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[STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850–1894)]. The Chap–Book [containing stories and poems: Macaire: Acts I–III; A Winter’s Walk in Carrick and Galloway; The Tramps]. Volumes III, No. 2–3; Volume V, No. 3; Volume VI, No. 1. Chicago: Stone & Kimball; Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1895–96. 4 volumes, 8vo. Woodcut vignette in The Tramps by Stevenson. Original printed wrappers in black and red, uncut and unopened; cloth chemise; half levant slipcase gilt. Provenance: George Barr McCutcheon (1866–1928), bookplates of the American novelist and playwright. FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS of both Macaire and Winter’s Walk in Carrick and Galloway; FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of The Tramps. The Chap–Book was a semimonthly American literary magazine published between 1894 and 1898 that would later merge with the famous literary magazine The Dial. Prideaux 16; 144 (under Contributions to Periodicals, in The Illustrated London News edition); The Tramps not in Prideaux.