But then Stevenson repackaged the story as a book, Treasure Island. 8vo 292 pp.īrowse other first editions novels by Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson chapter summaries, themes, characters. Clean map illustration facing title page with intact tissue guard.

Gift inscription, “ Sibyl Brooke from a Father, New Years Day 1884“on the head of the half title page. His journey leads him to uncover a pirate mutiny. Covers are lightly rubbed with mild wear to extremities. When Jim Hawkins finds the map to a legendary treasure, he embarks on a perilous voyage to claim it. Original sage green cloth boards with faded gilt lettering on the spine.

The story was first serialised under the pseudonym “Captain George North” in Young Folks magazine from October 1881 to January 1882.Ī true first edition, first state with the required 8 pages of advertisements and following points: “dead man’s chest” not capitalised on pages 2 or 7, the first letter of “vain” broken in the last line of page 40, the “a” not present in line 6 of page 63, the “8” dropped from the pagination on page 83, the “7” overstamped in the pagination on page 127, the full stop not present following “opportunity” in line 20 on page 178, with “worse” in line 3 of page 197, and the first advertisments (5R-1083) state October (not July or November as in later states). Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonĪ classic novel from Robert Louis Stevenson that drew positive literary attention on the publication of the novel.

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