Lot 124
[Stevenson (Robert Louis)] The Charity Bazaar, first edition, signed by the author, [1868].
Hammer Price: £2,600
Description
[Stevenson (Robert Louis)] The Charity Bazaar: An Allegorical Dialogue, first edition, second issue with "discovered" on p.1, caption title, 4pp., signed by the author on p. 4, unbound as issued, horizontal folding crease, light creasing to extremities, pencil numbering to foot of p.1, housed in folding chemise with Library of the University of Texas bookplate to inside front flap, in custom red straight-grain morocco pull-tip box, [Pirdeaux II, 2], 4to, [Edinburgh, Privately Printed], [1868].
⁂ Among the rarest of Stevenson items, written by the young author on occasion of a charity bazaar, "Every copy sold at the Bazaar or distributed at the time, was signed" - Prideaux. There are only 2 copies of the first issue recorded.
Description
[Stevenson (Robert Louis)] The Charity Bazaar: An Allegorical Dialogue, first edition, second issue with "discovered" on p.1, caption title, 4pp., signed by the author on p. 4, unbound as issued, horizontal folding crease, light creasing to extremities, pencil numbering to foot of p.1, housed in folding chemise with Library of the University of Texas bookplate to inside front flap, in custom red straight-grain morocco pull-tip box, [Pirdeaux II, 2], 4to, [Edinburgh, Privately Printed], [1868].
⁂ Among the rarest of Stevenson items, written by the young author on occasion of a charity bazaar, "Every copy sold at the Bazaar or distributed at the time, was signed" - Prideaux. There are only 2 copies of the first issue recorded.