A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first English edition</a> of the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert+Louis+Stevenson&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>.<ul><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Longmans, Green and Co,&nbsp;1886.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Issue with the “6” in the date on upper wrapper changed by hand from “5,” half-title with list of works on verso, ads for Longman’s Magazine on inner front wrapper, inner back wrapper advertising novels by Whyte-Melville, outer back wrapper advertising The Dynamiter and two works by Bret Harte.</li><li>Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, preserving front and back wrapper.</li></ul> Stevenson’s dark tale of Victorian hypocrisy. Published one day after the New York edition.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | First English Edition

Second edition of the adventure classic Treasure Island.<ul><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Cassell and Company, Limited,&nbsp;1884.</li><li>viii, 292, [8] pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>8 pages of uncut advertisements at rear.</li><li>Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine.</li></ul>

Treasure Island

Limited first edition of Stevenson’s poems.<ul><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish).</li><li>[London]: Privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution to his friends, 1915.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>12 pages.</li><li>Limited edition of 25 numbered copies signed by Clement Shorter.</li><li>Bound in original printed wrappers.</li><li>Housed in a red morocco-backed slipcase.</li></ul>&nbsp;“It has been my good fortune to have had placed in my hands a manuscript volume in R.L.S.’s handwriting. In this scrap book there are many verses afterwards published in 'Underwoods' and some variants in the published poems; there are some fragments of prose and these hitherto unpublished verses, which it will scarcely be denied are admirable examples of Stevenson’s poetical gifts redolent of his love of nature and alive with his gift of song” (Foreword).

Poetical Fragments

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a>, first issue of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=robert%20louis%20stevenson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stevenson</a>'s greatest adventure story.<ul><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish).</li><li>Kidnapped: being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751. </li><li>[London]:&nbsp;Cassell &amp; Company, Limited,&nbsp;1886.</li><li>viii, 311 pages, followed by first state 16-page ad catalogue ("5 G. 4.86" and 5 B. 4.86).&nbsp;</li><li>Fold-out color frontispiece map. </li><li>Original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (issued in multiple colors, there is no priority established), black coated endpapers. </li></ul> "To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man." The story of staid lowlander David Balfour, and noble, hotheaded Alan Breck, thrown together by circumstance and tied together thereafter by the bonds of loyal friendship. Henry James, a good and perceptive reader of Stevenson, famously called Alan Breck "the most perfect character in English literature." Kidnapped is also among the very finest novels in the English language, for children or for anyone else, but James went only so far as to call it "the finest of [Stevenson's] longer stories."

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