8vo. Frontispiece by Walter Crane. Half title Publisher's light blue cloth gilt (rubbing, spotting to endpapers).
 
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST REGULARLY-PUBLISHED BOOK. A pioneering work of outdoor literature which Stevenson wrote to fund his desire to be financially independent from his parents as well as to pursue a woman with whom he was madly in love and would later marry. Beinecke 12; Prideux 1.