Father Damien

San Francisco: William Andrews Clark, 1930. No. 85 of 250 copies privately printed, by John Henry Nash. Vellum-backed tan boards, both books housed in individual compartments in a single slipcase. very good. William Wilke. 2 volumes, being a facsimile of the 1890 Sydney first edition, and a finely printed volume. Illustrated with two frontispiece portraits, one of Father… Saber más sobre este artículo

1890. An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu. London: Chatto and Windus, 1890. Original brown wrappers. First Trade Edition, consisting of 1,000 copies (preceded only by 25 copies issued in Sydney and 30 issued in Edinburgh). On the Stevensons' voyage to the South Pacific they had visited the leper colony on Molokai, founded by Dr.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1897. Narrow 16mo, pp. [12], 29; frontispiece port., title printed in red and black; original cream paper over boards, very good partially unopened copy with dismantled green cardboard slipcase.

Oxford: Howard Wilford Bell, 1901. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 5.5" by 4.5". Not Stated. A limited edition of Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson. A second edition, limited to one thousand copies. This work is a letter about the Catholic Martyr Father Damien which is an impassioned answer to the charges which were held against Father Damien. Robert Louis… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Chatto & Windus, 1914. New impression. hardback. Good, with unclipped d/j (with bumping), cloth boards some fading, gilt spine titling bright, pages tightly bound and unmarked but considerable foxing throughout. . 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Stevenson's famous open letter from 1890 rebutting the claims of Presbyterian minister Charles Hyde that Father Damien… Saber más sobre este artículo

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1897. Softcover. Good. Limited edition. This is number forty-one of fifty copies printed on Japanese Vellum paper. 16mo. 31pp. Front wrapper and preliminary pages detached but present, owner's name penned on front fly, loss of the spine, thus good only with last couple pages unopened on top edges. An Open Letter to the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Sydney: [Privately printed], 1890. First edition, issued (according to Edmund Gosse) in an edition of 25 copies. At head of title: With Mr. R. L. Stevenson's Compliments. 32 pp. With holograph corrections on pp. 7, 13, and 20. 1 vols. 8vo. Original stapled self wrappers. Ink initials at head of title, L. v. F. Old folds, short tear and… Saber más sobre este artículo

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, for William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 2 vols. xxxv; 29p. Ex-library. Two volumes in specially made slipcase. Includes one oversize volume ( 1275" x 9.25") and one smaller (8.4" x 5.7"). Both volumes' spines are soiled. Both contain library stamps, call numbers, bookplate, and card pocket. Text otherwise unmarked.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Charles Scribners Sons, 1916. Hardcover, small hardcover first edition published March 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1890. First Published Ediiton. 30 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original wrappers, slightly chipped at edges. In quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise. First Published Ediiton. 30 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The Sydney edition is the true first (consisting of 25 copies); the Edinburgh (second) edition was limited to 300. This edition was limited to… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. Ink note on front flyleaf: "For Mrs. Anderson with Mr.Cable's Compliments." Front cover detached. Text clean and tight. Original wrappers not bound in.. First Book-form Trade Edition. Contemporary Morocco.

Oxford: Howard Wilford Bell, 1901. cream card covers slightly darkened around spine, some dust-soiling, text and book otherwise clean and sound.. Second Impression. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Boston: Alfred Bartlett: The Cornhill Booklet, 1900. Dated 1900 on the title page. Gray cloth with black lettering. 23 pp. With an Introduction by Edwin Osgood Grover. The boards are faintly stained. The frontispiece tissue guard is missing. Several leaves are chipped from being roughly opened, but no text is affected. In… Saber más sobre este artículo

London / Toronto: The Musson Book Co., N.d. [19??]. Soft cover. Very Good. 12 mo. Pp. [xi], 37. Very light sea-green self wrappers with mounted colour illustration, frontispiece portrait. Very good copy.

London : Chatto & Windus, 1914. New Impression. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 33p. ; 18cm. Subjects: Damien, Father -- Saint -- (1840-1889).

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-11-03. Paperback. Good.

Oxford, England: Howard Wilford Bell, 1901. paper-covered boards. 32mo. paper-covered boards. 78, (2) pages. Limited to 299 copies (McKay 515). Printed for the publisher at the Holywell Press, Oxford. Tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of Stevenson. Black and white portraits in text. Bibliographic history follows text. Covers tanned, spine chipped at edges. Foxing on endpappers.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, circa 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine. Stated third edition. Original stiff wrappers. One of 450 copies. In publisher's card slipcase (broken). Book is fine, some pages uncut.

New York: Cobble Hill Press, 1968. VG+/VG+. Stated first Cobble Hill Presss edition. Very good plus hardcover in very good plus dust jacket. A very clean copy. The book itself is just slightly spine cocked. Clean, unmarked pages. Excellent, clean red boards. Dust jacket is in nice shape with no tears and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Thomas B Mosher. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Clean pages, tight binding, soft. Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson. Fourth edition published by Thomas b Mosher in Portland, ME 1899.Clean pages, tight binding, soft cover clean, dust wrapper with tatter to upper left corner and spine