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[CALIFORNIA]. STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850–1894). The Silverado Squatters. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883.
8vo. Sepia tone engraved frontispiece by Strong; 32pp. publisher’s catalogue at end dated October 1883. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in brown and gilt, gilt–lettered spine (small stain to front joint, hinges cracked and starting). Provenance: Augustine Birrell (bookplate); H.C. Drayton (bookplate).
FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the word “His” omitted on next to last line of p. 140 and ads dated October 1883. Stevenson’s travel memoir of Napa Valley, California in the summer of 1880 with his wife and son–in–law, Lloyd Osbourne. Beinecke 231; Howes S980; Prideaux 9; Zamorano Eighty 71.