Lot 134
Stevenson (Robert Louis) and Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrong Box, first American edition, New York, 1889; and 2 others (3)
Hammer Price: £240
Description
Stevenson (Robert Louis) and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box, first American edition, bookplate of William Prescott Watts to front pastedown, New York, 1889; The Wrecker, first edition, frontispiece, plates, light bumping to foot of spine and lower corners, otherwise bright and fine, ?publisher's plain dust-jacket, lower panel torn and creased, graphite rubbing on spine lettering visible, 1892; The Ebb-Tide, light toning to endpapers, spine darkened, bumping and fraying to spine ends and corners, ink stain to lower cover, 1894, original cloth, [Prideaux I, 29, 34 & 40], 8vo (3)
⁂ Stevenson's trio of collaborations with his stepson.
Description
Stevenson (Robert Louis) and Lloyd Osbourne. The Wrong Box, first American edition, bookplate of William Prescott Watts to front pastedown, New York, 1889; The Wrecker, first edition, frontispiece, plates, light bumping to foot of spine and lower corners, otherwise bright and fine, ?publisher's plain dust-jacket, lower panel torn and creased, graphite rubbing on spine lettering visible, 1892; The Ebb-Tide, light toning to endpapers, spine darkened, bumping and fraying to spine ends and corners, ink stain to lower cover, 1894, original cloth, [Prideaux I, 29, 34 & 40], 8vo (3)
⁂ Stevenson's trio of collaborations with his stepson.