Kidnapped. by STEVENSON, Robert Louis - 1886

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, , 1886. Being Memoirs of the Adventure of David Balfour in the Year 1751. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, black coated endpapers. Folding map frontispiece coloured in outline, 15 pages of publisher's advertisements to rear. Bookplate to front pastedown, tipped-in contemporary inscription of the author's poetry to rear free endpaper. Spine rolled and lightly toned, wear to extremities, slight rubbing to joints of spine, a couple of blemishes to front and rear boards, occasional foxing, short closed tear to foot of map stub. A very good copy. First edition, first issue. The first issue was also bound in green, red and gilt-stamped cloth, with no apparent priority. The first issue has "business" on p. 40, "nine o'clock" on p. 64 and "Long Islands" on p. 101, and publisher's advertisements dated 5G.4.86 & 5B.4.86 (7.86 in the second issue).