The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
first edition
1901 · New York
by Balfour, Graham
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First Edition. First printing A two volume set both books of which are in very good+ condition in red buckram cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spines and the upper edges of the text blocks are in gilt. The first free end papers of both volumes are clipped at the upper corners. The heads and heels of both volumes are lightly rubbed and there is a newspaper article pasted to the first free end paper of the first volume which describes the discovery of a brass plaque commemorating Stevenson which was found in the Solomon Islands in 1963. The second volume has a scratch across the front board. The first volume contains 256 pages of text followed by a fold-out, color map of the south sea islands. The second volume contains 275 pages including an index. (Inventory #: TB16729)