The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and Quartette London: William Heinemann, 1894.
First British edition, preceded by the American edition by only two months.
Octavo. [viii], 237, [3], 20 pp., including 20 pages of publisher's ads dated August 1894. Original full bronze cloth, spine and front cover stamped in black, publisher's device stamped in black to rear cover. Rubbing and light soiling to extremities, tanning to spine, some bubbling to cloth, both hinges starting but still sound, still a very good copy.
First British edition of The Ebb-Tide, by prominent Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. This classic horror and adventure tale, Stevenson's last complete novel, was published the year he died.
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6037
$
150