first edition
1886 · [London]
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
[London]: Cassell & Company, 1886. London]: Cassell & Company, 1886.
Full description:
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: written by himself, and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson. [London]: Cassell & Company, 1886.
First edition, first issue, with "business" instead of "pleasure" on p. 40, line 11, "nine o'clock" instead of "twelve o'clock" on p. 64, line 1, and "Long Islands" instead of "Long Island" on p. 101, lines 9/10. Octavo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 127 mm). viii, 311, [1, ads], [16, ads, dated and "5G.4.86" at bottom of first leaf and "5B.4.86" at bottom of fifth leaf] pp. Folding color frontispiece map.
Publisher's original bright red cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Black coated endpapers. Hinges expertly repaired. Some mild chipped to head and tail of spine. Spine slightly sunned and cloth a bid darkened. Corners a bit bumped. Binding very slightly skewed. Map with a split along once crease, but with no loss. Overall a very good copy.
"Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter'. Balfour, a canny lowlander, finds an echo of some wilder and more romantic self in the wilful and courageous Highland spirit of Alan Breck. A strange and difficult friendship is born, as their adventures begin. Kidnapped has become a classic of historical romance the world over and is justly famous as a novel of travel and adventure in the Scottish landscape. Stevenson's vivid descriptive powers were never better than in his account of remote places and dangerous action in the Highlands in the years after Culloden." (Good Reads).
Beinecke 378. Prideaux, pp. 46-48.
HBS 69217.
$1,000. (Inventory #: 69217)
Full description:
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: written by himself, and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson. [London]: Cassell & Company, 1886.
First edition, first issue, with "business" instead of "pleasure" on p. 40, line 11, "nine o'clock" instead of "twelve o'clock" on p. 64, line 1, and "Long Islands" instead of "Long Island" on p. 101, lines 9/10. Octavo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 127 mm). viii, 311, [1, ads], [16, ads, dated and "5G.4.86" at bottom of first leaf and "5B.4.86" at bottom of fifth leaf] pp. Folding color frontispiece map.
Publisher's original bright red cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Black coated endpapers. Hinges expertly repaired. Some mild chipped to head and tail of spine. Spine slightly sunned and cloth a bid darkened. Corners a bit bumped. Binding very slightly skewed. Map with a split along once crease, but with no loss. Overall a very good copy.
"Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter'. Balfour, a canny lowlander, finds an echo of some wilder and more romantic self in the wilful and courageous Highland spirit of Alan Breck. A strange and difficult friendship is born, as their adventures begin. Kidnapped has become a classic of historical romance the world over and is justly famous as a novel of travel and adventure in the Scottish landscape. Stevenson's vivid descriptive powers were never better than in his account of remote places and dangerous action in the Highlands in the years after Culloden." (Good Reads).
Beinecke 378. Prideaux, pp. 46-48.
HBS 69217.
$1,000. (Inventory #: 69217)