![]() ![]() Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.An exceptionally good copy, most scarce with cloth in this condition. ![]() ![]() Text very neatly and expertly recased into original cloth, with just a touch of restoration to spine ends only. Issued in cloth of different colors, no priority. With the following first state points: “Dead Man’s Chest” not capitalized on pages 2 and 7 “a” lacking on page 63, line 6 “7” not present on page 127 period dropped from page 178, line 20 (after “opportunity”) “worse” for ‘worst’ on page 197, line 3 frontispiece map in three colors. “In this story the force of invention and vividness of narrative appealed to every reader… it has taken its place in literature as a classic story of pirate and mutineer adventure” (DNB). The serial version in Young Folks, running through January, 1882, was not especially well-received, but on its appearance in book form the following year (in an edition of only 2000 copies) it was hailed as the best adventure story in print. ![]() “The finest tale of maritime adventure that has been told since Defoe… at Castleton of Braemar in the summer of 1881, with the object of relieving the tedium of a schoolboy-prompted by the rough sketch of an island-map” (Prideaux, 28). Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition, first state, of Stevenson’s classic adventure story. “A CLASSIC STORY OF PIRATE AND MUTINEER ADVENTURE”: A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF TREASURE ISLAND ![]()
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