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London: Chatto and Windus, 1913. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Gilt top edge. 212 pp. Shelf wear. Tight and clean. This is an attractive antique copy of Stevenson's classic travel memoir. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Biographical edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. 295 pages. Dark red embossed cloth, top edge gilt. Condition is Very Good; light bwear to spine ends and edges, one corner bumped, bookplate of Judson Lewis Cross and Florence Isham Cross (with wheat sheaf and 6 stars on black background) on front pastedown, short Xmas gift inscription on ffep dated 1916, text is very clean, binding is tight. STK

CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS. Hardcover. GOOD. 0 9789900249030 1909 RED CLOTH HARDCOVER, FAIR CONDITION, PREV OWNER NAME INSIDE {295 PAGES, HEAVY WEAR TO CORNERS} BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1892.. First edition.. publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth.. A few small stains and light rubbing to cloth; spine sunned.. 8vo,.

Charles Scribner & Sons, 1898. Very Good Hardcover, some fading to spine, part of the "Thistle author's edition" 1898. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover.

London: Chatto & WIndus, 1910. Fine-Paper Edition. Hardcover. g. 12mo. x, 212 pp. Full vellum binding with ornate gilt design on both covers and spine. Pages untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Light foxing to front and back pages. Name of former owner to front page and verso. Light rubbing to cover edges. Head and tail of spine bumped. Letter to the author appearing at start of book with 4-inch rip through pages ix-x (and text), although nothing is missed and page can still be easily read. Bookmarker loose. Overall, in good condition.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, slight lean. Deckled edges,top edge gilt. First printing, no others noted. The middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book describes Stevenson's railroad trip across the U.S. in 1879 along with some other bits of memoir and essays. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: Chatto & Windus 1907., 1907T. hardcover. Good. 1.0236 in x 6.5354 in x 4.2520 in.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. First Edition. Good in dark blue cloth covered beveled boards with gilt text on the spine and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 4 7/8 inches with the cloth worn through at the tips of the boards and beginning to wear and separate at the front joint. The cloth at the head of the spine is worn down to the the upper edge of the text block and there are minor spots of foxing to the rear four pages of text. Without a dust jacket. 317 pages of text. (Gerstley Stevenson Collection, 48)

C. Scribner's, 1895-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Blue hardcover. Dated 1897 by Charles Scribner. Solid spine. Ex-library. No dj.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, published the same year as the first British edition. viii, 317pp., 12pp. Red cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Small contemporary owner's name on title, owner's decorative bookplate on front pastedown, faint stains on cloth with spine ends and corners nicked and worn, a very good copy without dustwrapper as issued.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1892. Corners bevelled. Spine with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Small water spot front cover. Edges and spine extremities show light wear. Book-plate front free endpaper. Peripheral foxing of front endpapers. Internally a very clean copy. 317pp.. First English Edition. Black Cloth. General Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1896.. 8vo. 317 pp. Three Quarter Red Leather on Marbled Boards, Raised Bands, Top Edge Of Text Block Gilt. Marbled endpapers. Former owner's bookplate inside cover. Very Good, minor sunning.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. Thirteenth Edition. Leather bound. Very good. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson in a fine binding by Hatchards of London.. Octavo, viii, [2], 317pp. Three-quarter black morocco, thin gilt trim to covers. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine. Blue cloth boards. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Bound by Hatchards in Piccadilly. Stated "Thirteenth Edition" on title page. Solid text block, professional restoration to front hinge for stabilization. Light rubbing to corners, faint toning to edges of covers.

1892. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First Edition (English -- published on the same day as the American). This volume consists largely of Stevenson's thoughts as he journeyed by train in 1879 from New York to San Francisco, in pursuit of the American woman he had recently met on the Continent (and who was to become his wife). Also included are his subsequent impressions of the city of Monterey. This is a near-fine copy (endpapers cracking, but scarcely any other wear); the front paste-down bears the small leather bookplate of Clara & Irwin Strasburger. Beinecke 546; Princeton 48.