STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 : UNDERWOODS. To purchase, call us or e-mail us at quoting stock number 40966 – or simply click on the button Original variant blue cloth a little bruised, darkened and lightly worn a few marks slightly shaken and slack a few leaves roughly opened and slightly nicked and chipped a few internal marks and spots, but a reasonable copy. First edition : the first issue, with the various errors – “nine o’clock” for “twelve o’clock” in the first line of p.64, etc., without the numerals at the foot of the last page of text, and with the advertisements dated April 1886.Ĭrown 8vo (20cm). STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 : KIDNAPPED : BEING MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID BALFOUR IN THE YEAR 1751. This edition contains the superb illustrations of Louis Rhead, which were first published in 1915.UNITED KINGDOM Tel: (+44)-(0)20-8672-2263ĬLICK ON REFRESH/RELOAD TO ENSURE YOU HAVE THE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS PAGE The title then was The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island, but when published in book form in May 1883, the name was simply Treasure Island, a name which has taken its place among the titles of far older classics.
It was in October 1881, that this story began to appear as a serial in an English magazine called Young Folks.
Treasure Island, which appeared when the author was thirty-one, was his first long romance, and it brought to him his first taste of popular success, when the story was published in book form. It was finished in the course of his second visit to Davos in the winter of 1881-1882. It was in 18 that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, which was begun at Braemar, Scotland, where his father aided him with suggestions from his own seafaring experiences.
Suddenly he-the captain, that is-began to pipe up his eternal song:ĭrink and the devil had done for the rest-Īt first I had supposed “the dead man’s chest” to be that identical big box of his upstairs in the front room, and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares with that of the one-legged seafaring man. I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow, and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting far gone in rum, with his arms on the table. If you are in North America, order the hardcover edition, or the paperback edition from !Īlso available in Cornish and in Esperanto. ISBN 978-1-78201-053-1 (paperback), price: €16.95, £15.95, $18.95.Ĭlick on the book cover on the right to order the hardcover edition from .uk!Ĭlick here to order the paperback edition from .uk! Illustrations by Louis Rhead and Frank E.
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