treasure island robert louis stevenson first edition

First Edition, First Printing of HH Little Classics.

Book.New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993. Jim Escapes From The Ship, Discovers The Marooned Sailor, Ben Gunn, Who Has Already Found And Cached The Treasure, And Finally The Victors Get Safely Aboard The Ship With The Treasure. The Battle Between The Pirates And Jim's Party Is An Exciting And Bloody One, Taking Place Both On The Island And Aboard Ship. Jim, Hidden In An Apple Barrel, Overhears The Plans Of The Crew To Mutiny, And He Warns His Comrades. Unfortunately, Their Crew Includes One-Legged Long John Silver, A Pirate Also In Search Of The Treasure, And A Number Of His Confederates. Fitting Out A Ship, They Hire Hands And Set Out On Their Adventure.

The Packet Contains A Map Showing The Location Of The Pirate Flint's Buried Treasure, Which Jim, Doctor Livesey, And Squire Trelawney Determine To Find. Jim Snatches Up A Packet Of Papers To Square The Sailor's Debt, When They Were Forced To Retreat From The Inn. Jim And His Mother Barely Escape Death When Blind Pew, Black Dog, And Other Pirates Descend On The Inn In Search Of The Sea Dog's Papers. He Hires Jim To Keep A Watch Out For Other Sailors, But Despite All Precautions, He Is Hunted Out And Served With The Black Spot That Means Death. An Old Sea Dog Comes To This Peaceful Inn One Day, Apparently Intending To Finish His Life There. The Story Is Told In The First Person By Jim Hawkins, Whose Mother Kept The Admiral Benbow Inn, And Who Shared In The Adventures From Start To Finish. Bound In Full Red Leather With Lettering, Border And Design Stamped In Gilt. Wilson Collector S Edition Silk Ribbon Place Marker. 178: full-stop missing following 'opportunity' in 4th paragraph P. 83: the '8' in pagination is supposed to be missing, here it is present P. 40, last two lines: the 'v' in vain, and also the 'm' in the word miscreant above is broken P. 2 & 7: 'deadman's chest' not capitalized P. A very good copy, with first edition points as follows: P. Quayle, to front pastedown, covers lightly soiled, very slight lean, upper corner lightly bruised, paper over rear joint split which has been somewhat crudely repaired, housed in a custom, highly durable, clamshell box of brown/maroon pebbled cloth with inset mounted copy of map and lettered in gilt, double gilt-stamped leather spine labels.

Bookplate of noted British bibliophile, Eric S. Original frontispiece map in 4 colours with tissue guard. viii, 292, followed by 4 pages of publisher's advertisements numbered 5G-783. Original brown silk-grained cloth, bordered in blind, black coated endpapers, gilt spine lettering (issued in various colours without priority).

Treasure island robert louis stevenson first edition