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	1	Stevenson, Robert Louis A Child's Garden of Verses New York Heritage Press 1944 First Decorative Cloth Fine Fine Heritage Press by permission of Limited Editions Club 1944. Fine in a fine unclipped dustjacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering and illustrated decorations to front panel. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Original $3.00 price still on dustjacket flap. Excellent color and B&W illustrations throughout. Stained endpapers all around. A very collectable Heritage Press edition of RLS classic--protected in Brodart and in fantastic condition. 112 pp. Includes chapters "A Child's Garden of Verses", "The Child Alone", "Garden Days", and "Envoys". Introduction by RLS. Price: 100.00 USD
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	2	Stevenson, Robert Louis Child's Garden of Verses (1st Edition) London John Lane 1896 First Illustrated British Edition Cloth Fine No Jacket Issued Charles Robinson First Illustrated Edition. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Octavo. Green Cloth finely ribbed. Titles and extensive decorations in gilt to front and rear boards and spine. All edges gilt. Fine unblemished condition. From the collection of M.B. Goldstone, recently auctioned and with the auction tag tipped in. Goldstone, along with his brother Adrian Homer Goldstone, (Steinbeck bibliographer) were well known collectors of 19th and 20th Century fiction. Fine with no interior markings. 136 numbered pages plus an additional 16 pages of advertisements from the publisher-- John Lane. A great collectable copy. Price: 275.00 USD
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	3	Stevenson, Robert Louis David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures At Home And Abroad New York Scribner's 1893 First American Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket Issued First American Edition--First Printing. From the collection of M. B. Goldstone with his beautiful gold bookplate lightly attached to the front pastedown and his name signed in pencil with notations to the front endpaper. Goldstone and brother Adrian (Steinbeck's bibliographer) were great collectors of 19th and early 20th Century fiction. This copy is in dark tan cloth with dark brown and silver decorations and lettering to the front board. Spine is decorated in same with gold gilt lettering. A handsome copy slightly dust soiled at page ends and with a slightly darkened cloth spine with tiny specks of splashes at the heel. Original owners name in ink and dated 1894 on front free endpaper. Otherwise a tight and sturdy copy with a strong hinge and binding. A very collectable copy. Price: 345.00 USD
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	4	Stevenson, Robert Louis Prayers London Chatto & Windus 1910 First Edition Goatskin Very Good No Jacket "When he was happy he felt impelled to offer thanks for that undeserved joy"---Mrs. Stevenson in the opening introduction--talking about R.L.S. From the recent Bonham's and Butterfield's auction of the M.B. Goldstone collection. With the Goldstone gold custom bookplate attached to the front pastedown. Fifth Impression so stated on the copyright page. An unusual copy of this title, as it does not contain the Alberto Sangorski illustrations found in earlier copies. Fifth impression published same year as first impression. Goatskin morocco leather with gilt decorations to front board. There are many different variations on the covering used, but rare to find this wonderful little prayer book without the Sangorski decorations. Edgewear to the spine and corners. Loosening to the front hinge. Original silk ribbon is still included--although no longer attached to the spine. Would be a treasure rebound. M. B. Goldstone's personal copy. Price: 225.00 USD
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	5	Stevenson, Robert Louis The Wrong Box New York Scribner's 1889 First American Printing Cloth Very Good No Jacket Issued First American Printing. From the collection of M. B. Goldstone---with his penciled signature to the front pastedown and "1st edition" notations also in pencil. This being of the olive green variant cover with yellow paper label to upper front board--with black lettering. Gilt lettering to the spine. At least two variants are known with no one color taking first issue rights above the other. Co-authored by Stevenson's son-in-law Lloyd Osbourne. One of the original fictionalized detective stories--and a good one with a well thought out plot. A very good copy with some dustiness to the page edges, mild edgewear at the extremeties (mostly head and heel of the spine and corners). The gilt lettering to the spine is about half way faded. 244 pp and 4 pp adv. This copy has Scribner's original "patch" of newpaper clipping attached to the bottom center of the front board--which most buyers took to be a defect and tried to peel off. The story centers around an insurance scheme where the last surviving members are guaranteed a fortune--and two brothers are scheming to be the one who inherits the fortune. Price: 140.00 USD
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	6	Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island New York Limited Editions Club 1941 First Blue Denim Cloth Fine Slipcased Wilson, Edward A handsome fine copy--number 1,040 of only 1,500 produced for the Limited Editions Club on flexible blue denim cloth with burgundy and gilt paper label to the spine. Just slightly faded spine--age toned--otherwise a very fine copy. Printed on custom paper with illustrations by Edward Wilson, including a signed lithograph of "The Captain". Uncut foredge papers. Custom made throughout. Yellow slipcase is water stained on the front edge and has minor edgewear---Very Good- only. Price: 135.00 USD
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