with a little rubbing and darkening. The hinges are strained. Internally, strained in places, with a few gatherings becoming loose. With light browning to the edges and the occasional mark. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .