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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis biographical work chronicles the extraordinary life of a celebrated Scottish author, tracing his journey from a sickly...

Robert Louis Stevenson was an influential travel writer, who said "to travel hopefully is better than to arrive". He is best-known for his literary travels in the past, in such...

Author: James Pope HennessyBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, London, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis biography chronicles the fascinating life and literary contributions of the celebrated Scottish...

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At the peak of his literary powers, Robert Louis Stevenson, age 37, sailed on a small hired schooner into the almost uncharted vastness of the Pacific Ocean. There, the ailing...

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The book titled Robert Louis Stevenson: "Kidnapped", "Master of Ballantrae", "Strange by the author Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of Victorian literature's most versatile and celebrated voices comes Memories and Portraits, a rich collection of autobiographical and critical essays that draws...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 First published in 1885, A Child's Garden of Verses has delighted generations of children and adults. All the poems capture...

Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal tale of personality and evil, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's dark work of genius with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 First published in 1885, A Child's Garden of Verses has delighted generations of children and adults. All the poems capture...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Beneath the prim and proper morals of Victorian society lurks a violent madman who emerges at night to commit the...

A unique combination of two classics of 19th century travel writing, one of which (The Amateur Emigrant) is not available in print elsewhere. In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind,...

'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a century ago' - Ian Rankin Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis...

Author: Robert Louis StevensonBinding: HardbackPublished: NELSON DOUBLEDAY, Inc.Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsKidnapped chronicles the perilous adventures of young David Balfour,...

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The book titled In the South Seas: Marquesas, Paumatus and Gilbert Islands by the author Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThis comprehensive poetry collection gathers the full breadth of Robert Louis Stevenson's verse across six distinct works —...

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Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish...

Author: Robert Louis StevensonBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Ebb-Tide is a gripping novella that plunges into the dark...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of 18th-century Scotland in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, Kidnapped chronicles the...

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Set in 18th-century Scotland, this brooding historical romance unfolds amid the Jacobite Rebellion. A struggle between good and evil begins in the old Scottish castle of Durrisdeer - the ancestral...

This is the sparkling record of the haphazard six-thousand-mile odyssey that twenty-five-year-old Stevenson made in pursuit of his future wife, Fanny. The two had met and fallen in love during...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by...

Set sail on an epic adventure to Treasure Island! The fun will last generations with this keepsake volume. Ahoy, me hearties! Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal tale of pirates,...

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'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is unsurpassed' George MacDonald Fraser 'As a writer...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark of Victorian adventure fiction, New Arabian Nights presents a dazzling...

"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of materials on the tale's publication history as well as its relevance to Victorian culture. Twelve of Stevenson's letters from the years 1885-87 are...

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The new paperback series: Penguin English Library '"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"' In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy...

A stunning Puffin 'cloth' Classics deluxe edition of a world-famous story A beautiful hardback edition of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. This lovely edition is part of the highly...

First time in Penguin Classics for this quintessential adventure story The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances...