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Privately Printed Robert Louis Stevenson

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Title: Two Robert Louis Stevenson volumes privately printed for Francis Peabody by the Bibliophile Society
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Description: Includes: Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (Hitherto Unpublished). With Introduction and Notes by George S. Hellman and William P. Trent. 142 pp. * Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings. With Introduction and Notes. Edited by Henry H. Harper. 195 pp. Together, 2 volumes. Frontispieces; facsimile plates. 22.5x18 cm. (9x7"), quarter vellum & boards, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, slipcases.Francis Peabody supplied the manuscripts from which the Bibliophile Society produced the two volumes in a limited edition of 450 copies each, and, in gratitude, the Society "has issued this small complementary edition from the same type forms from which the Bibliophile Edition was printed."
Heading: (Bibliophile Society)Place Published: Chicago
Publisher: Privately Printed for Mr. Francis S. Peabody
Date Published: 1921

Condition

A little shelf wear to slipcases; some sunning to volume spines; near fine to fine.

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Estimate $300 - $500
Starting Bid $150
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Aug 2, 2012
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