£65
FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], vi, [ii], 312. Original slate cloth, front board and spine lettered direct in gilt, publisher’s colophon blocked in blind to rear board. A little soiling towards gutters. Cloth a little scuffed, gutters cracking in several places. Ownership inscription of Charles Cunninghame Graham (younger brother of R.B.), 31 Sloane Gardens, 29 Oct 1897.
Stevenson's penultimate and unfinished novel, completed by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. The story was serialised in the Pall Mall Magazine between November 1896 and November 1897 and the American edition was issued shortly afterward, dated 1897 on the title-page. This British edition is dated the following year and normally assumed to follow the American, but the evidence of this copy's inscription indicates that it was on sale by the end of October 1897.
