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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Treasure Island. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884.
8vo. Half-title, frontispiece map, 4 wood-engraved by F.T. Merrill; 12pp. publisher’s ads at end. Original pictorial aqua blue cloth (extremities rubbed, some spotting and staining to upper cover, front hinge a bit over-opened after half-title).
FIRST AMERICAN AND FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, second issue with “rain” corrected to “vain” on p. 40, in a rare unrecorded variant color cloth. Considered the “finest tale of maritime adventure that has been told since Defoe produced his great romance” (Prideaux 11). McKay 244.