unclipped dust wrapper with heavily foxed and a little darkened panels
Unlike the standard edition which was bound in quarter white parchment with red paper boards patterned in gold
with a plot concerning a virus that kills off grass species
Counselor Ayres' Memorial by Machado de Assis
Bound by Real Lachenmaier in quarter green buckram
Treasure Island Agatha Christie unclipped dust wrapper with heavilyTreasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1894. Reprint, fifty second thousand. Illustrated edition. Hardcover. Octavo (185 x 125 x 30 mm.). Pp. viii, 292 pp, plus 20 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Publisher's original decorative blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, patterned endpapers, illustrated with numerous engraved plates. Acceptable copy only, with front free endpaper and plate opposite