Books and Manuscripts

Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First American edition, rare issue in wrappers. 8vo. xi, (i), 324 pp. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece map. Publisher's stiff yellow wrappers, printed in black, scattered soiling and moderate wear, lower spine perished, front hinge torn but sound, small loss in bottom front wrapper corner, faint ownership signature in pencil at top of front wrapper; all edges trimmed; scattered light spotting to text, largely at rear; dampstaining in top edge, pp. 241-246; small pencil scrawl in margins of final page. Not in McKay

First American edition in wrappers of Stevenson's beloved adventure novel. The National Union Catalogue refers to this as a "variant issue in wrappers", utilizing the sheets of the first American edition, but without the terminal leaves of ads found in the cloth issue.

Rare, this is the only copy we can locate at auction via Rare Book Hub in over 100 years.