St Ives

v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters… Read more about this item

ADOPT THIS BOOK!! Thank you for supporting our three hounds in our small endeavor! 1897 FIRST ED - BROWN CLOTH HARDCOVER - DISCOLORATION TO FRONT AND BACK COVERS - LIGHT RUBBING TO CORNERS -AND TO TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE - SEVERAL PAGES DOG EARED - PAGES ARE TONED - FORMER OWNER'S NAME IN PENCIL AND PRICE… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. scuffing to covers, some edge wear to covers, fading to spine, library marks endpapers and spine, otherwise book clean and tight.. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex Library.

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Green cloth cover Gilt lettering on spine and gilt decoration on front board. Hard cover, no dust jacket. Very good condition.

New York: E. P. Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover and dust jacket show only light wear. New introduction in this 1958 edition. ; Everyman's Library; Vol. 904 .

London: William Heinemann,, 1898. First British edition of Stevenson's unfinished novel, originally published in the US the preceding year, the last six chapters of which were supplied by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Octavo (182 x 118 mm). Bound for Asprey in black morocco gilt, titles in gilt on spine, raised bands with compartments ruled in gilt, gilt-ruled edges and turn-ins, blue… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. First British edition, duodecimo size, 320 pp. In the novel "St. Ives", Stevenson tells the tale of a Napoleanic soldier who is captured and imprisoned in Britain. The soldier is actually of royal birth and falls in love with a woman while imprisoned. He eventually escapes and has… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1898. First British edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 312; slightly rubbed, else a very good, sound copy in original gray cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. Beinecke 655.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Prior owner name on the front-free endpaper; small abrasion on lower title page; Light wear at corner tips. /No Jacket.. 438p.

J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 1934. First Edition Thus. 327 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to edges. Wear marks overall.

1925. London, Waverly, 1925. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. XIX, 433 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing to the spine. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen - Translator Erik Haugaard. [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Waverley Edition - Volume XIII] St. Ives:… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. vi, [2], 438pp., and four-page publisher's catalogue at the back. Publisher's brown cloth with a decorative design stamped in gold and green on front cover, gilt spine. Contemporary owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Ex-library with St. John's Lutheran Sunday School bookplate on front… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1919. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. Green cloth. Gilt top edge. 383 pp. Shelf wear. Sticker inside front cover. Tight and clean. This is an attractive antique copy of Stevenson's unfinished novel, completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who,… Read more about this item

Dent,, [1937]. Sm. 8vo., small signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, red top, decorative endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter reinforced at margins. With the Rhys EL essay and 8pp series catalogue at end. First published in EL in 1934. … Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. First English edition. Black cloth gilt. A little rubbing, near fine.

London: William Heinemann, 1898. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of black cloth-covered boards, a little bit of old water-staining to outer edge of front board, original owner's gift message dated Christmas 1897 on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published on May 5th 1897, this is the second… Read more about this item

This "old timer" is very clean & very tight!

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 Book. Illus. by G. Grenville Manlon. Good Plus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original green cloth on boards. Top edges gilt. Front hinge cracked. 438 pp..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897., 1897.. Very good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt with a brightly colored device in green & gilt on the front cover & in gilt with a decoration in gilt on the spine. The binding is slightly rubbed & bumped with a few small red stains near the top edge of… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Precedes the UK edition. Original brown cloth blocked in gilt. Slight spine lean, but a nice copy. Published posthumously, A.T. Quiller-Couch wrote the final six chapters consulting notes and outlines left by Stevenson.