first edition
1882 · London
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. First edition. Very Good +. A handsome Very Good+ to Near Fine set. Both volumes a bit toned on the spines and a little rubbed on the front boards. Leaf-patterned end papers. A fresh, unrestored set. Complete with half-titles, preliminary ads and a 32 page advertisement at the end of volume 2, dated May 1882. Page 155 of volume 2 misnumbered 55, and with the misprint "Maledroit" on page 179. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case.
New Arabian Nights, the first book by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), compiles his earliest published works of fiction. The eleven short stories – which include Stevenson's classic story cycles "The Rajah's Diamond" and "The Suicide Club," plus his first published short story "A Lodging for the Night" – are compiled here for the first time after appearing previously in literary magazines between 1877 and 1880. The year after publishing New Arabian Nights, Stevenson saw his first major success with the publication of Treasure Island, launching a career marked with such highlights as the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that "The Pavilion on the Links," one of the stories compiled here, "marks the high-water mark of his genius, and is enough in itself, without another line, to give a man a permanent place among the great story-tellers of the race...it is a piece of work of extraordinary merit" (National Review, January 1890). Very Good +. (Inventory #: 6951)
New Arabian Nights, the first book by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), compiles his earliest published works of fiction. The eleven short stories – which include Stevenson's classic story cycles "The Rajah's Diamond" and "The Suicide Club," plus his first published short story "A Lodging for the Night" – are compiled here for the first time after appearing previously in literary magazines between 1877 and 1880. The year after publishing New Arabian Nights, Stevenson saw his first major success with the publication of Treasure Island, launching a career marked with such highlights as the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that "The Pavilion on the Links," one of the stories compiled here, "marks the high-water mark of his genius, and is enough in itself, without another line, to give a man a permanent place among the great story-tellers of the race...it is a piece of work of extraordinary merit" (National Review, January 1890). Very Good +. (Inventory #: 6951)
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