Hardcover
1895 · New York
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. Bookplate of Rex Maugham on the front pastedown. Fine. Attractively bound in modern half green morocco leather and marbled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine with five raised bands; top edge gilt. Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 where he built a house at Vailima. This is his account of the turmoils resulting from the attempts of England, the United States, and Germany to influence the direction of the Polynesian island. (Inventory #: 021517)