RLStevenson
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
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Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
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Father Damien: An Open Letter to th Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu
- £20.00
- Stevenson's famous open letter from 1890 rebutting the claims of Presbyterian minister Charles Hyde that Father Damien (a catholic missionary to Hawaii) was a 'coarse, dirty man' who had contracted leprosy due to 'carelessness'.
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From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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Silver: Return to Treasure Island (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high…
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St. Ives, being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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- An unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British.
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The Beach of Falesá
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- Dylan Thomas's reworking of a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson set in the South Seas.
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The Ebb-tide
- £15.00
- The Ebb-Tide, a short novel published the year of Stevenson's death, is a rollicking seafaring adventure, narrating the voyage of a stolen ship whilst exploring such themes as imperialism, violence, dishonesty, Christianity and corruption.
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson I: 1868-1880 (Scotland, France, California)
- £12.00
- First of the 4-volume edition edited by Sidney Colvin (containing 150 new letters previously unavailable).
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The Light That Failed
- £9.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited…
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The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
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- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
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The Sire de Malétroit’s Door
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- A short story published for the 1st time in this edition - Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Malétroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Malétroit family honour. 145x102mm
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- £15.00
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It is also one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It tells of the commissioning of one…
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Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- £9.00
- Collection of essays, introduced by the author's letter to William Ernest Henley; on Girls and Boys (tr. of title), English Admirals, potraits by Raeburn etc. Orig pub in 1881
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
- Add to basket
-
Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
- Add to basket
-
Father Damien: An Open Letter to th Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu
- £20.00
- Stevenson's famous open letter from 1890 rebutting the claims of Presbyterian minister Charles Hyde that Father Damien (a catholic missionary to Hawaii) was a 'coarse, dirty man' who had contracted leprosy due to 'carelessness'.
- Add to basket
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From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
- Add to basket
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Silver: Return to Treasure Island (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high…
- Add to basket
-
St. Ives, being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
- £15.00
- An unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British.
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The Beach of Falesá
- £20.00
- Dylan Thomas's reworking of a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson set in the South Seas.
- Add to basket
-
The Ebb-tide
- £15.00
- The Ebb-Tide, a short novel published the year of Stevenson's death, is a rollicking seafaring adventure, narrating the voyage of a stolen ship whilst exploring such themes as imperialism, violence, dishonesty, Christianity and corruption.
- Add to basket
-
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson I: 1868-1880 (Scotland, France, California)
- £12.00
- First of the 4-volume edition edited by Sidney Colvin (containing 150 new letters previously unavailable).
- Add to basket
-
The Light That Failed
- £9.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited…
- Add to basket
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The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
- £20.00
- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
- Add to basket
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The Sire de Malétroit’s Door
- £15.00
- A short story published for the 1st time in this edition - Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Malétroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Malétroit family honour. 145x102mm
- Add to basket
-
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- £15.00
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It is also one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It tells of the commissioning of one…
- Add to basket
-
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- £9.00
- Collection of essays, introduced by the author's letter to William Ernest Henley; on Girls and Boys (tr. of title), English Admirals, potraits by Raeburn etc. Orig pub in 1881
- Add to basket