Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751
[London]: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-311, [13] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Contemporary half navy morocco over royal blue cloth, the spine in six compartments with gold lettering, top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by C.A. Campling of Great Yarmouth. Illustrated with a color fold-out map. Ahearn Collected Books 4th Edition, 627. ODNB: Mehew, Ernest, "Stevenson, Robert Louis"; Prideaux 47-48. Russell 48. First issue with "business" on p. 40 line 11. Originally serialized in the publication Young Folks' Paper in 1886 and published as a standalone book later that year, Kidnapped is a historical adventure novel set in the years following the Jacobite rising of 1745. A handsome copy of one of Stevenson's best-known and most enduringly popular novels. Very Good. Item #00008933
Two private ownership marks and a contemporary catalog description taped to the first blank leaf. A small, discreet repair to the map and a small chip to the margin of page 205.
Price: $900.00