![]() ![]() ![]() Remarkably it attracted little attention, but when it was published in book form as here in November 1883 it attracted a chorus of praise and has never been out of print since. Treasure Island had originally been serialized (under the pseudonym Captain George North) in Young Folks – a weekly children’s magazine – between October 1881 and January 1882. The first edition was issued in various colours of cloth, and with a number of unique issue points as follows: “dead man’s chest” not capitalised on pages 2 or 7, the first letter of “vain” broken in the last line of page 40, the “a” not present in line 6 of page 63, the “8” dropped from the pagination on page 83, etc Gilt faded on spine, mild foxing to preliminary leaves, repair & restoration to upper margin of title page (not affecting text), otherwise a fine bright copy. Half-title, chart frontispiece printed in four colours with tissue guard, 8-page publisher’s catalogue at the end (numbered “5R.1083” and incorrectly listing ‘Treasure Island’ with 304 pages), black-coated endpapers, preserved in felt lined solander box. Original brick-red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. ![]()
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