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Hardcover. Condition: VG Minus. Very good minus bound in Hawaiian styled cloth by the Heritage Press. No slipcase - no makrings, slight wear around edges.
Published by New York: The Heritage Press, 1956
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. Two-color illustrations. Fine condition. 130 pages.
Published by Heritage Press, New York, 1956
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sheets, Millard (illustrator). xx, 128 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. "First appeared [under title Uma] in six successive weekly issues of the Illustrated London News, 2 July-6 August, 1892. The text was bowdlerized, and the present printing represents the story exactly as R.L.S. wrote it"- Colophon. With illustrations by Millard Sheets. Size: 4to.
Published by The Heritage Press, New York, 1956
Seller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover in Slipcase. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Illustrations by Millard Sheets (illustrator).
Published by The Heritage Press, 1956
Seller: Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Millard Sheets (illustrator). A very good copy of the Heritage Press hard cover edition, slipcased, lacking the Sanglass pamphlet. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine. Binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no evident wear. Slipcase is in very good condition, with minor wear at the extremities, but no splitting at the seams. A sharp copy. [Please note: Due to the size and weight of the volume extra shipping may be required depending on the destination and speed of delivery requested. Quotations gladly provided.].
Published by william sloane associates
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
hardcover (ex libris); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Seller: Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
London, 1952. 478 pp. 26 plates. Hardcover.
Published by The Limited Editions Club / The Ward Ritchie Press, 1956
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Large Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited edition, #1059 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Lacks slipcase. Abrasion to base of front board, otherwise an excellent copy. 1956 Large Hardcover. xv, [3], 113, [5] pp. Numerous illustrations by Millard Sheets throughout, with an introduction by J.C. Furnas. "The Beach of Falesa" is a short story by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in the Illustrated London News in 1892, and later published in book form in the short-story collection Island Nights' Entertainments (1893). It was written after Stevenson moved to the South Seas island of Samoa just a few years before he died there. Stevenson saw "The Beach of Falesá" as the ground-breaking work in his turn away from romanticism to realism. Stevenson wrote to his friend Sidney Colvin: "It is the first realistic South Seas story; I mean with real South Sea character and details of life. Everybody else that has tried, that I have seen, got carried away by the romance, and ended in a kind of sugar candy sham epic, and the whole effect was lost - there was not etching, no human grin, consequently no conviction. Now I have got the smell and look of the thing a good deal. You will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library." In an unusual change for Stevenson, but in-line with realism, the plot of the story is less important, rather the realistic portrayal of the manners of various social classes in island society is foregrounded; it is essentially a novel of manners. As Stevenson says to Colvin in a letter, "The Beach of Falesá" is "well fed with facts" and "true to the manners' of the society it depicts." Other than the island itself which is fictional, it contains the names of real people, real ships and real buildings which Stevenson was familiar with from his personal travels in the South Seas. "The Beach of Falesá", along with his two other South Seas tales in Island Nights' Entertainments, were generally poorly received by his peers in London. Stevenson was known and loved for his historical romances such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Master of Ballantrae and so his shift to realism was not widely applauded. Oscar Wilde complained "I see that romantic surroundings [Samoa] are the worst surroundings possible for a romantic writer. In Gower Street Stevenson could have written a new Trois Mousquetaires. In Samoa he wrote letters to The Times about Germans." Edmund Gosse wrote "The fact seems to be that it is very nice to live in Samoa, but not healthy to write there." Modern scholarship and the reflection of time has been more kind to Stevenson's late works. What his critics could not see or know at the time is that modernism was just around the corner and Stevenson had begun to experiment with early forms, along with a critique of the European colonial venture (post-colonialism), something most people in the 1890s were not interested in hearing, but within a decade or so, such as with Joseph Conrad, would become fashionable. Signed by illustrator.
Published by Heritage Press, 1956
Seller: The Book Shelf, Bismarck, ND, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Millard Sheets (illustrator). DESCRIPTION: This 130 page illustrated tale of the south Pacific contains an Introduction, A Note on the Name, 5 chapters, and also 34 drawings in various tones of sienna, gray, brown, blue, and green. * Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist and poet. He wrote classics such as Kidnapped, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Child's Garden of Verses, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Treasure Island. * Inserted at the front of this Volume is a copy of the Sandglass, # I X:22, a four page folded pamphlet from the Heritage Press. * CONDITION: The book cover is very attractive with its pattern and the box is in good or better condition but does show wear on the corner edges and a very minor loss of surface material on the back.
Published by FABER AND FABER LIMITED, London, 1952
Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: CHIPPED AND FRAYED ( GOOD). 1st Edition. DJ, PRICE CLIPPED.
Published by Eveleigh Nash and Grayson, London, 1926
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. London: Eveleigh Nash and Grayson, [ca. 1926]. Reprint. William Safire's ownership signature to front pastedown, under which he has written "see xii 'fire in the belly' coinage?' Octavo. 356 pp. Red pebbled morocco ruled in gilt with gilt lettering to spine; all edges gilt. Typed letter signed from J.C. Furnas to William Safire laid in at front. Furnas notes his pleasure to hear that Safire's brother, Len, is a "sound Stevensonian," as was noted in Safire's February 27th, 1983 column "On Language: Right Stuff In The Bully Pulpit." Included here is the Furnas' pamphlet "Stevenson and Exile" from his 1981 address at Edinburgh University. Additionally laid in is Len Safire's draft response to Furnas, with heavy editing in red pen, thanking him for his note and kind words. In his February 27th column, Safire thanks his brother for steering him to the alleged earliest reference to "fire in the belly" by Stevenson in the preface to the this volume. Boards a bit roughly worn along edges and rear board recently reattached. Binding sound and, other than Safire's ownership inscription and brief note, pages unmarked.