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STEVENSON**, ROBERT LOUIS: : TREASURE ISLAND - Illus by Ralph Steadman**

LONDON.HARRAP.LIMITED,1985.

ISBN 0245542663.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Ralph Steadman,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - a small closed tear approx 2/5ths" to top rear edge but with an internal sellotape repair and with concomitant creasing - no other nicks or tears present.Some minor superficial indents/impressions to rear panel - but without penetration and without affecting the board beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt title lettering in Steadman's handwritten style fo front board and bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters with his facsimile signature also,to spine/backstrip,a red+ yellow striped headband and illustrated endpapers - red skull and crossed bones to a glossy black background.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,14-216pp [paginated] includes Pts I-VI (6) comprising 34 chapters,18 full-colour,full page,1 single page,several part-page and other individual thumbnail-size colour illustrations throughout the text and the book - all by Ralph Steadman,red+black handwritten chapter headings and illuminated capitals; plus [unpaginated] red lettered half-title page,double-page colour illustrated title page with red+black lettering, a dedication and note to the hesitant purchaser, an introduction by Steadman with his facsimile signature and year date,double-page contents list/table,a colour Treasure Island map,and individual,lettered titled Pts separator pages. 'Treasure Island was written initially by Robert Louis Stevenson for his stepson Lloyd Osbourne and was originally entitled 'The Sea-Cook'.It was serialized in a magazine between October 1881 and January 1882 before Cassel & Co. published the story in book form in 1883,and was an immediate success.It has never been out of print in some form or other since the first day of its publicaton,and has attracted illustrators from many countries.Ralph Steadman writes in his introduction: 'Everybody,including the respected Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey,is smitten blind with a festering desire for gold.There are no paragons in this story. There is no place for respectability on a creaking wooden ship manned by gentlemen of fortune,hell bent on getting rich quick on a blood-soaked hoard placing them only once removed from the villainous scum who accumulated the wealth on a God-forsaken island in the first place.In fact,the pirates who put it there deserve our respect more than this crowd could generate in a dozen stories. 'So,I didn't go out of my way to look for honour in the faces of the characters: they are as good and as bad as anyone anywhere who finds themselves caught up in the mad scramble for ill-gotten gain and it makes R. L. Stevenson's tale and its telling that much better. . . . Treasure-hunting is a desperate business.' Fully illustrated with 24 colour paintings,this is Ralph Steadman's most brilliant and devastating work to date (then 1985.) Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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