Property from the Jean Hart Kislak Collection

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company, 1883

8vo (190 x 121 mm). Half-title, frontispiece map printed in 3 colors, 8-page publisher's advertisement at end marked 5R-1083 erroneously listing Treasure Island with 304 pages. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; cloth worn and rubbed at spine ends and along joints with min🐷or losses, inner hinges starting. Blue cloth box. 

First edition with the following points present: deadman's chest without capitals; "worse" for "worst"; the period is dropped from lin🍌e 20 of p.178; advertisements dated 5R-1283.

"The finest tale of ma൩ritime adventure that has been told since Defoe produced his great romance" (Prideaux).

REFERENCE:

Beinecke 241; Gumuchia𝔉n 5443; McKay 240; Osborne 2:🐎1030